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We performed a comparison between Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Container Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs. Qualys VMDR Report (Updated: May 2024).
772,422 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"PingSafe can integrate all your cloud accounts and resources you create in the AWS account, We have set it up to scan the AWS transfer services, EC2, security groups, and GitHub.""PingSafe released a new security graph tool that helps us identify the root issue. Other tools give you a pass/fail type of profile on all misconfigurations, and those will run into the thousands. PingSafe's graphing algorithm connects various components together and tries to identify what is severe and what is not. It can correlate various vulnerabilities and datasets to test them on the back end to pinpoint the real issue.""It is pretty easy to integrate with this platform. When properly integrated, it monitors end-to-end.""The UI is very good.""The most valuable feature of PingSafe is its integration with most of our technology stack, specifically all of our cloud platforms and ticketing software.""Cloud Native Security helps us discover vulnerabilities in a cloud environment like open ports that allow people to attack our environment. If someone unintentionally opens a port, we are exposed. Cloud Native Security alerts us so we can remediate the problem. We can also automate it so that Cloud Native Security will fix it.""All the features we use are equal and get the job done.""The most valuable feature of the solution is its storyline, which helps trace an event back to its source, like an email or someone clicking on a link."

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"AKS as a service is very good when you need to leverage applications or functions with much variability in their usage because you're trying to be as efficient as you can with resources.""The platform's high scalability is one of its biggest advantages.""The product has built-in functionality that checks whether the service is available or not. In case the service is down, the tool will create a new instance by default. Hence, the web API will be always up irrespective of the server or the situation.""The serverless capability and auto scale feature are the most valuable.""It employs high availability.""We find the container orchestration tool that this solution provides to be very valuable.""We like how easy it is to create the resources in this solution, thanks to how easy the UI is to use.""Integration and automation are the best features of the solution."

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"The most valuable feature is the connection of threat intelligence information with identified vulnerabilities, which means you can prioritize vulnerabilities according to actual attacks.""The most valuable feature is that this solution is very lightweight.""The features that are most valuable are the identification, scan features, and the identification of vulnerabilities.""The most valuable feature is automation.""Vulnerability management is the most valuable one and it’s a must in every organization.""It is quite easy to implement.""The most valuable feature is the certificate management.""I find the solution's dashboard interesting...The response time is fine. You can pull up reports without dragging or consuming bandwidth."

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Cons
"We are experiencing problems with Cloud Native Security reporting.""With Cloud Native Security, we can't selectively enable or disable alerts based on our specific use case.""There is no break-glass account feature. They should implement this as soon as possible because we can't implement SSO without a break-glass feature.""The could improve their mean time to detect.""Their search feature could be better.""I would like PingSafe to add real-time detection of vulnerabilities and cloud misconfigurations.""PingSafe's current documentation could be improved to better assist customers during the cluster onboarding process.""Bugs need to be disclosed quickly."

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"There are a lot of features that should be included with the AKS.""One area that could be improved is the Azure CLI. It would be beneficial if they could abstract some of the complexities related to deployment scripts and make them a part of Azure CLI.""I would like to see the stability get more synchronized.""Unfortunately, when a microservice fails, Azure can take up to 60 seconds to broadcast an alert to the monitoring agents.""We would like to see the addition of a service report from the server for this solution, so that we can monitor the health of server operations.""The technical support could be faster.""In terms of cost perspective, they could make the product more affordable.""It can be tough to access the servers when onboarding."

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"Could use additional security for the app.""The tool needs to improve the adding assets and report generation features. I would like to see the policy scan of offline appliances in the product's future releases.""I would like to have CSPM, a continuous scan-like cloud added to the solution.""The ability to manage user accounts and give rights to the operator to know about abnormalities of applications is something that needs improvement.""Qualys VM could improve by having more skilled support personnel.""The customer support is very bad.""It is a struggle to be able to pull our report and to be able to do onboarding using automated tools.""I do not like that all of the data is stored on the cloud."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "As a partner, we receive a discount on the licenses."
  • "It's a fair price for what you get. We are happy with the price as it stands."
  • "I wasn't sure what to expect from the pricing, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a little less than I thought."
  • "Singularity Cloud Workload Security's pricing is good."
  • "Singularity Cloud Workload Security's licensing and price were cheaper than the other solutions we looked at."
  • "I understand that SentinelOne is a market leader, but the bill we received was astronomical."
  • "It's not expensive. The product is in its initial growth stages and appears more competitive compared to others. It comes in different variants, and I believe the enterprise version costs around $55 per user per year. I would rate it a five, somewhere fairly moderate."
  • "The pricing is fair. It is not inexpensive, and it is also not expensive. When managing a large organization, it is going to be costly, but it meets the business needs. In terms of what is out there on the market, it is fair and comparable to what I have seen, so I do not have any complaints about the cost"
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  • "As you scale your operations, AKS becomes more cost-effective."
  • "We could spend as little as $25 or $30 a month on Kubernetes Services, compared to the typical $100 a month expenditure for a virtual machine."
  • "The cost of the solution is extremely high. Both Amazon and Azure cost extremely high. Given the basic features like when they are coming over the cluster nodes, we think over ten times before giving the solution to clients. No matter how many offerings the solution provides, it becomes so much of a burden that you are not even getting back your invested money from customers."
  • "The control plane is free and we only pay for the usage and time."
  • "It is expensive compared to other vendors."
  • "The product follows a pay-as-you-go pricing model which is good for small enterprises. You need to pay only for the services that you use."
  • "It is an expensive solution."
  • "The price of AKS is expensive. We pay approximately $10,000 monthly."
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  • "Usually every implementation is different and the quote is in function of number of assets."
  • "When you want to cover yourself for scalability, you will be charged for the number you place on the scan itself."
  • "It is more expensive than other products on the market."
  • "They have recently changed the pricing model, which is now better than it was before."
  • "It is different for every company, but for us, it's every three years."
  • "Qualys is cheaper and more affordable than other solutions."
  • "The pricing and licensing for Qualys could be improved."
  • "The license is on a yearly basis."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The dashboard gives me an overview of all the things happening in the product, making it one of the tool's best… more »
    Top Answer:When I joined my organization, I saw that PingSafe was already implemented. I started to use the tool's alerting… more »
    Top Answer:The platform's high scalability is one of its biggest advantages.
    Top Answer:In terms of cost perspective, they could make the product more affordable.
    Top Answer:Our primary use case for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is containerizing and deploying microservices applications for… more »
    Top Answer:Qualys VM is used for vulnerability scans for the internet and applications using application exchange. There are many… more »
    Top Answer:I like that we have many scanners and channels that don't overload. It helps us scan and track easily. Also, the tagging… more »
    Top Answer:We have an annual contract for Qualys VMDR. I believe it's for either two years or five years.
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    Also Known As
    PingSafe
    Qualys VM, QualysGuard VM, Qualys Asset Inventory, Qualys Container Security, Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance
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    Overview

    Singularity Cloud Security is SentinelOne’s comprehensive, cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). It combines the best of agentless insights with AI-powered threat protection, to secure and protect your multi-cloud infrastructure, services, and containers from build time to runtime. SentinelOne’s CNAPP applies an attacker’s mindset to help security practitioners better prioritize their  remediation tasks with evidence-backed Verified Exploit Paths™. The efficient and scalable runtime protection, proven over 5 years and trusted by many of the world’s leading cloud enterprises, harnesses local, autonomous AI engines to detect and thwart runtime threats in real-time. CNAPP data and workload telemetry is recorded to SentinelOne’s unified security lake, for easy access and investigation.

    Singularity Cloud Security includes both agentless and AI-powered cloud security controls, which represent two halves of our strategy to keep public cloud and container environments safe. Radically reduce your cloud attack surface with Singularity Cloud Native Security, formerly PingSafe, with agentless insights and evidence-based prioritization; protect runtime compute and container with Singularity Cloud Workload Security, SentinelOne’s real-time CWPP, with AI-powered machine-speed blocking of threats.

    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a fully managed container orchestration service provided by Microsoft Azure. It simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications using Kubernetes. With AKS, developers can focus on building applications while Azure takes care of the underlying infrastructure. It offers features like automatic scaling, monitoring, and security, ensuring high availability and reliability. AKS integrates seamlessly with other Azure services, enabling easy integration with existing workflows. It also provides a flexible and open-source environment, allowing developers to use their preferred tools and frameworks. With AKS, organizations can accelerate their application development and deployment processes, while reducing operational overheads.

    Vulnerability Management, Detection, and Response (VMDR) is a cornerstone product of the Qualys TruRisk Platform and a global leader in the enterprise-grade vulnerability management (VM) vendor space. With VMDR, enterprises are empowered with visibility and insight into cyber risk exposure - making it easy to prioritize vulnerabilities, assets, or groups of assets based on business risk. Security teams can take action to mitigate risk, helping the business measure their actual risk exposure over time. 

    Qualys VMDR offers an all-inclusive risk-based vulnerability management solution to prioritize vulnerabilities and assets based on risk and business criticality. VMDR seamlessly integrates with configuration management databases (CMDB), Qualys Patch Management, Custom Assessment and Remediation (CAR), Qualys TotalCloud and other Qualys and non-Qualys solutions to facilitate vulnerability detection and remediation across the entire enterprise.

    With VMDR, users are empowered with actionable risk insights that translate vulnerabilities and exploits into optimized remediation actions based on business impact. Qualys customers can now aggregate and orchestrate data from the Qualys Threat Library, 25+ threat intelligence feeds, and third-party security and IT solutions, empowering organizations to measure, communicate, and eliminate risk across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.

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    Agrokor Group, American Specialty Health, American State Bank, Arval, Life:), Axway, Bank of the West, Blueport Commerce, BSkyB, Brinks, CaixaBank, Cartagena, Catholic Health System, CEC Bank, Cegedim, CIGNA, Clickability, Colby-Sawyer College, Commercial Bank of Dubai, University of Utah, eBay Inc., ING Singapore, National Theatre, OTP Bank, Sodexo, WebEx
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company25%
    Construction Company14%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Media Company8%
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    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Insurance Company5%
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    Computer Software Company21%
    Retailer21%
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Recruiting/Hr Firm7%
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    Financial Services Firm25%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Government6%
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    Financial Services Firm19%
    Comms Service Provider15%
    Manufacturing Company15%
    Transportation Company11%
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    Educational Organization33%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise41%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise54%
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise41%
    Large Enterprise43%
    Buyer's Guide
    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs. Qualys VMDR
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs. Qualys VMDR and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is ranked 13th in Container Security with 32 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 11th in Container Security with 77 reviews. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is rated 8.2, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) writes "Decreases administrative burdens and costs, has good diagnostic tools, and is easy to deploy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is most compared with Red Hat OpenShift, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, SUSE Rancher and Tenable.io Container Security, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management. See our Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs. Qualys VMDR report.

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