We performed a comparison between Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7 and others in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management."The risk context of any vulnerability is a valuable feature."
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"Qualys VM's most valuable feature is automatic detection."
"It's really beneficial for scanning and interacting with the agent."
"There are fewer false positives when using this solution."
"Qualys VM is very stable."
"Performs automated, regular scans in the network."
"What I like about Qualys VM is the dashboard presentation. It's very good."
"Monitors workstations and servers for vulnerabilities and creates reports."
"The reporting functionality is great."
"An improvement would be some sort of an integration with any GRC suite."
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"Qualys VMDR is basically susceptible to false positives, and false negatives."
"When you want to cover yourself for scalability, you will be charged for the number you place on the scan itself."
"It would be nice to have an all-in-one solution that was automated and could handle the scanning and reports as well as the patching and updating."
"Reports were lacking somewhat on the customization side."
"It is a struggle to be able to pull our report and to be able to do onboarding using automated tools."
"The disadvantage of working with Qualys is that the graphical interface is quite outdated."
"The reporting and dashboards could improve in Qualys VM. However, they have improved since the previous versions."
"Qualys could be improved in its overall performance compared to other vulnerability management or scanning tools."
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Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) is ranked 12th in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) is rated 8.0, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) writes "Offers contextual prioritization and risk-based remediation of vulnerability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) is most compared with Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Ivanti Neurons for RBVM, Brinqa and Avalor, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management.
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