We performed a comparison between Darktrace and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, TitanHQ and others in Email Security."It also gives me good visibility because, with Defender, I'm using a Microsoft product to defend Microsoft products. The integration was really seamless and I have wide visibility because it picks up almost everything. Literally, I can see almost every activity that happens, from the e-mail to the workstation itself."
"The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender."
"It also gives the vulnerability status according to the versions you have selected. Let's say you have Google Chrome. It mentions the versions it has, and it updates. Within two hours of an update, it is reflected in the dashboard. That's really nice to have."
"Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization."
"The solution is very easy to use. All you have to do is to assign the license to the end-user and it's done. The customer will only have the feature activated, and the solution will monitor the emails to determine if they are a threat or not."
"The deployment capability is a great feature."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 has improved my organization's security. It makes it easier to manage the infrastructure without the help of third-party applications."
"Defender is a SaaS platform, so it offers more flexibility. Managing the permissions is easier. The solution's automated detection and response features are scalable."
"It is a stable solution without downtime."
"It has helped the organization to detect any malware affecting the machines...The network monitoring and the email monitoring features are very valuable for us."
"The most valuable feature of Darktrace is the AI that detects abnormal network activity."
"The product can scale."
"It is a stable solution."
"I find the complete portfolio to be excellent."
"The most valuable features of Darktrace are its full capabilities. You have visibility of everything."
"The most valuable feature is that it gives us visibility of rogue traffic that is on the network."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Technical support is fantastic."
"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 biggest benefit is from a security operations perspective, where we are able to drive our security posture upwards by remediating any discovered vulnerabilities."
"The reporting is fine."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability detection and the scanning capability to enable identification of vulnerabilities across our network."
"Qualys VM's most valuable feature is automatic detection."
"Qualys VM is very stable."
"We need to be able to whitelist data at the backend."
"In one of the reports I can get the exact place where a vulnerable file resides. But for that, I need to explicitly go into the device and check. If they could include that file part in the report, without my having to go to the device itself, that would help."
"You should be able to deploy Defender for every subscription without the need to add servers."
"They can improve their security in a way where a customer can know if all their attachments are safe or not to open through a report. The solution does its job perfectly, but it never reports to the customer whether those attachments have been stopped before or not."
"One area for improvement is support, in terms of being able to reach them and, especially, technical support for configuration."
"I'd like some additional features any product can give me to protect our environment in a better way."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"This product's effectiveness could be improved, in terms of detecting unwanted spam or even malware between the emails, compared to other products."
"The price point for the product was too high for what our possible use case could be."
"I think there is some MSSP missing."
"Darktrace requires numerous configurations. It would be beneficial if the configuration could be made simpler."
"It should be easier to access the Darktrace portal and its documentation. Only the customer can access their portal and support. It could be cheaper."
"It would be helpful if they could recognize incidents and simplify the customer's challenge to identify what is happening."
"Darktrace is a closed technology, meaning we know very little about how it works, including the architecture, which is significant. As a result, when we implement the system and find we're getting many false positives, we have minimal insight into why it's happening and what we can do to fix it. We don't know how the solution is configured, the criteria for threats to be determined, or the product's inner workings. We understand that they have to ensure privacy and their copyright, but we want to see some documentation or public research into the security Darktrace provides."
"In the next version, I'd like to see penetration testing."
"The cost is a bit on the higher side."
"Qualys Container Security can improve the interface. It could be easier to navigate and be enriched."
"There seems to be a lack of easy onboarding into Qualys."
"I would like to see more accuracy in detections, better reporting capabilities, and better dashboard download capabilities."
"It is a struggle to be able to pull our report and to be able to do onboarding using automated tools."
"The reporting in this solution can be improved."
"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."
"Qualys currently does not have any features for scanning SCADA, IoT, and Industrial Control Systems."
"The reporting and the GUI need improvements."
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Darktrace is ranked 11th in Email Security with 66 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Darktrace is rated 8.2, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Darktrace writes "Great autonomous support, offers an easy setup, and has responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and ExtraHop Reveal(x), whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM and Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management.
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