We performed a comparison between Cisco SD-WAN and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions."The initial setup is straightforward and easy to deploy."
"The most valuable features are zero-disk provisioning and link load balancing on an application basis."
"Using SD-WAN to combine services can result in better up time, higher speeds, and much lower costs."
"The solution provides good consolidation, centralization, and manageability for edge routers."
"Configuration interfaces are quite easy and intuitive. Being a part of the Cisco environment, Cisco SD-WAN is quite straightforward."
"Any technical support we needed was great."
"I have found the solution's main features are its ability to be customized, network traffic classification, and has a wide range of features that can be set."
"The solution can scale. We haven't had any issues doing so."
"What I like about Qualys VM is the dashboard presentation. It's very good."
"Qualys VM had a recent upgrade and the newer version is supporting the cloud."
"The vulnerability management feature is what I used the most. It is a good SaaS product. It is easy to use. It has a nice UI where you can see all the assets and vulnerabilities."
"Vulnerability management is the most valuable one and it’s a must in every organization."
"It's really beneficial for scanning and interacting with the agent."
"Monitors workstations and servers for vulnerabilities and creates reports."
"The most valuable feature is the connection of threat intelligence information with identified vulnerabilities, which means you can prioritize vulnerabilities according to actual attacks."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability detection and the scanning capability to enable identification of vulnerabilities across our network."
"Cisco's router and voice gateway has not been available since the launch of SD-WAN."
"Compresson deduplication should be added."
"One of the major areas that Cisco can improve on with their SD-WAN offering is their security features. When compared with Fortinet, who have what they call their 'security pillars' (e.g. firewall and security features built-in to their SD-WAN solutions), Cisco generally comes up short. With Cisco, if you need a security component, you have to pay more to get it done. So if they could add more security features that come part and parcel with their existing solutions, then I think Cisco could be very aggressive in the market."
"All of the configurations are based on templates, and we need to spend a lot of time doing the templates. It's good because that means that all of the configurations will be equal in the network. However, we need to spend a lot of time implementing the templates and doing the customizations."
"Cyber security should also be implemented in the solution, along with maybe implementation of AI/ML."
"Cisco SD-WAN could improve on the ease of integration, the configuration should be easier. At the moment the process is more command line based and it would be better if it was able to be done through an interface."
"The client portal needs to be improved in order to make the solution much better."
"The platform needs to be updated to be more stable and simple."
"When tested on Zero day, there were errors."
"It would be nice to have an all-in-one solution that was automated and could handle the scanning and reports as well as the patching and updating."
"Qualys VM's scanner doesn't pick up every vulnerability, so we have to use multiple scanners to cover that gap."
"There needs to be better documentation."
"It is more expensive vs. other products on the market."
"Reports were lacking somewhat on the customization side."
"Some of the older features could be polished instead of focusing on releasing new features."
"Qualys VMDR is basically susceptible to false positives, and false negatives."
Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 86 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "A solution for integrating services to enhance up-time, performance and lower costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Juniper Session Smart Router and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform, 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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