We performed a comparison between Pentera and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tenable, Wiz, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Vulnerability Management."The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"The most valuable feature of Pentera is that you can do continuous vulnerability assessment, which is automated."
"Maybe there are some remediation steps on the website, we can mask sensitive information on the website better."
"The product is easy to use."
"What I like the most about Pentera is its solution-oriented approach."
"Qualys VM's best feature is vulnerability management."
"Vulnerability management is the most valuable one and it’s a must in every organization."
"It's really beneficial for scanning and interacting with the agent."
"I like Qualys because it is a very complete product, more so than Tenable."
"Qualys VM's best features are vulnerability management and customizable scoring."
"Great web application security for scanning."
"The initial setup was good. We didn't have any problems with it."
"We also like the flexibility in their licensing."
"The price could be improved."
"Pentera's general dashboards could be improved and made more specific in terms of vulnerabilities that I'm discovering."
"Maybe scalability. I know that the Pentera right now is high level in order to scan big deals over 500 IPs and not less, and not less. That can be more granular. This will be useful."
"The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"There is room for improvement in virtualization compatibility."
"They have integrated with other third parties, but it is still not viable."
"I would like to see this solution simplified to work more easily in a multi-cloud environment."
"Qualys could improve the inbuilt dashboards."
"Reports were lacking somewhat on the customization side."
"Qualys does have an on-prem solution, but it is very expensive."
"They should make it accessible for more operating systems."
"The tool needs to improve the adding assets and report generation features. I would like to see the policy scan of offline appliances in the product's future releases."
"The reporting and the GUI need improvements."
Pentera is ranked 15th in Vulnerability Management with 5 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Pentera is rated 8.2, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Pentera writes "A stable solution that can be used to do continuous and automated vulnerability assessments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Pentera is most compared with Cymulate, Tenable Nessus, Picus Security, Horizon3.ai and XM Cyber, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Wiz.
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