We performed a comparison between Qualys Web Application Scanning and Synopsys Defensics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Tools."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."
"It is a good product for website penetration testing to detect vulnerabilities."
"The vulnerability management feature is a strong one. And also the patch management feature."
"We can do scanning and submit reports straight to the customers when there are new vulnerabilities, then tell them whether they are affected or not."
"By using QualysGuard, we are able to finish external scans with assured results in half the time."
"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)."
"QualysGuard web-based scanner is very useful for performing external penetration and PCI scans from remote locations."
"Whatever the test suit they give, it is intelligent. It will understand the protocol and it will generate the test cases based on the protocol: protocol, message sequence, protocol, message structure... Because of that, we can eliminate a lot of unwanted test cases, so we can execute the tests and complete them very quickly."
"We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."
"The product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs."
"It should have better automatic reporting."
"The scanner reports a lot of false positives, which is something that needs to be improved."
"Deployment can be complicated."
"There could be better management and faster scanning."
"There should be better visibility into the application."
"The software’s pricing could be improved."
"The product should allow users to upload their payloads."
"In certain cases, this product does have false positives, which the company should work on."
"Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install."
"Sometimes, when we are testing embedded devices, when we trigger the test cases, the target will crash immediately. It is very difficult for us to identify the root cause of the crash because they do not provide sophisticated tools on the target side. They cover only the client-side application... They do not have diagnostic tools for the target side. Rather, they have them but they are very minimal and not very helpful."
"It does not support the complete protocol stack. There are some IoT protocols that are not supported and new protocols that are not supported."
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Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 19th in Application Security Tools with 31 reviews while Synopsys Defensics is ranked 5th in Fuzz Testing Tools. Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8, while Synopsys Defensics is rated 8.6. 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 Defensics writes "Technical support provided protocol-specific documentation to prove that some positives were not false". Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Fortify WebInspect, whereas Synopsys Defensics is most compared with Snyk, SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Invicti and HCL AppScan.
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