We performed a comparison between Darktrace and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, TitanHQ and others in Email Security."It gives us visibility into threats and, for endpoints, it helps us to prioritize threats. We used to have a lack of visibility, but now our time to detect and respond has decreased."
"The deployment capability is a great feature."
"The product's scalability is good."
"The most valuable feature is protection against malicious links, fishing, and impersonation. You can train people to be aware of these threats, but they're not always careful. When they're using their phones between meetings, they click on a link, and it's game over."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable feature is its performance."
"Defender enables us to secure all 365-related activity from a single place. It gives us visibility into everything happening in Outlook, protecting us against phishing and other email-based threats. Defender helps us detect any suspicious behaviors."
"I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"The most valuable feature is the integration. It's a single console, so we don't have to switch around between multiple products. Another valuable feature is the ease of operations and maintenance."
"Darktrace's most valuable features are that it understands the network environment and is able to trace the traffic and alert on anomalies."
"I am impressed with the product's ability to give insights into network traffic."
"The most valuable feature has been the behavioral analytics that allows us to monitor all the traffic."
"I find the complete portfolio to be excellent."
"We allow customers to access our Wi-Fi as guests, and some of them were going to restricted sites. Darktrace showed us what they were doing so we could block them."
"A simple, powerful AI solution that just does all the work for you when you turn it on."
"It provides a comprehensive, detailed view of network activity and whatever is happening inside it."
"t was pretty as far as the granularity of what you were getting out of it."
"I am impressed with the VMDR feature."
"The most valuable feature is the certificate management."
"Qualys VM's most valuable feature is automatic detection."
"The reporting functionality is great."
"This is one of the best products I have worked with so far. I like the power of Qualys, and it's a better solution because you can scan a compact file, a BIT file, or batch files. The product already knows what's happening inside, and you don't need to expand the package. Tenable will do the same thing, but you need to have a package issuance claim. With Qualys, we can immediately understand the file, even a compact file. If there's some kind of discovery or incident, you will know what happened in the environment."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability detection and the scanning capability to enable identification of vulnerabilities across our network."
"The features that are most valuable are the identification, scan features, and the identification of vulnerabilities."
"I like Qualys because it is a very complete product, more so than Tenable."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"We need to be able to whitelist data at the backend."
"Configuration requires going to a lot of places rather than just accessing one tab."
"There needs to be an improvement in integrating the product to work across multiple operating systems, and to have better support for non-Microsoft file types."
"In some situations, it has not been able to pick impersonated emails having no attachments. Technical support definitely has a scope for improvement."
"Too many false positives and lacks an accurate capability to detect malicious SharePoint sites."
"This product's effectiveness could be improved, in terms of detecting unwanted spam or even malware between the emails, compared to other products."
"About eight months ago, we started to measure the quantity of phishing and spam that we have been receiving, and it has been increasing a lot. That means that protection for our email is not as good as we were expecting."
"There aren't so many third-party vendor platforms natively integrated with the platform."
"In the next version, I'd like to see penetration testing."
"Darktrace is a closed technology, meaning we know very little about how it works, including the architecture, which is significant. As a result, when we implement the system and find we're getting many false positives, we have minimal insight into why it's happening and what we can do to fix it. We don't know how the solution is configured, the criteria for threats to be determined, or the product's inner workings. We understand that they have to ensure privacy and their copyright, but we want to see some documentation or public research into the security Darktrace provides."
"It is expensive, but everything else has been great so far."
"Getting logs from different sources can be a challenge."
"We'd like threat hunting, and we'd like to see a global solution that can automate vulnerability scans. I know it is something they are working on."
"Darktrace needs to automate the reports of false positives, botnets and everything."
"It's a very complex platform."
"One of the biggest issues from the clients' perspective is that all Qualys computing is on the cloud."
"Qualys VM's vulnerability scan could be improved, especially the number of CVE numbers it can manage at a time."
"The reporting needs improvement. It should generate much more stuff like field reports."
"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."
"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 VM's scanner doesn't pick up every vulnerability, so we have to use multiple scanners to cover that gap."
"The reporting in this solution can be improved."
"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."
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Darktrace is ranked 12th in Email Security with 66 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Darktrace is rated 8.2, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Darktrace writes "Great autonomous support, offers an easy setup, and has responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and ExtraHop Reveal(x), whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM and Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management.
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