We performed a comparison between Qualys Web Application Scanning and Synopsys API Security Testing based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Testing (AST)."It is a good product for website penetration testing to detect vulnerabilities."
"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."
"The product prevents possible vulnerabilities in our network."
"QualysGuard web-based scanner is very useful for performing external penetration and PCI scans from remote locations."
"Qualys' process of updating signatures is something we really appreciate, and it's way ahead of its industry peers."
"The interface is user-friendly and easy to understand."
"The simplicity of exporting reports and the simplicity and clarity of the reports included with the product are good."
"The most valuable feature of Qualys Web Application Scanning is the effective scanning that can be done."
"The most valuable features of Synopsys API Security Testing are the metrics, results, and threat vectors that it shares."
"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 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."
"Qualys Web Application Scanning is very complex to use, and its graphical interface is not very user-friendly."
"The product's pricing could be better."
"The virus code updates are not frequent enough."
"The reporting contains too many false positives."
"The GUI could be a little less complicated as it opens a lot of new windows for creating search lists, templates, reports, or for scanning purposes."
"The solution required us to use our team and we spoke to Synopsys API Security Testing's support to do the implementation. We use two people from our team for the implementation. and one person for maintenance."
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Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 14th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 31 reviews while Synopsys API Security Testing is ranked 29th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 1 review. Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8, while Synopsys API Security Testing is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Qualys Web Application Scanning writes "A stable solution that can be used for infrastructure vulnerability scanning and web application scanning". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Synopsys API Security Testing writes "Useful threat vectors, beneficial results, but implementation needed support". Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Fortify WebInspect, whereas Synopsys API Security Testing is most compared with Seeker, Fortify WebInspect, OWASP Zap and Acunetix.
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