We performed a comparison between Qualys Web Application Scanning and Seeker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Testing (AST)."Licensing is the most valuable. Qualys provides the best licensing for companies. It is the best product for the development purposes of web applications. The product has a lot of integrations."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the progressive scan. It is good. It's done in 24 hours."
"We can do scanning and submit reports straight to the customers when there are new vulnerabilities, then tell them whether they are affected or not."
"The interface is user-friendly and easy to understand."
"The product prevents possible vulnerabilities in our network."
"Key features include: Cloud-based, so the installation is not so tedious. Easily deployed. Highly scalable. Comprehensive reporting."
"It is a very stable solution."
"It works with many different products."
"A significant advantage of Seeker is that it is an interactive scanner, and we have found it to be much more effective in reducing the amount of false positives than dynamic scanners such as AppScan, Micro Focus Fortify, etc. Furthermore, with Seeker, we are finding more and more valid (i.e. "true") positives over time compared with the dynamic scanners."
"The UI is not user-friendly and you don't have a yearly reporting facility where you can slice and dice in different jobs."
"They should try to include business logic vulnerabilities in the scanner testing."
"The reporting contains too many false positives."
"The pricing does not seem to be competitive."
"There should be better visibility into the application."
"The product should allow users to upload their payloads."
"The support could be faster."
"The scanner reports a lot of false positives, which is something that needs to be improved."
"One area that Seeker can improve is to make it more customizable. All security scanning tools have a defined set of rules that are based on certain criteria which they will use to detect issues. However, the criteria that you set initially is not something that all applications are going to need."
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Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 14th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 31 reviews while Seeker is ranked 24th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 1 review. Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8, while Seeker is rated 7.0. 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 Seeker writes "More effective than dynamic scanners, but is missing useful learning capabilities". Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Fortify WebInspect, whereas Seeker is most compared with Synopsys API Security Testing, Coverity, Contrast Security Assess, Polaris Software Integrity Platform and SonarQube.
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