We performed a comparison between Avanan and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, TitanHQ and others in Email Security."Microsoft Defender has a feature to protect each and every attachment. Even if it's an encrypted attachment, it will check for any potential threats."
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a stable solution."
"Defender enables us to secure all 365-related activity from a single place. It gives us visibility into everything happening in Outlook, protecting us against phishing and other email-based threats. Defender helps us detect any suspicious behaviors."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable features are safe attachments and safe links."
"The initial setup was easy."
"There are several features that I consider valuable."
"Since we have started using the solution, there have been fewer compromises."
"Email encryption enhances end to end security of any data before it passes through the networking system."
"Easy to use for non-technical users."
"I like Avanan's SmartDLP module. It's seamless, and the administrative overhead is low. We aren't a very sophisticated operation. We just want to reduce our exposure, so we find ThreatCloud helpful. Avanan's acquisition by Check Point was beneficial for them."
"Email inspection has saved many employees from spam attacks and viruses from unauthorized sources."
"Spam protection is the most valuable feature."
"It is simple to deploy this platform and interact with the set features."
"The integration with all our existing and new applications is great."
"The customizable rules allow you to change aspects."
"It gives a very good overview of the inventory assessment process, and it can be accessed across our company because it's a global tool."
"The features that are most valuable are the identification, scan features, and the identification of vulnerabilities."
"Qualys VM is very stable."
"We also like the flexibility in their licensing."
"Qualys VM's most valuable feature is automatic detection."
"I like Qualys because it is a very complete product, more so than Tenable."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"In one of the reports I can get the exact place where a vulnerable file resides. But for that, I need to explicitly go into the device and check. If they could include that file part in the report, without my having to go to the device itself, that would help."
"Microsoft wants its well-paying customers to finish testing some of its half-baked products, find bugs, and report bugs back to Microsoft's team, which is a little frustrating for those who have to manage it and roll it up to thousands of people across the organization."
"The visibility for the weaknesses in the system and unauthorized access can be improved."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 must improve the overall management style, including the GUI. It also needs to change the filters so that it is easy to whitelist and blacklist data."
"There is room for improvement in terms of reporting."
"The only thing they should improve is the licensing model. They should stop changing it. A year ago, the five features I mentioned were included in one product. Now, three of them are bundled into one product, and you have to pay extra for the other two. I don't mind paying extra, but I don't want them to change it every year or every six months. I need to know what I'm looking at and not worry about it next year."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"The phishing and spam filters could use some improvement."
"When sending bulky emails, the system slows down and takes a long time before it responds effectively to our requests."
"It should reduce the amount of time needed for thorough scanning."
"The system response in a slow computing device affects performance when sending and receiving emails."
"The customer service team could come up with clear tutorials on how to use this platform to help new teams."
"It should also offer a quick backup in case any email is wrongly quarantined or deleted to ensure no data loss."
"Familiarization with performance for new teams may take a long time."
"There are times when we have false positives."
"The user experience must be improved."
"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."
"Sometimes the scanning can get overwhelmed and start to drag when a lot of users are trying to scan at once."
"Qualys could improve the inbuilt dashboards."
"They should make it accessible for more operating systems."
"Qualys should improve their customer experience. They need to improve the tech support experience and the turnaround time."
"What we have found is that the solution is not closely tied with the patch management. It is okay with newer ones, like Windows 10 machines; it gives the correct patch. But for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008, it does not give us the correct patch so we have to manually identify the patches. This is a major problem."
"The reporting needs improvement. It should generate much more stuff like field reports."
"Improve the user interface."
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Avanan is ranked 6th in Email Security with 21 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Avanan is rated 9.2, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Avanan writes "We've noticed a significant decline from people accidentally or intentionally clicking on things". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Avanan is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, IRONSCALES, Abnormal Security, Perception Point Advanced Email Security and Mimecast Email Security, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management.
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