We performed a comparison between Pentera and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tenable, Wiz, SentinelOne and others in Vulnerability Management."Maybe there are some remediation steps on the website, we can mask sensitive information on the website better."
"The most valuable feature of Pentera is that you can do continuous vulnerability assessment, which is automated."
"The product is easy to use."
"The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"What I like the most about Pentera is its solution-oriented approach."
"The most valuable feature is that this solution is very lightweight."
"The most valuable feature is the connection of threat intelligence information with identified vulnerabilities, which means you can prioritize vulnerabilities according to actual attacks."
"They also have threat detection which maps threats. There is a feed that comes from Qualys when a new vulnerability is found. It tells us which machines are infected with that vulnerability."
"The Vulnerability Management and Patch Management features are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It's stable and quite reliable."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the external channel."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability detection and the scanning capability to enable identification of vulnerabilities across our network."
"The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"There is room for improvement in virtualization compatibility."
"The price could be improved."
"Maybe scalability. I know that the Pentera right now is high level in order to scan big deals over 500 IPs and not less, and not less. That can be more granular. This will be useful."
"Pentera's general dashboards could be improved and made more specific in terms of vulnerabilities that I'm discovering."
"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."
"The reporting and the GUI need improvements."
"The ability to manage user accounts and give rights to the operator to know about abnormalities of applications is something that needs improvement."
"It's too early for me to say if there is any room for improvement since we're in the first couple of months of using this solution."
"We are moving away from Qualys to Defender ATP because I find that Defender ATP is much better at prioritizing the vulnerabilities that I should be looking at."
"Qualys should improve their customer experience. They need to improve the tech support experience and the turnaround time."
"Qualys could be improved in its overall performance compared to other vulnerability management or scanning tools."
"Qualys could improve the inbuilt dashboards."
Pentera is ranked 12th in Vulnerability Management with 5 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Pentera is rated 8.2, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Pentera writes "A stable solution that can be used to do continuous and automated vulnerability assessments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Pentera is most compared with Cymulate, Tenable Nessus, Picus Security, Horizon3.ai and XM Cyber, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.
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