We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Risk-Based Vulnerability Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product’s most valuable features are compliance, recommendations, and inventories."
"The solution helps identify threats and vulnerabilities."
"One valuable feature is the Microsoft Security Scorecard."
"The solution is up-to-date and helps prevent zero-day attacks."
"The product's stability is very high...The scalability of the product is amazing."
"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."
"We also like the flexibility in their licensing."
"The solution shows us classic categories, including high, medium, and low risks. It also shows critical items, and that gives us the advantage of prioritizing things."
"Technical support is fantastic."
"The most valuable feature is the certificate management."
"It's very configurable to adjust impact to systems."
"Qualys VM's best features are vulnerability management and customizable scoring."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Integration can be improved."
"It is challenging to extract and customize reports from the system."
"The technical support takes too much time to resolve tickets."
"The general support could be improved."
"The setup phase of the product is not that easy and needs a person to have a certain level of expertise."
"The reporting and dashboards could improve in Qualys VM. However, they have improved since the previous versions."
"The only improvement I can think of is on the implementation side. At times it is a bit slow."
"Qualys VM should improve its methodology."
"They should make it accessible for more operating systems."
"Qualys does have an on-prem solution, but it is very expensive."
"Endpoint stability and fault resolution could be improved."
"Could use additional security for the app."
"Qualys could improve the inbuilt dashboards."
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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is ranked 8th in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 5 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is rated 8.2, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management writes "The vulnerability assessment is very accurate because it runs directly into the vulnerability database". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Tanium. See our Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management vs. Qualys VMDR report.
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