We performed a comparison between Qualys VMDR and Snyk based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Qualys VMDR is praised for its user-friendly interface, prioritization system, and customizable dashboard. It effectively addresses vulnerabilities and offers valuable scanning capabilities. Snyk users highlighted its developer-friendly approach, automatic pull requests, and software composition analysis features. Reviewers said Qualys VMDR could improve by offering more customization options and integrating more seamlessly with other systems. The interface could be clearer, and Qualys could enhance scanning capabilities for IoT and industrial control systems. Snyk should focus on improving compatibility, reporting, and automatic remediation.
Service and Support: Qualys VMDR's customer service is mostly considered accessible and responsive. However, some reviewers reported slow response times and expressed a desire for more skilled support personnel. Some Snyk customers found the solution's support to be dependable. Others say Snyk should overhaul how it categorizes and prioritizes support requests. Both products offer sufficient support, but Qualys VMDR appears to leave a more positive impression in terms of customer service.
Ease of Deployment: Qualys VMDR is considered uncomplicated and efficient, requiring only a short amount of time. A few users encountered challenges with integration and ensuring data privacy. Snyk users were somewhat divided about the product's setup difficulty. Some found it to be straightforward and fast, while others needed additional guidance. The time needed to implement Snyk could range from several days up to a couple of weeks.
Pricing: The cost of Qualys VMDR varies depending on the organization's business requirements. Some find it affordable, but others consider it costly compared to alternatives. Snyk's pricing is on the higher end of the spectrum, but it is regarded as reasonably priced for the features it offers.
ROI: Qualys VMDR is highly efficient in identifying vulnerabilities and reducing risks. Snyk offers a cost-effective solution for addressing bugs sooner in the development process, offsetting the high annual subscription fees.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Qualys VMDR over Snyk for its robust features, such as continuous monitoring and a customizable dashboard. Users appreciate the great technical support and find the solution stable and reliable. Snyk needs improvement in terms of reporting and customer support. Also, Qualys VMDR's pricing is competitive, while Snyk's license is relatively expensive.
"We've seen a reduction in resources devoted to vulnerability monitoring. Before PingSafe we spent a lot of time monitoring and fixing these issues. PingSafe enabled us to divert more resources to the production environment."
"The solution helped free other staff to work on other projects or other tasks. We basically just had to do a bunch of upfront configuring. With it, we do not have to spend as much time in the console."
"PingSafe offers an intuitive user interface that lets us navigate quickly and easily."
"PingSafe offers three key features: vulnerability management notifications, cloud configuration assistance, and security scanning."
"Cloud Native Security helps us discover vulnerabilities in a cloud environment like open ports that allow people to attack our environment. If someone unintentionally opens a port, we are exposed. Cloud Native Security alerts us so we can remediate the problem. We can also automate it so that Cloud Native Security will fix it."
"We noted immediate benefits from using the solution."
"Atlas security graph is pretty cool. It maps out relationships between components on AWS, like load balancers and servers. This helps visualize potential attack paths and even suggests attack paths a malicious actor might take."
"The management console is highly intuitive to comprehend and operate."
"I am impressed with the VMDR feature."
"Provides great functionality."
"Qualys VM's best features are vulnerability management and customizable scoring."
"Intuitive and easy to use."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to run different capabilities with the same agent. With only one agent, we can have EDR, vulnerability management, compliance and some basic SaaS security capabilities."
"The integrations for this solution are very good. I use a different product for virtual patching of vulnerabilities and Qualys integrates well with that product."
"The most valuable feature is the connection of threat intelligence information with identified vulnerabilities, which means you can prioritize vulnerabilities according to actual attacks."
"Static code analysis is one of the best features of the solution."
"A main feature of Snyk is that when you go with SCA, you do get properly done security composition, also from the licensing and open-source parameters perspective. A lot of companies often use open-source libraries or frameworks in their code, which is a big security concern. Snyk deals with all the things and provides you with a proper report about whether any open-source code or framework that you are using is vulnerable. In that way, Snyk is very good as compared to other tools."
"The most valuable features include enriched information around the vulnerabilities for better triaging, in terms of the vulnerability layer origin and vulnerability tree."
"The advantage of Snyk is that Snyk automatically creates a pull request for all the findings that match or are classified according to the policy that we create. So, once we review the PR within Snyk and we approve the PR, Snyk auto-fixes the issue, which is quite interesting and which isn't there in any other product out there. So, Snyk is a step ahead in this particular area."
"The CLI feature is quite useful because it gives us a lot of flexibility in what we want to do. If you use the UI, all the information is there and you can see what Snyk is showing you, but there is nothing else that you can change. However, when you use the CLI, then you can use commands and can get the output or response back from Snyk. You can also take advantage of that output in a different way. For the same reason, we have been using the CLI for the hard gate in the pipeline: Obtain a particular CDSS score for vulnerability. Based on that information, we can then decide if we want to block or allow the build. We have more flexibility if we use the CLI."
"It has improved our vulnerability rating and reduced our vulnerabilities through the tool during the time that we've had it. It's definitely made us more aware, as we have removed scoping for existing vulnerabilities and platforms since we rolled it out up until now."
"We have integrated it into our software development environment. We have it in a couple different spots. Developers can use it at the point when they are developing. They can test it on their local machine. If the setup that they have is producing alerts or if they need to upgrade or patch, then at the testing phase when a product is being built for automated testing integrates with Snyk at that point and also produces some checks."
"Our customers find container scans most valuable. They are always talking about it."
"I would like PingSafe to add real-time detection of vulnerabilities and cloud misconfigurations."
"It would be really helpful if the solution improves its agent deployment process."
"PingSafe's current documentation could be improved to better assist customers during the cluster onboarding process."
"There is a bit of a learning curve for new users."
"They need more experienced support personnel."
"We use PingSafe and also SentinelOne. If PingSafe integrated some of the endpoint security features of SentinelOne, it would be the perfect one-stop solution for everything. We wouldn't need to switch between the products. At my organization, I am responsible for endpoint security and vulnerability management. Integrating both functions into one application would be ideal because I could see all the alerts, heat maps, and reports in one console."
"I would like additional integrations."
"Whenever I view the processes and the process aspect, it takes a long time to load."
"The ability to manage user accounts and give rights to the operator to know about abnormalities of applications is something that needs improvement."
"The disadvantage of working with Qualys is that the graphical interface is quite outdated."
"They're still evolving their platform in terms of reporting capabilities."
"I would like to have CSPM, a continuous scan-like cloud added to the solution."
"We face issues while scanning multiple assets."
"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."
"There seems to be a lack of easy onboarding into Qualys."
"The IoT scan is not great."
"There are some new features that we would like to see added, e.g., more visibility into library usage for the code. Something along the lines where it's doing the identification of where vulnerabilities are used, etc. This would cause them to stand out in the market as a much different platform."
"I would like to give further ability to grouping code repositories, in such a way that you could group them by the teams that own them, then produce alerting to those teams. The way that we are seeing it right now, the alerting only goes to a couple of places. I wish we could configure the code to go to different places."
"The log export function could be easier when shipping logs to other platforms such as Splunk."
"The solution's integration with JFrog Artifactory could be improved."
"Could include other types of security scanning and statistical analysis"
"It can be improved from the reporting perspective and scanning perspective. They can also improve it on the UI front."
"We use Bamboo for CI.CD, and we had problems integrating Snyk with it. Ultimately, we got the two solutions to work together, but it was difficult."
"A feature we would like to see is the ability to archive and store historical data, without actually deleting it. It's a problem because it throws my numbers off. When I'm looking at the dashboard's current vulnerabilities, it's not accurate."
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Qualys VMDR is ranked 11th in Container Security with 77 reviews while Snyk is ranked 5th in Container Security with 41 reviews. Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2, while Snyk is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snyk writes "Performs software composition analysis (SCA) similar to other expensive tools". Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management, whereas Snyk is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck, GitHub Advanced Security, Fortify Static Code Analyzer and Veracode. See our Qualys VMDR vs. Snyk report.
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