We performed a comparison between Qualys VMDR and Tenable Security Center 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."It's very configurable to adjust impact to systems."
"There are many features. Its reliability, ease of installation, ease of use, and the richness of the information provided are the most valuable features."
"Monitors workstations and servers for vulnerabilities and creates reports."
"The integrations for this solution are very good. I use a different product for virtual patching of vulnerabilities and Qualys integrates well with that product."
"It is quite easy to implement."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability scanning, policy compliance scanning, and tablet for web application scanning."
"The initial setup was good. We didn't have any problems with it."
"I find the solution's dashboard interesting...The response time is fine. You can pull up reports without dragging or consuming bandwidth."
"Tenable's most valuable features are the credential scan, vulnerability reports, and vulnerability ratings (VPR)."
"The solution is completely stable and operation is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the vulnerability assessment."
"Tenable.sc is user-friendly."
"Compliance and vulnerability scans are most valuable. Compliance scan helps in validating how our teams are complying, and vulnerability scan helps in future-proofing. Its vulnerability detection is accurate."
"The most valuable features of Tenable SC are scanning, reporting, dashboards, and automation."
"The tool provides us insight into the happens of the network and its hosts. It provides me with a list of hosts."
"The most important features are the dashboard and reporting. The dashboard provides statistics with graphs and bar charts for our management."
"It's not very user-friendly at times and requires in-depth understanding. So, a layman or someone new to Qualys won't be able to easily understand it. You need education to use the solution."
"Sometimes we face a problem with accessing the tool and not getting an expected result. From a technology point of view, they need to look into this."
"Sometimes the scanning can get overwhelmed and start to drag when a lot of users are trying to scan at once."
"There needs to be better documentation."
"The customer support is very bad."
"If anything, I would like to see the user interface modernized a bit more."
"It's too early for me to say if there is any room for improvement since we're in the first couple of months of using this solution."
"We face issues while scanning multiple assets."
"The product could be user-friendly, and they could enhance the web application's security features."
"The solution should provide better web application features and support."
"The solution needs to improve its support. I would like to see a bird's eye view of my network architecture. I would also like to see the continuous view feature in the tool."
"Tenable.sc's user interface could be improved."
"There's a lot of information being streamed out of the reports. What would be nice, and maybe we just haven't found it, would be more of an executive-type view. We still expect it to collect all this information, but we would like a feature that would allow us to show it to an executive or a director or someone like that and give them some type of high-level overview but not get into the nitty-gritty."
"I will say it's a lot slower compared to an MS scan. It takes so much longer, so the performance could definitely be worked on."
"Support could be faster."
"A good plugin editor would be a good additional option for the Security Center."
Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 76 reviews while Tenable Security Center is ranked 1st in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 48 reviews. Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2, while Tenable Security Center is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Security Center writes "Reliable, useful reports, but initial report configuration could improve". Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, whereas Tenable Security Center is most compared with Tenable Vulnerability Management, Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM, Horizon3.ai and Tanium. See our Qualys VMDR vs. Tenable Security Center report.
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