Users have noted that Qualys VMDR offers strong automated vulnerability scanning capabilities, comprehensive reporting features, and integration capabilities with other security tools, although there are concerns about the outdated user interface and system performance. On the other hand, Prisma Cloud is praised for its competitive pricing, ease of deployment, and comprehensive security capabilities.
The summary above is based on 142 interviews we conducted recently with Qualys VMDR and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Prisma Cloud's inventory reporting is pretty good."
"It also provides us with a single tool to manage our entire cloud architecture. In fact, we are using a multi-account strategy with our AWS organization. We use Prisma as a single source of truth to identify high- or medium-severity threats inside our organization."
"The runtime mechanism on the solution is very useful. It's got very good network mapping between containers. If you have more than one container, you can create a content data link between them."
"One of the most valuable features is the compliance of RedLock, which we are using for any issues with security. It flags them and that's the primary objective of that feature."
"Prisma scans things and shows all the vulnerabilities and packages that are vulnerable, and which layers, by default, have vulnerabilities. So developers can easily go into the package or a particular layer and make changes to their code. It's very transparent."
"The most valuable feature of Prisma Cloud is WAF (web application firewall)."
"It provides insights into potential vulnerabilities in our code, helping us identify and rectify issues before they can be exploited."
"The most valuable features are the alerts and auto-remediation because it allows us a lot of flexibility to customize and do things the Palo Alto team never intended. We faced some challenges with certificates because we also have next-gen firewalls. We would like to equip all the traffic because there have been many cases in which the developers have done things by mistake. Deploying certificates on virtual machines can be complex in a development environment, but we managed to do that with Prisma Cloud."
"It gives a very good overview of the inventory assessment process, and it can be accessed across our company because it's a global tool."
"Great web application security for scanning."
"Detects new hosts along with vulnerabilities."
"The reporting functionality is great."
"Performs automated, regular scans in the network."
"Provides great functionality."
"The process of defining and discovering scans is organized efficiently."
"The initial setup was good. We didn't have any problems with it."
"For some custom policies, we need more features."
"While Prisma provides a lot of visibility, it also creates a ton of work. Most customers that implement Prisma Cloud have thousands of alerts that are urgent."
"It's not really on par with, or catering to, what other products are looking at in terms of SAST and DAST capabilities. For those, you'd probably go to the market and look at something like Veracode or WhiteHat."
"We'd like to have more native integration with clouds and additional security checks in the future."
"The challenge that Palo Alto and Prisma have is that, at times, the instructions in an event are a little bit dated and they're not usable. That doesn't apply to all the instructions, but there are times where, for example, the Microsoft or the Amazon side has made some changes and Palo Alto or Prisma was not aware of them. So as we try to remediate an alert in such a case, the instructions absolutely do not work. Then we open up a ticket and they'll reply, "Oh yeah, the API for so-and-so vendor changed and we'll have to work with them on that." That area could be done a little better."
"Sometimes, when you assign subnets to regions, the IP address will jump from one location to another because it will automatically change substantially. Then, we need to add those IP subnets to our firewall for existing access. The need to update those subnets potentially causes maintenance or access issues. So far, we can only provide bigger customers with six subnets, and a small company may not be able to access those services."
"The alignment of Twistlock Defender agents with image repositories needs improvement. These deployed agents have no way of differentiating between on-premise and cloud-based image repositories. If I deploy a Defender agent to secure an on-premise Kubernetes cluster, that agent also tries to scan my ECR image repositories on AWS. So, we have limited options for aligning those Defenders with the repositories that we want them to scan. It is scanning everything rather than giving us the ability to be real granular in choosing which agents can scan which repositories."
"We had some teething issues with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, but overall, it did what we expected."
"They should make it accessible for more operating systems."
"I would like to see this solution more developed and competitive in the Cloud space."
"Make some minimal dashboard improvements."
"The customer support is very bad."
"Could use additional security for the app."
"There seems to be a lack of easy onboarding into Qualys."
"The disadvantage of working with Qualys is that the graphical interface is quite outdated."
"The reporting and dashboards could improve in Qualys VM. However, they have improved since the previous versions."
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Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 1st in Container Security with 82 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 11th in Container Security with 77 reviews. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The dashboard is very user-friendly and can be used to generate custom RQL based on user requirements". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and AWS WAF, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security. See our Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Qualys VMDR report.
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