We performed a comparison between Contrast Security Protect and Qualys Web Application Scanning 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."Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"It is easy to use."
"Qualys' process of updating signatures is something we really appreciate, and it's way ahead of its industry peers."
"The Qualys Web Application Scanning solution offers a single comprehensive console and consolidated reporting, covering all aspects from on-prem to cloud and compliance, etcetera."
"It is a good product for website penetration testing to detect vulnerabilities."
"The product prevents possible vulnerabilities in our network."
"The simplicity of exporting reports and the simplicity and clarity of the reports included with the product are good."
"QualysGuard web-based scanner is very useful for performing external penetration and PCI scans from remote locations."
"This product is designed for easy scalability and can easily scale up without major challenges."
"Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"We receive false positives sometimes when using a solution that could be improved. However, the technical team provides us with the exact explanation why it was giving us that kind of error."
"The pricing does not seem to be competitive."
"The scanner reports a lot of false positives, which is something that needs to be improved."
"The solution needs to adjust its pricing. They should make it more affordable."
"There could be better management and faster scanning."
"The software’s pricing could be improved."
"The product's pricing could be better."
"The UI is not user-friendly and you don't have a yearly reporting facility where you can slice and dice in different jobs."
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Contrast Security Protect is ranked 33rd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews while Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 19th in Application Security Tools with 31 reviews. Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4, while Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Contrast Security Protect writes "It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys Web Application Scanning writes "A stable solution that can be used for infrastructure vulnerability scanning and web application scanning". Contrast Security Protect is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Snyk, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning and Sonatype Lifecycle, whereas Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Fortify WebInspect. See our Contrast Security Protect vs. Qualys Web Application Scanning report.
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