We performed a comparison between Darktrace 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."The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the ease of use."
"It gives us visibility into threats and, for endpoints, it helps us to prioritize threats. We used to have a lack of visibility, but now our time to detect and respond has decreased."
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender."
"I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"The initial setup is straightforward. You just add the license, click it, and then you can set up the rules. It is quite simple."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a stable solution."
"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"The solution is stable. We've never had any problems with it."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ability to trim out the false positives and point your attention to the real important stuff."
"Artificial intelligence and machine learning functionalities are valuable."
"I am impressed with the product's ability to give insights into network traffic."
"We allow customers to access our Wi-Fi as guests, and some of them were going to restricted sites. Darktrace showed us what they were doing so we could block them."
"One thing I appreciate is Antigena Email, which is for email protection."
"The most valuable feature is that it works autonomously."
"The solution can scale."
"The Vulnerability Management and Patch Management features are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Provides great functionality."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"We also like the flexibility in their licensing."
"Qualys VM had a recent upgrade and the newer version is supporting the cloud."
"They also have threat detection which maps threats. There is a feed that comes from Qualys when a new vulnerability is found. It tells us which machines are infected with that vulnerability."
"Qualys VM's most valuable feature is automatic detection."
"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."
"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."
"They can improve their security in a way where a customer can know if all their attachments are safe or not to open through a report. The solution does its job perfectly, but it never reports to the customer whether those attachments have been stopped before or not."
"We need a separate license and we don't know how to get the license that is required."
"The custom alerts have to improve a lot."
"This product's effectiveness could be improved, in terms of detecting unwanted spam or even malware between the emails, compared to other products."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could improve by giving customers information on techniques to prevent threats. For example, information about best practices on how to protect their own devices against hackers and scammers, such as educational information or training. This would help others have a better understanding of cyber security. Additionally, there can be more security features added."
"We need to be able to whitelist data at the backend."
"The price point for the product was too high for what our possible use case could be."
"It would be useful if there was a way to check to see if there are certain devices that are not in sync with the solution. I'm not sure if this is an option or not."
"The program is quite expensive."
"It would be helpful if they could recognize incidents and simplify the customer's challenge to identify what is happening."
"The pricing is a bit high for the region."
"Getting logs from different sources can be a challenge."
"It takes time to go through the interface and pick up things. If it were a more straightforward interface, then it would free up time."
"In terms of improvements, fine-tuning is the area where we have to spend some time because it works on unsupervised machine learning. It would be good if they can improve their algorithm or technical functionality to reduce the fine-tuning effort. They can also come up with something at the endpoint level. So far, Darktrace has been a network detection response (NDR) solution. It does not offer much at the endpoint level or on user-client devices or servers. There should be more visibility at the endpoint level. It would be good to have the detection and response at the endpoint level by Darktrace. It should also have integration with an agile environment so that we can have continuous development and continuous integration in the application development environment. This is currently not there. It should also have internet-facing platform visibility, which is currently missing. They also need to improve the reporting and management dashboards. Currently, these are not so easy for a non-technical person. All these features would make Darktrace much better, and they would also be helpful in selling more solutions."
"Some of the older features could be polished instead of focusing on releasing new features."
"Finding things in management can be quite difficult."
"The price could be better. Asset view is still a legacy feature. I'm not able to extract the information about the asset with complete details. It would be better if they fixed that in the next release. I know Qualys is already working on it, so I'm hopeful it will be available in the next five or six months. That would be something that's changed where I seek improvement."
"When you want to cover yourself for scalability, you will be charged for the number you place on the scan itself."
"The ability to manage user accounts and give rights to the operator to know about abnormalities of applications is something that needs improvement."
"Qualys could be improved in its overall performance compared to other vulnerability management or scanning tools."
"Reports were lacking somewhat on the customization side."
"Qualys VM's machine learning and artificial intelligence features could be improved."
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Darktrace is ranked 13th in Email Security with 65 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Darktrace is rated 8.2, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Darktrace writes "Great autonomous support, offers an easy setup, and has responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus.
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