We performed a comparison between OWASP Zap 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."Automatic updates and pull request analysis."
"It's great that we can use it with Portswigger Burp."
"Simple to use, good user interface."
"The scalability of this product is very good."
"The community edition updates services regularly. They add new vulnerabilities into the scanning list."
"Simple and easy to learn and master."
"The interface is easy to use."
"It updates repositories and libraries quickly."
"With our vulnerabilities under control, it's putting our services in compliance and minimizing our risk for exposure."
"This product is designed for easy scalability and can easily scale up without major challenges."
"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)."
"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."
"It is easy to use."
"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 have experienced quick customer support. They have a complete list of our previous issues along with our history, which makes it faster for them to solve issues."
"By using QualysGuard, we are able to finish external scans with assured results in half the time."
"The work that it does in the limited scope is good, but the scope is very limited in terms of the scanning features. The number of things it tests or finds is limited. They need to make it a more of a mainstream tool that people can use, and they can even think about having it on a proprietary basis. They need to increase the coverage of the scan and the results that it finds. That has always been Zap's limitation. Zap is a very good tool for a beginner, but once you start moving up the ladder where you want further details and you want your scan to show more in-depth results, Zap falls short because its coverage falls short. It does not have the capacity to do more."
"As security evolves, we would like DevOps built into it. As of now, Zap does not provide this."
"Online documentation can be improved to utilize all features of ZAP and API methods to make use in automation."
"It would be a great improvement if they could include a marketplace to add extra features to the tool."
"Sometimes, we get some false positives."
"The documentation is lacking and out-of-date, it really needs more love."
"It would be nice to have a solid SQL injection engine built into Zap."
"The documentation needs to be improved because I had to learn everything from watching YouTube videos."
"The pricing does not seem to be competitive."
"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."
"The solution needs to adjust its pricing. They should make it more affordable."
"The UI is not user-friendly and you don't have a yearly reporting facility where you can slice and dice in different jobs."
"The virus code updates are not frequent enough."
"The scanner reports a lot of false positives, which is something that needs to be improved."
"The area of false positives could be improved. There are quite a number of false positives as compared to other solutions. They could probably fine tune the algorithm to be able to reduce the number of false positives being detected."
"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."
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OWASP Zap is ranked 8th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 37 reviews while Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 14th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 31 reviews. OWASP Zap is rated 7.6, while Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OWASP Zap writes "Great for automating and testing and has tightened our security ". 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". OWASP Zap is most compared with SonarQube, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Veracode and Checkmarx One, whereas Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Fortify WebInspect and Tenable.io Web Application Scanning. See our OWASP Zap vs. Qualys Web Application Scanning report.
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