We performed a comparison between Qualys VMDR and Skybox Security Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Risk-Based Vulnerability Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The Vulnerability Management and Patch Management features are the most valuable features of this solution."
"What I like about Qualys VM is the dashboard presentation. It's very good."
"The reporting functionality is great."
"The most valuable feature is that this solution is very lightweight."
"The integrations for this solution are very good. I use a different product for virtual patching of vulnerabilities and Qualys integrates well with that product."
"It's very configurable to adjust impact to systems."
"The initial setup was good. We didn't have any problems with it."
"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 most valuable features are the rule compliance and the OS vulnerability checks."
"The most valuable features are Firewall Assurance and Vulnerability Control."
"The way that it's built with three-tier architecture, it makes it very horizontally scalable, so I can have multiple fallbacks. If one machine does fall offline, there are four other machines that are doing the exact same job to pick it up"
"The most valuable feature is firewall management."
"The port division management was the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The most valuable feature is the compliance, whether it's access compliance or the configuration compliance, to make sure that all of our devices are configured as they're supposed to be, to limit access as much possible, to follow least-access guidelines."
"We use Network Assurance for network visualisation and troubleshooting."
"The ability to appropriately prioritize vulnerabilities inside the environment, and then to have visibility into the traffic and rule sets of an organization, are two of the top capabilities that I recommend. Skybox is the only one that does both of those in a single platform."
"Could use additional security for the app."
"The price could be better. Asset view is still a legacy feature. I'm not able to extract the information about the asset with complete details. It would be better if they fixed that in the next release. I know Qualys is already working on it, so I'm hopeful it will be available in the next five or six months. That would be something that's changed where I seek improvement."
"I do not like that all of the data is stored on the cloud."
"The disadvantage of working with Qualys is that the graphical interface is quite outdated."
"The only improvement I can think of is on the implementation side. At times it is a bit slow."
"It's not very user-friendly at times and requires in-depth understanding. So, a layman or someone new to Qualys won't be able to easily understand it. You need education to use the solution."
"They should make it accessible for more operating systems."
"Reports were lacking somewhat on the customization side."
"The initial setup with Skybox Security is hard. You need one or two strong security engineers on your team."
"There is room for improvement in the technical support."
"The vendor's support is terrible."
"I've had issues with licensing where, when they were expiring and I asked for the updated licenses, I would the wrong ones. I think their process needs to be straightened out a little bit - I don't know if they fixed it already, it has been awhile. It wasn't as straightforward as it could have been."
"The price could be cheaper."
"Reporting. A lot of the reports, out of the box, are limited to a certain number of either configuration violations or access rule violations. So when you first set up a new firewall to be monitored by Skybox, you don't get a real full report. You have to really tweak it to get everything."
"The primary room for improvement would be to enable a web interface, which is not something which is there in the product. This is supposed to have come a year, a year and a half ago, but still has failed to come out. It still needs a client application to be installed on a workstation to be able to access that server and then run these reports. So I cannot extend that access to anybody. It has to be one administrator all the time. So unlike a web interface, where you can give multiple users simultaneous access and generate the various reports, that isn't a possibility at the moment."
"The stability is something that is questionable. I don't know whether it is because of the kind of infrastructure we have or because of the product in itself. We're running it on a virtual machine right now. Maybe once a month, or once in every 45 days, it requires a restart because the application fails to connect. So I have to restart the whole Skybox Manager itself, the Skybox server itself, and then connect to it from our Skybox Manager."
Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 19th in Vulnerability Management with 34 reviews. Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Balbix BreachControl. See our Qualys VMDR vs. Skybox Security Suite report.
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