We performed a comparison between Contrast Security Protect and Qualys Web Application Scanning based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"It combines both web application vulnerability management and internal vulnerability management on one platform and dashboard. Usually, you have to purchase separate tools."
"Key features include: Cloud-based, so the installation is not so tedious. Easily deployed. Highly scalable. Comprehensive reporting."
"This product is designed for easy scalability and can easily scale up without major challenges."
"Licensing is the most valuable. Qualys provides the best licensing for companies. It is the best product for the development purposes of web applications. The product has a lot of integrations."
"I have found the detection of vulnerabilities tool thorough with good results and the graphical display output to be wonderful and full of colors. It allows many types of outputs, such as bar and chart previews."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the progressive scan. It is good. It's done in 24 hours."
"Qualys Web Application Scanning has multiple features like threat protection and container security scanning in one box."
"Qualys WAS' most valuable features are the navigation flow of the UI and the option for a different layer of security (identification and operation through email and mobile)."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"There could be better management and faster scanning."
"The pricing does not seem to be competitive."
"The support could be faster."
"Qualys Web Application Scanning is very complex to use, and its graphical interface is not very user-friendly."
"The reporting contains too many false positives."
"The solution needs to adjust its pricing. They should make it more affordable."
"There should be better visibility into the application."
"The UI is not user-friendly and you don't have a yearly reporting facility where you can slice and dice in different jobs."
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Contrast Security Protect is ranked 32nd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews while Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 19th in Application Security Tools with 31 reviews. Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4, while Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Contrast Security Protect writes "It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks". 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". Contrast Security Protect is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Snyk, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning and Sonatype Lifecycle, whereas Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Fortify WebInspect. See our Contrast Security Protect vs. Qualys Web Application Scanning report.
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