We performed a comparison between Qualys VMDR and Snyk based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Qualys VMDR is praised for its user-friendly interface, prioritization system, and customizable dashboard. It effectively addresses vulnerabilities and offers valuable scanning capabilities. Snyk users highlighted its developer-friendly approach, automatic pull requests, and software composition analysis features. Reviewers said Qualys VMDR could improve by offering more customization options and integrating more seamlessly with other systems. The interface could be clearer, and Qualys could enhance scanning capabilities for IoT and industrial control systems. Snyk should focus on improving compatibility, reporting, and automatic remediation.
Service and Support: Qualys VMDR's customer service is mostly considered accessible and responsive. However, some reviewers reported slow response times and expressed a desire for more skilled support personnel. Some Snyk customers found the solution's support to be dependable. Others say Snyk should overhaul how it categorizes and prioritizes support requests. Both products offer sufficient support, but Qualys VMDR appears to leave a more positive impression in terms of customer service.
Ease of Deployment: Qualys VMDR is considered uncomplicated and efficient, requiring only a short amount of time. A few users encountered challenges with integration and ensuring data privacy. Snyk users were somewhat divided about the product's setup difficulty. Some found it to be straightforward and fast, while others needed additional guidance. The time needed to implement Snyk could range from several days up to a couple of weeks.
Pricing: The cost of Qualys VMDR varies depending on the organization's business requirements. Some find it affordable, but others consider it costly compared to alternatives. Snyk's pricing is on the higher end of the spectrum, but it is regarded as reasonably priced for the features it offers.
ROI: Qualys VMDR is highly efficient in identifying vulnerabilities and reducing risks. Snyk offers a cost-effective solution for addressing bugs sooner in the development process, offsetting the high annual subscription fees.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Qualys VMDR over Snyk for its robust features, such as continuous monitoring and a customizable dashboard. Users appreciate the great technical support and find the solution stable and reliable. Snyk needs improvement in terms of reporting and customer support. Also, Qualys VMDR's pricing is competitive, while Snyk's license is relatively expensive.
"Tech support is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the certificate management."
"Intuitive and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Qualys Container Security is the detailed information in the reports and the remediation. This is done to make sure there are no vulnerabilities."
"Performs automated, regular scans in the network."
"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."
"The prioritization feature is great. I think it has all of the advanced features that we need."
"Qualys VM's best features are vulnerability management and customizable scoring."
"Snyk is a good and scalable tool."
"I find SCA to be valuable. It can read your libraries, your license and bring the best way to resolve your problem in the best scenario."
"The solution's vulnerability database, in terms of comprehensiveness and accuracy, is very high-level. As far as I know, it's the best among their competitors."
"The product's most valuable features are an open-source platform, remote functionality, and good pricing."
"Static code analysis is one of the best features of the solution."
"Its reports are nice and provide information about the issue as well as resolution. They also provide a proper fix. If there's an issue, they provide information in detail about how to remediate that issue."
"The code scans on the source code itself were valuable."
"It has a nice dashboard where I can see all the vulnerabilities and risks that they provided. I can also see the category of any risk, such as medium, high, and low. They provide the input priority-wise. The team can target the highest one first, and then they can go to medium and low ones."
"Qualys VM's machine learning and artificial intelligence features could be improved."
"When you want to cover yourself for scalability, you will be charged for the number you place on the scan itself."
"The price could be better. Asset view is still a legacy feature. I'm not able to extract the information about the asset with complete details. It would be better if they fixed that in the next release. I know Qualys is already working on it, so I'm hopeful it will be available in the next five or six months. That would be something that's changed where I seek improvement."
"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."
"It's quite complex on the way it is set up, so it takes a fair bit of time in order to get your head around it in order to deploy it. Once you've deployed it, then you're never confident on the versions of the browsers and the SSL certificates, etc. You have to always go back into Qualys and check."
"I would like to see more accuracy in detections, better reporting capabilities, and better dashboard download capabilities."
"There seems to be a lack of easy onboarding into Qualys."
"They should make it accessible for more operating systems."
"They were a couple of issues which happened because Snyk lacked some documentation on the integration side. Snyk is lacking a lot of documentation, and I would like to see them improve this. This is where we struggle a bit. For example, if something breaks, we can't figure out how to fix that issue. It may be a very simple thing, but because we don't have the proper documentation around an issue, it takes us a bit longer."
"It can be improved from the reporting perspective and scanning perspective. They can also improve it on the UI front."
"We would like to have upfront knowledge on how easy it should be to just pull in an upgraded dependency, e.g., even introduce full automation for dependencies supposed to have no impact on the business side of things. Therefore, we would like some output when you get the report with the dependencies. We want to get additional information on the expected impact of the business code that is using the dependency with the newer version. This probably won't be easy to add, but it would be helpful."
"A feature we would like to see is the ability to archive and store historical data, without actually deleting it. It's a problem because it throws my numbers off. When I'm looking at the dashboard's current vulnerabilities, it's not accurate."
"Snyk's API and UI features could work better in terms of speed."
"The tool should provide more flexibility and guidance to help us fix the top vulnerabilities before we go into production."
"It would be great if they can include dynamic, interactive, and run-time scanning features. Checkmarx and Veracode provide dynamic, interactive, and run-time scanning, but Snyk doesn't do that. That's the reason there is more inclination towards Veracode, Checkmarx, or AppScan. These are a few tools available in the market that do all four types of scanning: static, dynamic, interactive, and run-time."
"It lists projects. So, if you have a number of microservices in an enterprise, then you could have pages of findings. Developers will then spend zero time going through the pages of reports to figure out, "Is there something I need to fix?" While it may make sense to list all the projects and issues in these very long lists for completeness, Snyk could do a better job of bubbling up and grouping items, e.g., a higher level dashboard that draws attention to things that are new, the highest priority things, or things trending in the wrong direction. That would make it a lot easier. They don't quite have that yet in container security."
Qualys VMDR is ranked 11th in Container Security with 76 reviews while Snyk is ranked 5th in Container Security with 41 reviews. Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2, while Snyk 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 Snyk writes "Performs software composition analysis (SCA) similar to other expensive tools". Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management, whereas Snyk is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck, Fortify Static Code Analyzer, Veracode and GitHub Advanced Security. See our Qualys VMDR vs. Snyk report.
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