We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Qualys VMDR 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."The product’s most valuable features are compliance, recommendations, and inventories."
"The product's stability is very high...The scalability of the product is amazing."
"The solution helps identify threats and vulnerabilities."
"The solution is up-to-date and helps prevent zero-day attacks."
"One valuable feature is the Microsoft Security Scorecard."
"The reporting functionality is great."
"Tech support is helpful."
"Intuitive and easy to use."
"This solution gives us insight into our environment and improves our security. It helps us to maintain a good patching system whereby we know that XYZ is vulnerable within the system."
"The solution shows us classic categories, including high, medium, and low risks. It also shows critical items, and that gives us the advantage of prioritizing things."
"The biggest benefit is from a security operations perspective, where we are able to drive our security posture upwards by remediating any discovered vulnerabilities."
"It's stable and quite reliable."
"Qualys has a continuous endpoint monitoring feature for agent-based scanning. Once you deploy the solution, it monitors everything that is happening every 30 minutes. Then, if there are any vulnerabilities, they are reported."
"The technical support takes too much time to resolve tickets."
"It is challenging to extract and customize reports from the system."
"The general support could be improved."
"The setup phase of the product is not that easy and needs a person to have a certain level of expertise."
"Integration can be improved."
"Reports were lacking somewhat on the customization side."
"I would like to see more accuracy in detections, better reporting capabilities, and better dashboard download capabilities."
"The only improvement I can think of is on the implementation side. At times it is a bit slow."
"Integration could be better. When you think about scanning, it's not used just with this product alone but with other Qualys products. If you think about the bundle, the product itself is good. But integration with other products and packages has space for improvement. They should also offer a better price for bundles."
"Improve the API speed."
"It is more expensive vs. other products on the market."
"It's not very user-friendly at times and requires in-depth understanding. So, a layman or someone new to Qualys won't be able to easily understand it. You need education to use the solution."
"They should make it accessible for more operating systems."
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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is ranked 8th in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 5 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is rated 8.2, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management writes "The vulnerability assessment is very accurate because it runs directly into the vulnerability database". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Tanium. See our Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management vs. Qualys VMDR report.
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