We performed a comparison between GitHub 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."There are no issues. It's simple, easy, and fully compatible from my perspective with Git."
"I find the most valuable collaboration between our peers to be a seamless collaboration between our peers. We can connect and change our code, allowing us to be agile in our projects. Since we're talking about DevOps, we're using Jenkins in our pipeline. It helps speed up the process by automating the DevOps workflow."
"The most valuable feature of GitHub is version control and continuous integration."
"During our use of GitHub, we have not encountered any problems and GitHub adds new features frequently."
"I have found GitHub stable."
"This product allows us to easily collaborate on development tasks with our subcontractors, and control the workflow as the project progresses."
"A great feature is being able to have different repositories and different kinds of projects in a single solution at a single time. It's just a click away."
"The deployment is fast since we just have to run the script, and once it's done, it takes a few minutes."
"We have experienced quick customer support. They have a complete list of our previous issues along with our history, which makes it faster for them to solve issues."
"It works with many different products."
"The simplicity of exporting reports and the simplicity and clarity of the reports included with the product are good."
"The product prevents possible vulnerabilities in our network."
"The Qualys Web Application Scanning solution offers a single comprehensive console and consolidated reporting, covering all aspects from on-prem to cloud and compliance, etcetera."
"I have found the detection of vulnerabilities tool thorough with good results and the graphical display output to be wonderful and full of colors. It allows many types of outputs, such as bar and chart previews."
"Key features include: Cloud-based, so the installation is not so tedious. Easily deployed. Highly scalable. Comprehensive reporting."
"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 would be useful to have tutorial videos within the GitHub dashboard."
"They're improving the work items to track the progress of the team, but in my experience, Azure DevOps is better in this functionality. GitHub needs to improve the form to track the progress of the work done by a team."
"This solution could be improved if migration was fully automated to make it easy, for example, to migrate repositories into GitHub."
"This solution could be improved by offering crowd sourced support where we could ask questions to other users."
"I would like to see integration with Slack such that all of the changes made in GitHub are reflected there."
"Lacks sufficient support in terms of professional services that could be provided."
"The security for this solution could be tightened up and improved."
"The user interface on GitLab is better."
"The reporting contains too many false positives."
"The scanner reports a lot of false positives, which is something that needs to be improved."
"There should be better visibility into the application."
"In certain cases, this product does have false positives, which the company should work on."
"The area of false positives could be improved. There are quite a number of false positives as compared to other solutions. They could probably fine tune the algorithm to be able to reduce the number of false positives being detected."
"There could be better management and faster scanning."
"The product should allow users to upload their payloads."
"The virus code updates are not frequent enough."
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GitHub is ranked 9th in Application Security Tools with 74 reviews while Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 19th in Application Security Tools with 31 reviews. GitHub is rated 8.6, while Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of GitHub writes "Beneficial version control and continuous integration, but guides would be helpful". 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". GitHub is most compared with Snyk, AWS CodeCommit, Fortify on Demand, Bitbucket and Sonatype Repository Firewall, whereas Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Fortify WebInspect. See our GitHub vs. Qualys Web Application Scanning report.
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