We performed a comparison between Fortify WebInspect and Qualys Web Application Scanning based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."When we are integrating it with SSC, we're able to scan and trace and see all of the vulnerabilities. Comparison is easy in SSC."
"There are lots of small settings and tools, like an HTTP editor, that are very useful."
"The solution is able to detect a wide range of vulnerabilities. It's better at it than other products."
"The user interface is ok and it is very simple to use."
"I've found the centralized dashboard the most valuable. For the management, it helps a lot to have abilities at the central level."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Guided Scan option allows us to easily scan and share reports."
"It's a well-known platform for doing dynamic application scanning."
"This product is designed for easy scalability and can easily scale up without major challenges."
"The most valuable feature is that we are able to scan the services and put credentials like a user ID password. We can verify the vulnerability level."
"With our vulnerabilities under control, it's putting our services in compliance and minimizing our risk for exposure."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the progressive scan. It is good. It's done in 24 hours."
"The simplicity of exporting reports and the simplicity and clarity of the reports included with the product are good."
"Qualys WAS' most valuable features are the navigation flow of the UI and the option for a different layer of security (identification and operation through email and mobile)."
"It combines both web application vulnerability management and internal vulnerability management on one platform and dashboard. Usually, you have to purchase separate tools."
"It is a cloud-based solution, so it is easy to scale."
"Our biggest complaint about this product is that it freezes up, and literally doesn't work for us."
"The solution needs better integration with Microsoft's Azure Cloud or an extension of Azure DevOps. In fact, it should better integrate with any cloud provider. Right now, it's quite difficult to integrate with that solution, from the cloud perspective."
"Fortify WebInspect's shortcoming stems from the fact that it is a very expensive product in Korea, which makes it difficult for its potential customers to introduce the product in their IT environment."
"It requires improvement in terms of scanning. The application scan heavily utilizes the resources of an on-premise server. 32 GB RAM is very high for an enterprise web application."
"A localized version, for example, in Korean would be a big improvement to this solution."
"We have had a problem with authentification."
"It took us between eight and ten hours to scan an entire site, which is somewhat slow and something that I think can be improved."
"We have often encountered scanning errors."
"The software’s pricing could be improved."
"The product should allow users to upload their payloads."
"In certain cases, this product does have false positives, which the company should work on."
"The area of false positives could be improved. There are quite a number of false positives as compared to other solutions. They could probably fine tune the algorithm to be able to reduce the number of false positives being detected."
"Qualys Web Application Scanning is very complex to use, and its graphical interface is not very user-friendly."
"There should be better visibility into the application."
"It should have better automatic reporting."
"There could be better management and faster scanning."
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Fortify WebInspect is ranked 2nd in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) with 17 reviews while Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 18th in Application Security Tools with 31 reviews. Fortify WebInspect is rated 7.0, while Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortify WebInspect writes "A powerful tool catering to multiple use cases that provides reasonably good technical support". 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". Fortify WebInspect is most compared with PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Fortify on Demand, Acunetix, OWASP Zap and Veracode, whereas Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, SonarQube, Veracode, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Tenable.io Web Application Scanning. See our Fortify WebInspect vs. Qualys Web Application Scanning report.
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