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 feature of the solution is the external channel."
"It's very configurable to adjust impact to systems."
"The most valuable feature is the certificate management."
"The most valuable feature is automation."
"Provides great functionality."
"The most recent is VMDR, which provides a comprehensive overview of how to detect, patch, and remediate specific vulnerabilities."
"It is a simple solution that makes scanning easy. You just give it a scheduled task, and it will do everything for you."
"We also like the flexibility in their licensing."
"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."
"Very customizable with a lot of templates."
"This product has the best results in terms of the lowest number of false-positives and false-negatives."
"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."
"Initial setup was pretty straightforward."
"It basically reviews our threat landscape vulnerability."
"Tenable also helps us to focus resources on the vulnerabilities that are most likely to be exploited. And since it is continuously updated, it allows us to reevaluate quickly if there are new vulnerabilities found..."
"The IoT scan is not great."
"Qualys VM should improve its methodology."
"We are moving away from Qualys to Defender ATP because I find that Defender ATP is much better at prioritizing the vulnerabilities that I should be looking at."
"Qualys could be improved in its overall performance compared to other vulnerability management or scanning tools."
"Integration could be better. When you think about scanning, it's not used just with this product alone but with other Qualys products. If you think about the bundle, the product itself is good. But integration with other products and packages has space for improvement. They should also offer a better price for bundles."
"Qualys VM could improve by having more skilled support personnel."
"The reporting and the GUI need improvements."
"What we have found is that the solution is not closely tied with the patch management. It is okay with newer ones, like Windows 10 machines; it gives the correct patch. But for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008, it does not give us the correct patch so we have to manually identify the patches. This is a major problem."
"A good plugin editor would be a good additional option for the Security Center."
"In terms of configuration, there is some level of flexibility that we are not able to achieve."
"The product should provide risk-based vulnerability management."
"Tenable SC could be improved with additional connectivity to external company postures and the capability of managing and sustaining agents in the systems directly without additional platforms in the middle."
"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."
"The user interface can be improved."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution's user interface has some issues."
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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