We performed a comparison between Forescout Platform and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, HPE Aruba Networking, Fortinet and others in Network Access Control (NAC)."It's one of the tools that has given the federal government visibility into network devices and everything."
"Vulnerability remediation is valuable. We can narrow down a system and its properties. We can go granular on the properties of each endpoint, such as which operating system you're using."
"The initial setup is quite simple. It's not too complex or difficult to set up."
"Ease of deployment There's a great support team that becomes actively engaged whenever we encounter issues. Their technical support is amazing. Good documentation is available. The product is stable. The solution is highly scalable. I recommend using the solution because it gives verified control over the environment. It has a great visibility feature."
"Its feature that I have found most valuable is that it is very granular. You can configure granular controls just as you want those policies to be implemented. It gives you that flexibility to go granular in how you want your controls to be implemented. That's something I like about it."
"The actions that the agentless visibility, allow us to perform on the endpoint, are really amazing, especially in the way that it is done."
"The most valuable features of ForeScout is the fact that it can do network access control either with 802.1x or without 802.1x."
"This is clearly the best product for the NAC use cases in this field for Forescout."
"The prioritization feature is great. I think it has all of the advanced features that we need."
"Detects new hosts along with vulnerabilities."
"Performs automated, regular scans in the network."
"The most valuable feature is the certificate management."
"Qualys has a continuous endpoint monitoring feature for agent-based scanning. Once you deploy the solution, it monitors everything that is happening every 30 minutes. Then, if there are any vulnerabilities, they are reported."
"They also have threat detection which maps threats. There is a feed that comes from Qualys when a new vulnerability is found. It tells us which machines are infected with that vulnerability."
"I find the solution's dashboard interesting...The response time is fine. You can pull up reports without dragging or consuming bandwidth."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the external channel."
"More detailed analysis during the authentication process, especially for troubleshooting access issues. We have found that troubleshooting RADIUS controls is quite arduous, as it is today. A trace function could easily resolve this by providing a means by which access issues from a certificate to passwords or accounts could easily be identified and remediated."
"Forescout Platform needs to improve how the device works in preventing rogue servers."
"Regarding pricing, there is room for improvement to enhance competitiveness with other vendors and solutions."
"We have found that the agent-based authentication, available within this solution could be improved."
"Forescout Platform could improve the costs of integrations."
"Forescout Platform isn't flexible with connections to devices like printers and forces you to re-enter details like the MAC address after any breakdowns."
"We experienced some detection issues when checking compliance for the Sophos agent."
"Search - needs boolean functionality (or pseudo operand now working)."
"We face issues while scanning multiple assets."
"Improve the API speed."
"The customer support is very bad."
"Qualys VM's scanner doesn't pick up every vulnerability, so we have to use multiple scanners to cover that gap."
"Qualys VM's vulnerability scan could be improved, especially the number of CVE numbers it can manage at a time."
"They should make it accessible for more operating systems."
"When you want to cover yourself for scalability, you will be charged for the number you place on the scan itself."
"Reports were lacking somewhat on the customization side."
Forescout Platform is ranked 4th in Network Access Control (NAC) with 69 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Forescout Platform is rated 8.4, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Forescout Platform writes "We can go granular on each endpoint, quarantine non-compliant machines, and target vulnerabilities through scripting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Forescout Platform is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Nozomi Networks and Armis, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management.
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