We performed a comparison between Qualys VMDR and RedSeal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7 and others in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management."The most valuable feature is that this solution is very lightweight."
"It's stable and quite reliable."
"Monitors workstations and servers for vulnerabilities and creates reports."
"Qualys VM's most valuable feature is automatic detection."
"The reporting functionality is great."
"They also have threat detection which maps threats. There is a feed that comes from Qualys when a new vulnerability is found. It tells us which machines are infected with that vulnerability."
"This solution gives us insight into our environment and improves our security. It helps us to maintain a good patching system whereby we know that XYZ is vulnerable within the system."
"The initial setup was good. We didn't have any problems with it."
"This is the only solution in the world that gives you a digital resilience score."
"The most valuable features are network mapping and configuration."
"RedSeal integrates the network and gives us a visual or graphical overview of our network. If an organization is geographically dispersed, for instance, with one office in Canada and one office in the Philippines, the whole network, including all devices, is integrated into RedSeal, and you can see from where the traffic is going in and out."
"The only improvement I can think of is on the implementation side. At times it is a bit slow."
"The reporting and dashboards could improve in Qualys VM. However, they have improved since the previous versions."
"Qualys VM could improve by having more skilled support personnel."
"Improve the API speed."
"The reporting needs improvement. It should generate much more stuff like field reports."
"Qualys VMDR is basically susceptible to false positives, and false negatives."
"Finding things in management can be quite difficult."
"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."
"One of the areas of concern is the GUI. It is important to our customers that the GUI looks beautiful. It's a Java Client, so you have a Java dependency."
"The dashboard should be improved to make correlating data easier to do."
"Sometimes, it required us to refresh the configuration. When we integrated any of the configurations into the device, sometimes, it could not detect the exact picture of that device. So, we had to reset the device to see that if it was giving true-positive results or false-positive results. In some cases, we were not able to get true-positive results. There was some kind of bug in that version. Its interface is not user-friendly and needs to be improved. It takes time to understand the interface and various options. Skybox has quite a user-friendly interface. They could provide a feature for compliance audit policy if it is already not there. A compliance audit policy ensures that all configurations are based on the best practices standards, such as CIS benchmarks standard or other similar standards. It provides visibility about whether your device configuration is based on best practices or not. Usually, such a feature is provided by other solutions such as Meteor or Tenable Nessus."
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Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews while RedSeal is ranked 21st in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management. Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2, while RedSeal 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 RedSeal writes "Provides a graphical overview of our network and is easy to deploy, but needs a user-friendly interface and a feature for compliance audit policy". Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management, whereas RedSeal is most compared with Skybox Security Suite, AlgoSec, FireMon Security Manager, Ekahau Site Survey and Darktrace.
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