We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Risk-Based Vulnerability Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product's stability is very high...The scalability of the product is amazing."
"The solution is up-to-date and helps prevent zero-day attacks."
"The solution helps identify threats and vulnerabilities."
"One valuable feature is the Microsoft Security Scorecard."
"The product’s most valuable features are compliance, recommendations, and inventories."
"It's a good product. After the scan our internet works well. It scans our security posture."
"The reporting is fine."
"It's stable and quite reliable."
"Qualys has a continuous endpoint monitoring feature for agent-based scanning. Once you deploy the solution, it monitors everything that is happening every 30 minutes. Then, if there are any vulnerabilities, they are reported."
"It gives a very good overview of the inventory assessment process, and it can be accessed across our company because it's a global tool."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to run different capabilities with the same agent. With only one agent, we can have EDR, vulnerability management, compliance and some basic SaaS security capabilities."
"There are fewer false positives when using this solution."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Integration can be improved."
"The technical support takes too much time to resolve tickets."
"The setup phase of the product is not that easy and needs a person to have a certain level of expertise."
"It is challenging to extract and customize reports from the system."
"The general support could be improved."
"The reporting and the GUI need improvements."
"Improve the user interface."
"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."
"It is more expensive vs. other products on the market."
"Integration could be better. When you think about scanning, it's not used just with this product alone but with other Qualys products. If you think about the bundle, the product itself is good. But integration with other products and packages has space for improvement. They should also offer a better price for bundles."
"Finding things in management can be quite difficult."
"Qualys VM's vulnerability scan could be improved, especially the number of CVE numbers it can manage at a time."
"Qualys VM could improve by having more skilled support personnel."
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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is ranked 7th in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 5 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is rated 8.2, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management writes "The vulnerability assessment is very accurate because it runs directly into the vulnerability database". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. See our Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management vs. Qualys VMDR report.
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