We performed a comparison between Contrast Security Protect 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."The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"We can do scanning and submit reports straight to the customers when there are new vulnerabilities, then tell them whether they are affected or not."
"It works with many different products."
"The most valuable feature of Qualys Web Application Scanning is the effective scanning that can be done."
"By using QualysGuard, we are able to finish external scans with assured results in half the time."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Qualys' process of updating signatures is something we really appreciate, and it's way ahead of its industry peers."
"This product is designed for easy scalability and can easily scale up without major challenges."
"The most valuable feature is that we are able to scan the services and put credentials like a user ID password. We can verify the vulnerability level."
"Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"The scanner reports a lot of false positives, which is something that needs to be improved."
"There should be better visibility into the application."
"The product should allow users to upload their payloads."
"The product's pricing could be better."
"In terms of the Policy Compliance model which they currently have, not all the platforms are being covered. If they could improve on the Policy Compliance model, since there are policies which are benchmarked against it, this will be helpful for us."
"When comparing this solution to Veracode, Veracode has good interactive features and gives a clear understanding of what the vulnerabilities are, which error line of the vulnerability is on and what can be done. It gives interactive features, whereas this solution does not give a clear understanding of where or how to fix the problem."
"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."
"The support could be faster."
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Contrast Security Protect is ranked 32nd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews while Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 18th in Application Security Tools with 31 reviews. Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4, while Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Contrast Security Protect writes "It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks". 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". Contrast Security Protect is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Snyk, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning and Sonatype Lifecycle, whereas Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Fortify WebInspect. See our Contrast Security Protect vs. Qualys Web Application Scanning report.
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