We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Risk-Based Vulnerability Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product's stability is very high...The scalability of the product is amazing."
"The solution is up-to-date and helps prevent zero-day attacks."
"One valuable feature is the Microsoft Security Scorecard."
"The solution helps identify threats and vulnerabilities."
"The product’s most valuable features are compliance, recommendations, and inventories."
"It's really beneficial for scanning and interacting with the agent."
"There are fewer false positives when using this solution."
"The most valuable feature is the certificate management."
"Great web application security for scanning."
"The process of defining and discovering scans is organized efficiently."
"The initial setup was good. We didn't have any problems with it."
"Qualys VM is very stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the external channel."
"It is challenging to extract and customize reports from the system."
"The technical support takes too much time to resolve tickets."
"Integration can be improved."
"The setup phase of the product is not that easy and needs a person to have a certain level of expertise."
"The general support could be improved."
"It's not very user-friendly at times and requires in-depth understanding. So, a layman or someone new to Qualys won't be able to easily understand it. You need education to use the solution."
"It is a struggle to be able to pull our report and to be able to do onboarding using automated tools."
"The reporting in this solution can be improved."
"When you want to cover yourself for scalability, you will be charged for the number you place on the scan itself."
"I would like to see more accuracy in detections, better reporting capabilities, and better dashboard download capabilities."
"The IoT scan is not great."
"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."
"Sometimes the scanning can get overwhelmed and start to drag when a lot of users are trying to scan at once."
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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is ranked 8th in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 5 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is rated 8.2, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management writes "The vulnerability assessment is very accurate because it runs directly into the vulnerability database". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Tanium. See our Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management vs. Qualys VMDR report.
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