Metasploit

Q: What is Metasploit?

Metasploit is an open-source penetration testing framework used to develop, test, and execute exploits for security assessment.

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What we add

Topic graph

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Cybersecurity https://decisioninsights.ai/term/cybersecurity/ Exploit https://decisioninsights.ai/term/exploit/ Monitoring https://decisioninsights.ai/term/monitoring/ and 3 more

Counted facts

A protocol or open source project keeps no vendor list and publishes no figures of its own to check this against. This counts how it actually shows up across the graph -- articles that name it, the organizations named alongside it in those articles, similar projects, and organizations whose topic tags overlap with its own -- computed, not curated.

Related projects OSSEC, MITRE Caldera, MITRE ATT&CK, Snyk, Snort, Software Discovery Tool, Locust, OpenSwitch Related organizations Arbitrary Execution, CYE, Hut Six, Odyssey Cybersecurity, Ridge Security, watchTowr, Horizon3.ai, intrigue (Security Services)