We performed a comparison between PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional 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."This solution has helped a lot in finding bugs and vulnerabilities, and the scanner is good enough for simple web apps."
"The intercepting feature is the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is the advanced features, user-friendly interface, and integration with other tools."
"The tool provides complimentary services. It allows you to add a lot of extensions, and you can get extensions quite often. It is quite a flexible application."
"I am impressed with the tool's detailed analysis for penetration testing. AppScan can give only visibility, but it can't do the PT part. But the PortSwigger Burp Application can do both, and it gives much more visibility on the PT rating."
"The extension that it provides with the community version for the skills mapping is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is the Burp Intruder tool."
"The solution is quite helpful for session management and configuration."
"Qualys Web Application Scanning has multiple features like threat protection and container security scanning in one box."
"Licensing is the most valuable. Qualys provides the best licensing for companies. It is the best product for the development purposes of web applications. The product has a lot of integrations."
"The most valuable feature of Qualys Web Application Scanning is the effective scanning that can be done."
"Qualys WAS' most valuable features are the navigation flow of the UI and the option for a different layer of security (identification and operation through email and mobile)."
"The product prevents possible vulnerabilities in our network."
"Its most valuable features are patch management, vulnerability management, and PCI compliance."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The simplicity of exporting reports and the simplicity and clarity of the reports included with the product are good."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional could improve the static code review."
"Scanning needs to be improved in enterprise and professional versions."
"Improvement should be done as per the requirements of customers."
"The technical support team's response time is mostly delayed and should be improved."
"If your application uses multi-factor authentication, registration management cannot be automated."
"If we're running a huge number of scans regularly, it slows down the tool."
"The reporting needs to be improved; it is very bad."
"The reporting contains too many false positives."
"Deployment can be complicated."
"The GUI could be a little less complicated as it opens a lot of new windows for creating search lists, templates, reports, or for scanning purposes."
"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."
"The software’s pricing could be improved."
"The virus code updates are not frequent enough."
"They should try to include business logic vulnerabilities in the scanner testing."
"Qualys Web Application Scanning is very complex to use, and its graphical interface is not very user-friendly."
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PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is ranked 9th in Application Security Tools with 57 reviews while Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 18th in Application Security Tools with 31 reviews. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is rated 8.6, while Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional writes "The solution is versatile and easy to deploy, but it needs to give more detailed security reports". 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". PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is most compared with OWASP Zap, Fortify WebInspect, Acunetix, HCL AppScan and SonarQube, whereas Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, Veracode, SonarQube, Fortify WebInspect and Tenable.io Web Application Scanning. See our PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional vs. Qualys Web Application Scanning report.
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