[ Thanks to Naomi
Graychase for this link. ]
“The open source Metasploit framework is often the
place where security vulnerabilities become usable enabling
security researchers to test out exploits and fix flaws. Until
recently, Metasploit was typically used only as a standalone
community project, but that’s no longer the case.“Metasploit is now owned by security firm Rapid7, the company
that also integrates Metasploit into their testing tools. This
week, security testing firm Core Security announced that they would
be integrating support for Metasploit into their Core IMPACT Pro
application. Evaluating the impact of the enterprise tool
integration of Metasploit depends on a number of factors. It’s also
not clear whether or not the open source community aspect of
Metasploit will enjoy any benefits as a result either.“”Metasploit itself won’t provide anything that our customers
didn’t have access to before as the framework itself was always
available to them,” Fred Pinkett, vice president of product
management at Core Security, told InternetNews.com. “But, the
important thing is that what it will provide, as a result of the
integration, increased ease-of-use for our customers who want to
use the two products side-by-side through the IMPACT Pro
interface.””