We performed a comparison between OWASP Zap and Qualys Web Application Scanning based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The OWASP's tool is free of cost, which gives it a great advantage, especially for smaller companies to make use of the tool."
"The product helps users to scan and fix vulnerabilities in the pipeline."
"The ZAP scan and code crawler are valuable features."
"It scans while you navigate, then you can save the requests performed and work with them later."
"The community edition updates services regularly. They add new vulnerabilities into the scanning list."
"The reporting is quite intuitive, which gives you a clear indication of what kind of vulnerability you have that you can drill down on to gather more information."
"It's great that we can use it with Portswigger Burp."
"The best feature is the Zap HUD (Heads Up Display) because the customers can use the website normally. If we scan websites with automatic scanning, and the website has a web application firewall, it's very difficult."
"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."
"The product prevents possible vulnerabilities in our network."
"The most valuable feature is that we are able to scan the services and put credentials like a user ID password. We can verify the vulnerability level."
"QualysGuard web-based scanner is very useful for performing external penetration and PCI scans from remote locations."
"You can integrate your Burp Suite results and create an integrated report. Also, the way it shows the results - threats and exploit details - makes remediation very easy."
"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."
"By using QualysGuard, we are able to finish external scans with assured results in half the time."
"It works with many different products."
"It would be a great improvement if they could include a marketplace to add extra features to the tool."
"The automated vulnerability assessments that the application performs needs to be simplified as well as diversified."
"There's very little documentation that comes with OWASP Zap."
"Too many false positives; test reports could be improved."
"I'd like to see a kind of feature where we can just track what our last vulnerability was and how it has improved or not. More reports that can have some kind of base-lining, I think that would be a good feature too. I'm not sure whether it can be achieved and implement but I think that would really help."
"It doesn't run on absolutely every operating system."
"OWASP Zap needs to extend to mobile application testing."
"The product reporting could be improved."
"There could be better management and faster scanning."
"They should try to include business logic vulnerabilities in the scanner testing."
"In certain cases, this product does have false positives, which the company should work on."
"When comparing this solution to Veracode, Veracode has good interactive features and gives a clear understanding of what the vulnerabilities are, which error line of the vulnerability is on and what can be done. It gives interactive features, whereas this solution does not give a clear understanding of where or how to fix the problem."
"Sometimes the response time is low because the handshake fails, and then you have to re-login and start again."
"The virus code updates are not frequent enough."
"Deployment can be complicated."
"We receive false positives sometimes when using a solution that could be improved. However, the technical team provides us with the exact explanation why it was giving us that kind of error."
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OWASP Zap is ranked 7th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 37 reviews while Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 14th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 31 reviews. OWASP Zap is rated 7.6, while Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OWASP Zap writes "Great for automating and testing and has tightened our security ". 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". OWASP Zap is most compared with SonarQube, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Veracode and Checkmarx One, whereas Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Fortify WebInspect and Tenable.io Web Application Scanning. See our OWASP Zap vs. Qualys Web Application Scanning report.
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