Qualys vs. Nessus
Qualys and Nessus are two powerful vulnerability scanning tools with some common features and some unique traits. Qualys is more focused on cloud security monitoring while Nessus is a typical web vulnerability assessment tool. Here's a comparison for you to understand how they fare against each other.
Qualys provides its customers with continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, compliance solutions, and web application firewalls.
Nessus has been in the market for over 20 years and improved its service offerings based on community feedback to become one of the most trusted vulnerability assessment services.
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Nessus
Pricing on the higher side
Nessus provides its top package at $5,888.20 per year. It is built to scan modern attack surfaces to find any vulnerabilities and protect the assets from the same.
Qualys
Pricing not mentioned
Qualys offers a free trial version but does not mention its pricing and packages on the website.
It provides a cloud-based continuous scanning solution and detection of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
Easy to navigate
Nessus provides a point-in-time vulnerability assessment solution that can easily identify vulnerabilities like missing patches, malware, and misconfigurations.
It offers a limited number of scans but ensures zero false positives with its scanning.
Easy to navigate
Qualys provides a web security scanning solution that is easy to use, navigate and set up.
It provides a deep scan of the internal and external environment and even the APIs for web apps and mobile apps.
Does not ensure zero false positives with its scanning which is a drawback of the tool. This leaves the users feeling dissatisfied with the scanning experience.
No Pentest
Nessus mainly opts for thorough vulnerability assessments and as such does not provide manual expert pentesting or a pentest certificate.
No pentest
Qualys does not provide penetration testing. Rather it focuses on the exhaustive scanning of assets to find any unsafe exposed areas within web security.
Remediation support
The advanced remediation support is only available for an additional $472.
This comes with 24*365 access to phone, emails, and chat support. It is a hefty price to pay on top of the price of the package.
Insufficient remediation support
Qualys doesn’t offer a lot in terms of remediation support.
Hence, it essentially dumps the workload back onto the customers once the vulnerabilities are discovered.
Integration
CI/CD integration is possible with Nessus and it partners with IBM Security, Splunk, GitHub, and GitLab.
Integration
Qualys has integrations with Splunk, Cisco, IBM, and more.
However, its lack of well-developed remediation measures acts as a hindrance to seamless CI/CD integrations.
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