We performed a comparison between Ixia BreakingPoint and Qualys Web Application Scanning based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Testing (AST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Ixia BreakingPoint is the ransomware and malware database for simulated attacks."
"The solution has many protocols and options, making it very flexible."
"The DDoS testing module is useful and quick to use."
"It is a scalable solution."
"There is a virtual version of the product which is scaled to 100s of virtual testing blades."
"I like that we can test cloud applications."
"We use Ixia BreakingPoint for Layer 7 traffic generation. That's what we like."
"With our vulnerabilities under control, it's putting our services in compliance and minimizing our risk for exposure."
"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."
"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."
"QualysGuard web-based scanner is very useful for performing external penetration and PCI scans from remote locations."
"Its most valuable features are patch management, vulnerability management, and PCI compliance."
"Key features include: Cloud-based, so the installation is not so tedious. Easily deployed. Highly scalable. Comprehensive reporting."
"It is easy to use."
"It works with many different products."
"The production traffic simulations are not realistic enough for some types of DDoS attacks."
"The solution originally was hard to configure; I'm not sure if they've updated this to make it simpler, but if not, it's something that could be streamlined."
"The quality of the traffic generation could be improved with Ixia BreakingPoint, i.e. to get closer to being accurate in what a real user will do."
"The integration could improve in Ixia BreakingPoint."
"I would appreciate some preconfigured network neighborhoods, which are predefined settings for testing networks."
"The price could be better."
"They should improve UI mode packages for the users."
"The product should allow users to upload their payloads."
"The reporting contains too many false positives."
"There should be better visibility into the application."
"In certain cases, this product does have false positives, which the company should work on."
"Sometimes the response time is low because the handshake fails, and then you have to re-login and start again."
"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."
"There could be better management and faster scanning."
"The virus code updates are not frequent enough."
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Ixia BreakingPoint is ranked 23rd in Application Security Testing (AST) with 8 reviews while Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 14th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 31 reviews. Ixia BreakingPoint is rated 8.4, while Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Ixia BreakingPoint writes "Works better for testing traffic, mix profile, and enrollment scenarios than other solutions". 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". Ixia BreakingPoint is most compared with Spirent CyberFlood and Synopsys Defensics, whereas Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Fortify WebInspect. See our Ixia BreakingPoint vs. Qualys Web Application Scanning report.
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