We performed a comparison between Qualys Web Application Scanning and Veracode based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."By using QualysGuard, we are able to finish external scans with assured results in half the time."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that we are able to scan the services and put credentials like a user ID password. We can verify the vulnerability level."
"The interface is user-friendly and easy to understand."
"It combines both web application vulnerability management and internal vulnerability management on one platform and dashboard. Usually, you have to purchase separate tools."
"Key features include: Cloud-based, so the installation is not so tedious. Easily deployed. Highly scalable. Comprehensive reporting."
"It is a cloud-based solution, so it is easy to scale."
"That it is a cloud-based solution is very valuable to us. We don't need that hardware running our scans and hosting the environment to be scanned. Also, the technology, the static scanning versus dynamic scanning produces a much better result, a more accurate result."
"The integration capabilities with our existing development tools are very good."
"The coverage of backdoors attacks on security that's the most valuable for my clients."
"The Veracode technical support is very good. They are responsive and very knowledgeable."
"The pricing is worth it."
"It eases integration into our workflow. Veracode is part of our Jenkins build, so whenever we build our software, Jenkins will automatically submit the code bundle over to Veracode, which automatically kicks off the static analysis. It sends an email when it's done, and we look at the report."
"I like its integration with GitHub. I like using it from GitHub. I can use the GitHub URL and find out the vulnerabilities."
"The product provides guidance to develop secure software."
"In certain cases, this product does have false positives, which the company should work on."
"We procured around 110 licenses for Web Application Scanning, but we have issues running concurrent scans. I don't currently have the option to trigger scans for all 100-plus websites. The default limit is around 10 conference scans. It's not very scalable, to be honest, because of the limitation that they put on concurrent scans."
"Qualys Web Application Scanning is very complex to use, and its graphical interface is not very user-friendly."
"The software’s pricing could be improved."
"There should be better visibility into the application."
"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."
"The reporting contains too many false positives."
"They should try to include business logic vulnerabilities in the scanner testing."
"It would be ideal if it was able to demonstrate higher levels of cybersecurity certifications like becoming FedRAMP compliant or working in those areas."
"We get some false positives with JavaScript languages like React, TypeScript, and Angular. The problem is rooted in the build process of JavaScript, not the code we are using. This is something we spend lots of time trying to resolve. When we point to a specific library and review that on the code, we can see it is a part of the build that isn't going into production. It's only a part of the build because JavaScript has a different build process."
"Veracode scans provide a higher number of false positives."
"The interface is one thing I find a little challenging. Veracode's interface feels a little outdated compared to other solutions, and it could be modernized. I'm mostly happy with the features, but Vercaode could add Docker image scanning."
"Sometimes Veracode gives us results about small glitches in the necessary packages. For example, we recently found issues with Veracode's native libraries for .NET 6 that were fixed in the next versions of those libraries. But sometimes you do not know which version of the library particular components are using. The downside of that is that one day, the solution found some issues in that library for the necessary package we spent. Another day, it found the same issues with another library. It will clearly state that this is the same stuff you've already analyzed. This creates some additional work, but it isn't significant. However, sometimes you see the same issue for two or three days in a row."
"Veracode would benefit greatly from more training resources. The videos are great, but I would like more hands-on training writing a script, validating a script with a unit test in a different language, etc. That's something that would be very valuable."
"The sandbox could use some improvement; when creating a sandbox, it requires us to put the application name in twice, which seems unnecessary."
"Maybe the pipeline scanning doesn't support enough languages. It might only support Java and Python only, so that could be improved."
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Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 18th in Application Security Tools with 31 reviews while Veracode is ranked 2nd in Application Security Tools with 194 reviews. Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8, while Veracode is rated 8.2. 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 Veracode writes "Helps to reduce false positives and prevent vulnerable code from entering production, but does not support incremental scanning ". Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Fortify WebInspect and Tenable.io Web Application Scanning, whereas Veracode is most compared with SonarQube, Checkmarx One, Fortify on Demand, Snyk and Acunetix. See our Qualys Web Application Scanning vs. Veracode report.
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