We performed a comparison between Contrast Security Protect 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."The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"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."
"Key features include: Cloud-based, so the installation is not so tedious. Easily deployed. Highly scalable. Comprehensive reporting."
"This product is designed for easy scalability and can easily scale up without major challenges."
"It is a very stable solution."
"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."
"The vulnerability management feature is a strong one. And also the patch management feature."
"It is a good product for website penetration testing to detect vulnerabilities."
"QualysGuard web-based scanner is very useful for performing external penetration and PCI scans from remote locations."
"Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"The software’s pricing could be improved."
"The scanner reports a lot of false positives, which is something that needs to be improved."
"The support could be faster."
"In certain cases, this product does have false positives, which the company should work on."
"The UI is not user-friendly and you don't have a yearly reporting facility where you can slice and dice in different jobs."
"There's a distinction between internal and external scanning processes that could be streamlined. Currently, for internal scanning, specific configurations and scanner appliances need to be deployed within the network, which differs from the simpler setup for external scans. This dual process complicates the setup for comprehensive scanning coverage."
"Qualys Web Application Scanning is very complex to use, and its graphical interface is not very user-friendly."
"We procured around 110 licenses for Web Application Scanning, but we have issues running concurrent scans. I don't currently have the option to trigger scans for all 100-plus websites. The default limit is around 10 conference scans. It's not very scalable, to be honest, because of the limitation that they put on concurrent scans."
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Contrast Security Protect is ranked 32nd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews while Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 18th in Application Security Tools with 31 reviews. Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4, while Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Contrast Security Protect writes "It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks". 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". Contrast Security Protect is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Snyk, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning and Sonatype Lifecycle, whereas Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Fortify WebInspect. See our Contrast Security Protect vs. Qualys Web Application Scanning report.
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