We performed a comparison between Fortify WebInspect and Qualys Web Application Scanning based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Fortify WebInspect is a scalable solution, it is good for a lot of applications."
"Technical support has been good."
"There are lots of small settings and tools, like an HTTP editor, that are very useful."
"Reporting, centralized dashboard, and bird's eye view of all vulnerabilities are the most valuable features."
"I've found the centralized dashboard the most valuable. For the management, it helps a lot to have abilities at the central level."
"Guided Scan option allows us to easily scan and share reports."
"Good at scanning and finding vulnerabilities."
"The user interface is ok and it is very simple to use."
"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)."
"The Qualys Web Application Scanning solution offers a single comprehensive console and consolidated reporting, covering all aspects from on-prem to cloud and compliance, etcetera."
"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."
"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 a good product for website penetration testing to detect vulnerabilities."
"The product prevents possible vulnerabilities in our network."
"This product is designed for easy scalability and can easily scale up without major challenges."
"The interface is user-friendly and easy to understand."
"It took us between eight and ten hours to scan an entire site, which is somewhat slow and something that I think can be improved."
"I'm not sure licensing, but on the pricing, it's a bit costly. It's a bit overpriced. Though it is an enterprise tool, there are other tools also with similar functionalities."
"Creating reports is very slow and it is something that should be improved."
"Fortify WebInspect could improve user-friendliness. Additionally, it is very bulky to use."
"We have had a problem with authentification."
"Fortify WebInspect's shortcoming stems from the fact that it is a very expensive product in Korea, which makes it difficult for its potential customers to introduce the product in their IT environment."
"One thing I would like to see them introduce is a cloud-based platform."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The pricing does not seem to be competitive."
"There should be better visibility into the application."
"The scanner reports a lot of false positives, which is something that needs to be improved."
"There could be better management and faster scanning."
"There's a distinction between internal and external scanning processes that could be streamlined. Currently, for internal scanning, specific configurations and scanner appliances need to be deployed within the network, which differs from the simpler setup for external scans. This dual process complicates the setup for comprehensive scanning coverage."
"It should have better automatic reporting."
"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."
"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."
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Fortify WebInspect is ranked 2nd in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) with 17 reviews while Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 19th in Application Security Tools with 31 reviews. Fortify WebInspect is rated 7.0, while Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortify WebInspect writes "A powerful tool catering to multiple use cases that provides reasonably good technical support". 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". Fortify WebInspect is most compared with PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Fortify on Demand, Acunetix, OWASP Zap and Veracode, whereas Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Tenable.io Web Application Scanning. See our Fortify WebInspect vs. Qualys Web Application Scanning report.
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