We performed a comparison between GitLab and Qualys Web Application Scanning based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."As a developer, this solution is useful as a repository holder because most of the POC projects that we have are on GitLab."
"The merging feature makes it easy later on for the deployment."
"GitLab's best features are continuous integration and fast deployment."
"The SaaS setup is impressive, and it has DAST solutioning."
"This product is always evolving, and they listen to the customers."
"I find the features and version control history to be most valuable for our development workflow. These aspects provide us with a clear view of changes and help us manage requests efficiently."
"GitLab integrates well with other platforms."
"It is very flexible and easy because you can store data on cloud."
"The vulnerability management feature is a strong one. And also the patch management feature."
"You can integrate your Burp Suite results and create an integrated report. Also, the way it shows the results - threats and exploit details - makes remediation very easy."
"Licensing is the most valuable. Qualys provides the best licensing for companies. It is the best product for the development purposes of web applications. The product has a lot of integrations."
"The interface is user-friendly and easy to understand."
"I have found the detection of vulnerabilities tool thorough with good results and the graphical display output to be wonderful and full of colors. It allows many types of outputs, such as bar and chart previews."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the progressive scan. It is good. It's done in 24 hours."
"The Qualys Web Application Scanning solution offers a single comprehensive console and consolidated reporting, covering all aspects from on-prem to cloud and compliance, etcetera."
"Its most valuable features are patch management, vulnerability management, and PCI compliance."
"Some of the scripts that we encountered in GitLab were not fully functional and threw up errors."
"I would like more Agile features in the Premium version. The Premium version should have all Agile features that exist in the Ultimate version. IBM AOM has a complete Agile implementation, but in GitLab, you only have these features if you buy the Ultimate version. It would be good if we can use these in the Premium version."
"The price of GitLab could improve, it is high."
"GitLab could add a plugin to integrate with Kubernetes stuff."
"There was a problem with the build environment when we were looking at developing iOS applications. iOS build require Mac machines and there are no Mac machines provided by GitLab in their cloud. So to build for mobile iOS application, we needed to use our own Mac machine within our own infrastructure. If GitLab were to provide a feature such that an iOS application could also be built through GitLab directly, that would be great."
"In the free version, when a merge request is raised, there is no way to enforce certain rules. We can't enforce that this merge request must be reviewed or approved by two or three people in the team before it is pushed to the master branch. That's why we are exploring using some agents."
"GitLab's Windows version is yet not available and having this would be an improvement."
"We have only seen a couple of issues on Gitlab, which we use for building some of the applications."
"The UI is not user-friendly and you don't have a yearly reporting facility where you can slice and dice in different jobs."
"The solution needs to adjust its pricing. They should make it more affordable."
"In certain cases, this product does have false positives, which the company should work on."
"The scanner reports a lot of false positives, which is something that needs to be improved."
"There should be better visibility into the application."
"Qualys Web Application Scanning is very complex to use, and its graphical interface is not very user-friendly."
"We receive false positives sometimes when using a solution that could be improved. However, the technical team provides us with the exact explanation why it was giving us that kind of error."
"They should try to include business logic vulnerabilities in the scanner testing."
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GitLab is ranked 6th in Application Security Tools with 70 reviews while Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 19th in Application Security Tools with 31 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys Web Application Scanning writes "A stable solution that can be used for infrastructure vulnerability scanning and web application scanning". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Fortify Application Defender. See our GitLab vs. Qualys Web Application Scanning report.
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