We performed a comparison between GitLab 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."CI/CD is valuable for me."
"A user friendly solution."
"This is a scalable solution. We had around 200 users working with it."
"We like that we can have an all-encompassing product and don't have to implement different solutions."
"I like that you can use GitLab as a double-sided solution for both DevOps and version management. It's a good product for working in these two areas, and the user interface makes it easy to understand."
"The solution makes the CI/CD pipelines easy to execute."
"Of all available products, it was the easiest to use and easy to install."
"Their CI/CD engine is very mature. It's very comprehensive and flexible, and compared to other projects, I believe that GitLab is number one right now from that perspective."
"The simplicity of exporting reports and the simplicity and clarity of the reports included with the product are good."
"We can do scanning and submit reports straight to the customers when there are new vulnerabilities, then tell them whether they are affected or not."
"It is a very stable solution."
"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."
"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."
"It is easy to use."
"With our vulnerabilities under control, it's putting our services in compliance and minimizing our risk for exposure."
"It combines both web application vulnerability management and internal vulnerability management on one platform and dashboard. Usually, you have to purchase separate tools."
"The integration could be slightly better."
"I'm new to GitLab, so I would appreciate more documentation about the code and commands."
"The solution could be faster."
"Even if I say I want some improvement, they will say it is already planned in the first quarter, second quarter, or third quarter. That said, most everything is quite improved already, and they're improving even further still."
"I used Spring Cloud config and to connect that to GitLab was so hard."
"I would like to see better integration with project management tools such as Jira."
"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."
"I would like configuration of a YML file to be done via UI rather than a code file."
"Qualys Web Application Scanning is very complex to use, and its graphical interface is not very user-friendly."
"In terms of the Policy Compliance model which they currently have, not all the platforms are being covered. If they could improve on the Policy Compliance model, since there are policies which are benchmarked against it, this will be helpful for us."
"We procured around 110 licenses for Web Application Scanning, but we have issues running concurrent scans. I don't currently have the option to trigger scans for all 100-plus websites. The default limit is around 10 conference scans. It's not very scalable, to be honest, because of the limitation that they put on concurrent scans."
"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."
"Deployment can be complicated."
"It should have better automatic reporting."
"The software’s pricing could be improved."
"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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GitLab is ranked 7th in Application Security Tools with 70 reviews while Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 19th in Application Security Tools with 31 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". 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". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton, whereas Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Rapid7 AppSpider. See our GitLab vs. Qualys Web Application Scanning report.
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