We performed a comparison between Qualys VMDR and Tenable Security Center 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 most valuable feature is the ability to run different capabilities with the same agent. With only one agent, we can have EDR, vulnerability management, compliance and some basic SaaS security capabilities."
"This solution gives us insight into our environment and improves our security. It helps us to maintain a good patching system whereby we know that XYZ is vulnerable within the system."
"What I like about Qualys VM is the dashboard presentation. It's very good."
"The most valuable feature is the certificate management."
"The initial setup was good. We didn't have any problems with it."
"It's very configurable to adjust impact to systems."
"Qualys VM has allowed us to know the vulnerabilities we need to prioritize based on the threat levels and the possible impact if there's an intrusion."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Compliance and vulnerability scans are most valuable. Compliance scan helps in validating how our teams are complying, and vulnerability scan helps in future-proofing. Its vulnerability detection is accurate."
"The solution is one of the most, if not the most, stable product available."
"The initial setup process is simple."
"Tenable's most valuable features are the credential scan, vulnerability reports, and vulnerability ratings (VPR)."
"The solution is completely stable and operation is user-friendly."
"The scanning part, the agent part – that's the valuable aspect."
"Tenable Security Center scans networks and gives reports."
"Initial setup was pretty straightforward."
"Qualys could improve the inbuilt dashboards."
"I would like to have CSPM, a continuous scan-like cloud added to the solution."
"There seems to be a lack of easy onboarding into Qualys."
"What we have found is that the solution is not closely tied with the patch management. It is okay with newer ones, like Windows 10 machines; it gives the correct patch. But for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008, it does not give us the correct patch so we have to manually identify the patches. This is a major problem."
"Qualys Container Security can improve the interface. It could be easier to navigate and be enriched."
"The disadvantage of working with Qualys is that the graphical interface is quite outdated."
"Sometimes the scanning can get overwhelmed and start to drag when a lot of users are trying to scan at once."
"Integration could be better. When you think about scanning, it's not used just with this product alone but with other Qualys products. If you think about the bundle, the product itself is good. But integration with other products and packages has space for improvement. They should also offer a better price for bundles."
"Current web page needs improvement, slows down processes."
"The solution should include compliance-based scanning."
"Tenable's reporting engine needs improvement. It needs to be more efficient and add more features."
"The solution is expensive."
"We would like to see the inclusion of external IPs and simplified reporting that's easier to deal with"
"Tenable SC could be improved with additional connectivity to external company postures and the capability of managing and sustaining agents in the systems directly without additional platforms in the middle."
"Certain aspects require manual effort, such as exporting and analyzing data for our dashboards. The built-in components of the Tenable solution are somewhat clumsy that require external tools. So, this is an area of improvement."
"The biggest issue I have with the solution is when I'm using the scanning it picks up the original DNS of that device. That means, before we image it and actually change the DNS to something within our company structure, it'll just be random numbers and letters and Tenable will stick to that DNS for a long time."
Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews while Tenable Security Center is ranked 1st in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 48 reviews. Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2, while Tenable Security Center is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Security Center writes "A security solution for vulnerability assessment with automated scans". Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Tanium, whereas Tenable Security Center is most compared with Tenable Vulnerability Management, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Nessus, Horizon3.ai and Tanium. See our Qualys VMDR vs. Tenable Security Center report.
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