ADRecon VS ScoutSuite

Compare ADRecon vs ScoutSuite and see what are their differences.

ADRecon

ADRecon is a tool which gathers information about the Active Directory and generates a report which can provide a holistic picture of the current state of the target AD environment. (by adrecon)

ScoutSuite

Multi-Cloud Security Auditing Tool (by nccgroup)
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ADRecon ScoutSuite
4 24
608 6,176
5.3% 2.3%
2.1 4.9
3 months ago 8 days ago
PowerShell Python
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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ADRecon

Posts with mentions or reviews of ADRecon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-02.
  • Creating a jump host in 2023
    6 projects | /r/sysadmin | 2 Jan 2023
    If you're planning to use Active Directory and/or Azure AD, run ADRecon/AzureADRecon and Bloodhound frequently and review in depth. Run ScoutSuite frequently and review as part of a normal operational cycle (e.g., at weekly team meetings make the results available and set aside 15 minutes to discuss and make assignments). Look critically at where these three tools overlap within two or three degrees of separation from your jump hosts (e.g., hosts/nodes that are one or two devices away and users/security groups that are one or two devices away) for help prioritizing when you have too many high-risk/high-impact items to look through.
  • As IT, is it possible to track Dell or Lenovo units?
    1 project | /r/sysadmin | 10 Dec 2022
  • Free range internal pen testing
    2 projects | /r/Pentesting | 22 Jul 2022
    You can run ADRecon to create an Excel report with all AD objects like users, groups, computers etc. Very useful to get an overview of you AD. Especially inspect the Excel tab "users" and go through the columns "info" and "description". Many companies store cleartext credentials or initial passwords in these fields. Those fields can be read by any authenticated AD user and is not a great place to put sensitive data
  • Active Directory Audit - PingCastle?
    4 projects | /r/sysadmin | 3 Jul 2021

ScoutSuite

Posts with mentions or reviews of ScoutSuite. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-31.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ADRecon and ScoutSuite you can also consider the following projects:

BloodHound - Six Degrees of Domain Admin

prowler - Prowler is an Open Source Security tool for AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes to do security assessments, audits, incident response, compliance, continuous monitoring, hardening and forensics readiness. Includes CIS, NIST 800, NIST CSF, CISA, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, FFIEC, SOC2, GXP, Well-Architected Security, ENS and more

DSInternals - Directory Services Internals (DSInternals) PowerShell Module and Framework

cloudsploit - Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

PowerSploit - PowerSploit - A PowerShell Post-Exploitation Framework

Scout2 - Security auditing tool for AWS environments

AzureADRecon - AzureADRecon is a tool which gathers information about the Azure Active Directory and generates a report which can provide a holistic picture of the current state of the target environment.

pacu - The AWS exploitation framework, designed for testing the security of Amazon Web Services environments.

Wazuh - Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.

kubestriker - A Blazing fast Security Auditing tool for Kubernetes

cloud-custodian - Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources

cloudmapper - CloudMapper helps you analyze your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.