We performed a comparison between Pentera and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tenable, Wiz, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Vulnerability Management."The most valuable feature of Pentera is that you can do continuous vulnerability assessment, which is automated."
"The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"Maybe there are some remediation steps on the website, we can mask sensitive information on the website better."
"The product is easy to use."
"What I like the most about Pentera is its solution-oriented approach."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability detection and the scanning capability to enable identification of vulnerabilities across our network."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The integrations for this solution are very good. I use a different product for virtual patching of vulnerabilities and Qualys integrates well with that product."
"The reporting functionality is great."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the external channel."
"Technical support is fantastic."
"I like Qualys because it is a very complete product, more so than Tenable."
"There is room for improvement in virtualization compatibility."
"Maybe scalability. I know that the Pentera right now is high level in order to scan big deals over 500 IPs and not less, and not less. That can be more granular. This will be useful."
"Pentera's general dashboards could be improved and made more specific in terms of vulnerabilities that I'm discovering."
"The price could be improved."
"The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"They're still evolving their platform in terms of reporting capabilities."
"It is a struggle to be able to pull our report and to be able to do onboarding using automated tools."
"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."
"Some of the older features could be polished instead of focusing on releasing new features."
"Qualys VM's scanner doesn't pick up every vulnerability, so we have to use multiple scanners to cover that gap."
"The reporting and dashboards could improve in Qualys VM. However, they have improved since the previous versions."
"When tested on Zero day, there were errors."
"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."
Pentera is ranked 15th in Vulnerability Management with 5 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Pentera is rated 8.2, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Pentera writes "A stable solution that can be used to do continuous and automated vulnerability assessments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Pentera is most compared with Cymulate, Tenable Nessus, Picus Security, Horizon3.ai and XM Cyber, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Wiz.
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