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."The most valuable features are vulnerability detection and the scanning capability to enable identification of vulnerabilities across our network."
"Qualys VM has allowed us to know the vulnerabilities we need to prioritize based on the threat levels and the possible impact if there's an intrusion."
"It is quite easy to implement."
"I like Qualys because it is a very complete product, more so than Tenable."
"The most valuable feature is the connection of threat intelligence information with identified vulnerabilities, which means you can prioritize vulnerabilities according to actual attacks."
"Tech support is helpful."
"The features that are most valuable are the identification, scan features, and the identification of vulnerabilities."
"It is a simple solution that makes scanning easy. You just give it a scheduled task, and it will do everything for you."
"The Auto-Remediate feature is good."
"The tool provides us insight into the happens of the network and its hosts. It provides me with a list of hosts."
"What is useful to me is being able to fulfill very customized scanning policies. In the clinical environment, because of vendor control, we can't perform credential-vulnerability scanning. And network scans, which I've done before, can cause a lot of impact. Being able to create very customized policies to be able to routinely scan and audit our clinical networks, while simultaneously not causing impact, is important to us."
"The solution has a lean and easy-to-use interface that is not confusing to first-time users."
"Support is knowledgeable."
"We use Tenable to scan all of our environments and plugins for vulnerabilities. Tenable helps us discover network vulnerabilities to threats and piracy."
"Feature-wise, Tenable Security Center is a very fast tool with many dashboards and reports, and it covers all our systems."
"The scanning part, the agent part – that's the valuable aspect."
"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."
"It would be nice to have an all-in-one solution that was automated and could handle the scanning and reports as well as the patching and updating."
"Its integration with ServiceNow and other similar products is complicated and can be improved. It should also have virtual batching. They should support more standards and compliance requirements and more customizations. For policy compliance, they can add the standards required by the countries in the Middle East. Each country generates its own standards and frameworks, and those frameworks should be there in all products, not only in Qualys. The market here is huge, especially in the cybersecurity field. Qatar has a framework for Qatar 2022, and each and every company in the public or private sector has to follow the Qatar 2022 framework."
"I would like to see more accuracy in detections, better reporting capabilities, and better dashboard download capabilities."
"I would like to see this solution more developed and competitive in the Cloud space."
"There seems to be a lack of easy onboarding into Qualys."
"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."
"The reporting in this solution can be improved."
"The vulnerability scan does not work correctly until the access privileges are set by the system administrator."
"Tenable SC could improve by making the creation of the initial reports easier that correspond to our network."
"The reporting side can be improved. The dashboards are nice, but exporting things out for reports for management was a little tough."
"The product should provide risk-based vulnerability management."
"The solution is expensive."
"Tenable has some problems with agents going offline during scanning and lag between agents and the security center."
"At times we have had the typical bugs."
"It's good at creating information, it's good creating dashboards, it's good at creating reports, but if you want to take that reporting metadata and put it into another tool, that is a little bit lacking."
Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 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 "A security solution for vulnerability assessment with automated scans". 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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