We performed a comparison between Qualys VMDR and Rapid7 Metasploit 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."It is a simple solution that makes scanning easy. You just give it a scheduled task, and it will do everything for you."
"The most valuable feature is that this solution is very lightweight."
"It is quite easy to implement."
"It's very configurable to adjust impact to systems."
"The most valuable features of Qualys VM are its ability to do proper vulnerability assessment. It has a lot of updates for all the vulnerability databases from all over the globe. It's an amazing solution when it comes to the versatility of the features it has. Additionally, the reports are very good. It generates very detailed reports about the vulnerabilities inside the environment"
"There are fewer false positives when using this solution."
"The process of defining and discovering scans is organized efficiently."
"The features that are most valuable are the identification, scan features, and the identification of vulnerabilities."
"The tool's most useful feature for penetration testing is its automation capabilities. With the professional edition, you can upload the results from Nessus in the Rapid7 Metasploit solution portal."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The solution is open source and has many small targetted penetration tests that have been written by many people that are useful. You can choose different subjects for the test, such as Oracle databases or Apache servers."
"The greatest advantage of Rapid7 Metasploit is that it is the only system that can directly exploit vulnerabilities on the Metasploit platform."
"All of the features are great."
"It contains almost all the available exploits and payloads."
"It's not possible to do penetration testing without being very proficient in Metasploit."
"The most valuable feature for us is the support for testing Linux-based web server components."
"They're still evolving their platform in terms of reporting capabilities."
"The reporting and the GUI need improvements."
"Qualys could improve the inbuilt dashboards."
"Qualys VM should improve its methodology."
"It is a struggle to be able to pull our report and to be able to do onboarding using automated tools."
"They have integrated with other third parties, but it is still not viable."
"The tool needs to improve the adding assets and report generation features. I would like to see the policy scan of offline appliances in the product's future releases."
"Qualys VM's vulnerability scan could be improved, especially the number of CVE numbers it can manage at a time."
"Better automation capabilities would be an improvement."
"The solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"At the time I was using it, the graphical user interface needed some improvements."
"The solution should improve the responsiveness of its live technical support."
"If your company's patch is not up to date, but you have other detection or defense solutions such as endpoint detection and response and antivirus software, the product exploit may not work effectively. This is because its exploit database update process is slow and not real-time. For zero-day vulnerabilities or new security threats, relying on Rapid7 Metasploit alone may not be effective."
"I would like to see more capabilities, more functions, and more features. More types of attack vectors."
"Metasploit cannot be installed on a machine with an antivirus."
"We'd like them to offer better coverage of malware."
Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews while Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 11th in Vulnerability Management with 18 reviews. Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2, while Rapid7 Metasploit is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rapid7 Metasploit writes "Helps find vulnerabilities in a system to determine whether the system needs to be upgraded". Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management, whereas Rapid7 Metasploit is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Pentera, Acunetix, Rapid7 InsightVM and PortSwigger Burp Suite Enterprise Edition. See our Qualys VMDR vs. Rapid7 Metasploit report.
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