We performed a comparison between Qualys VMDR and RiskIQ Illuminate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7 and others in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management."It's stable and quite reliable."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability detection and the scanning capability to enable identification of vulnerabilities across our network."
"I find the most valuable features are the continuous monitoring. Even on premises, there is constant monitoring."
"Detects new hosts along with vulnerabilities."
"There are many features. Its reliability, ease of installation, ease of use, and the richness of the information provided are the most valuable features."
"The features that are most valuable are the identification, scan features, and the identification of vulnerabilities."
"I find the solution's dashboard interesting...The response time is fine. You can pull up reports without dragging or consuming bandwidth."
"Performs automated, regular scans in the network."
"The solution is stable with 12 years of established historical data."
"The disadvantage of working with Qualys is that the graphical interface is quite outdated."
"Its integration with ServiceNow and other similar products is complicated and can be improved. It should also have virtual batching. They should support more standards and compliance requirements and more customizations. For policy compliance, they can add the standards required by the countries in the Middle East. Each country generates its own standards and frameworks, and those frameworks should be there in all products, not only in Qualys. The market here is huge, especially in the cybersecurity field. Qatar has a framework for Qatar 2022, and each and every company in the public or private sector has to follow the Qatar 2022 framework."
"The reporting and the GUI need improvements."
"It would be nice to have an all-in-one solution that was automated and could handle the scanning and reports as well as the patching and updating."
"The IoT scan is not great."
"We face issues while scanning multiple assets."
"The ability to manage user accounts and give rights to the operator to know about abnormalities of applications is something that needs improvement."
"It is more expensive vs. other products on the market."
"A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful."
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Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews while RiskIQ Illuminate is ranked 15th in Attack Surface Management (ASM). Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2, while RiskIQ Illuminate is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RiskIQ Illuminate writes "Able to discover unpatched servers, offers good stability, and scales very well". Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management, whereas RiskIQ Illuminate is most compared with Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management, Recorded Future and ZeroFOX.
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