Qualys VMDR Benefits

Harold Jensen - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at 3M Health Information Systems

We are seeing more of the issues we suspected were there. Qualys is allowing us to get an overall picture of our Risk posture. It has enabled us to identify assets we did not know existed.  

However, Qualys has not enabled us to get a complete picture of our risk posture, due to our own limitations in our deployments and limitations in the Qualys back end, dashboards, UI, connector reliability, and the limitations of the Qualys Scripting Language (QSL).  

Qualys implementation requires dedicated back-end support from various teams which was not clearly explained to us or planned for. 

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MK
Information Security Engineer at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

It has improved our organization in many ways. We needed to have a security solution that focuses on different types of things. We discussed budgeting for the cloud and the need for an alternative to taking care of malware. Additionally, we have to consider various attacks. Therefore, Qualys VMDR is a great tool that helps us improve.

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Ruan Kotze - PeerSpot reviewer
Head: Cloud Platform Security at BCX Namibia

The benefits I've seen are twofold. The biggest benefit is from a security operations perspective, where we are able to drive our security posture upwards by remediating any discovered vulnerabilities. We can also automate the remediation process. The other big benefit is executive reporting because it's very easy to produce trends over time to report on risk.

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Qualys VMDR
March 2024
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MN
Security Expert at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We have an excellent relationship with the vendor, so we use the solution in our company and in two other companies. We have a communication program. Japanese people can't speak English, but most of the tools have only English support, Qualys VM offers support in other languages which are essential for our company.

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JO
Manager, Info Security Planning & Architecture at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Qualys VM has greatly helped us to improve and maintain our posture of security.

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PranjalGargava - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Engineer at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The product has helped us understand cybersecurity controls. 

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NS
Lead Cyber Security engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Good Posture of Servers database. Gives easy access of all hardware details. 

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Jan Vobruba - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Security Consultant at ANECT

The functionality continues to improve and knowing when there are security issues is very helpful. 

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RR
Senior Vulnerability Analyst at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

If any anomalies are there, we can easily detect with our agent based solutions, and we can isolate them quickly, and response time or any incident is much quicker than previous. Before we were taking eight hours, now we're taking around 30 minutes to respond to any incident, security and such.

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Tim Cranny - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal at Cranny Group

Qualys VM has improved the way the organization functions.

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Gabriel Clement - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead IT Security and Remediation at ARM Ltd

This solution gives us insight into our environment and improves our security. It helps us to maintain a good patching system whereby we know that XYZ is vulnerable within the system. 

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it_user259977 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analista de Seguridad TI at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In this case, my last employer was a Qualys partner and the consultancy was extra. But, the reports and the way the information is, helped a lot. Also, with this information concise presentations were sent to the CIO every month.

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BM
Sr. Manager, Vulnerability Management at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

It's been the chosen solution year after year for vulnerability management and our vulnerability management program is centered around this tool.

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it_user1017003 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services
  • Asset discovery
  • Asset sanitization
  • Scan scheduling
  • Patch supersedence.
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it_user1004325 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at Tata Consultancy Services

The customer was manually testing asset health by point-in-time audits. Using the policy compliance module allowed this to be automated and saved time as well as generated more complete coverage of assets leading to greater assurance.

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it_user259962 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager System Security at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

As a leading IT services organization, it is very important for us to have a proactive identification/assessment of vulnerabilities. We also need to be able to remedy them in a timely manner before they exploit our security configuration compliance, and then harden our security for both system/network devices and applications. We need to do this both before and after placing them in production environment.

With QualsyGuard we have been able to achieve this by utilizing its modules, such as vulnerability management, policy compliance, web scanning, malware detection, and asset tagging.

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it_user147540 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Compliance Analyst at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
Higher frequency of scans, better aggregation of scan results, abundance of different reports (can be scheduled and automated), delivering metrics to senior management. View full review »
FG
President and CEO at a non-profit with 11-50 employees

Qualys VM has allowed us to know the vulnerabilities we need to prioritize based on the threat levels and the possible impact if there's an intrusion. It also provides a view of inventories and vulnerabilities in the containers running on my infrastructure, which helps me to do better roadmapping on where I need to put my resources.

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SS
Information Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Before using Qualys, we had other security tools. And, the main purpose was to remove the granularity. We had so many attacks every day. Qualys really helped us manage the security for our operations.

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PK
Technology Security Expert at T-Mobile Polska (Deutsche Telekom)

This solution has provided information about existing vulnerabilities, and helped with quick remediation in case of global malware attacks.

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it_user254973 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Information Security at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It has helped to automate the vulnerability management program, increasing the security posture and helped us to identify the security risks in our infrastructure.

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it_user254613 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant at Cyber Intelligence Sdn Bhd

It now takes less time to run a vulnerability assessment for our client. I do not have to bring two laptops anymore to my clients sites.

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it_user121395 - PeerSpot reviewer
ITSM & AntiFraud Consultant with 51-200 employees

After the first scan of the servers at all the POCs QualysGuard discovered many vulnerabilities that are grouped from low to high impact. The ability to use asset management to scan the grouped servers from the vulnerability management feature with the policy compliance engine helps the security officer to perform the daily/monthly tasks faster and make them more organized.

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it_user254967 - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux Administrator at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Vulnerability scans are easily managed and maintained using Qualys. What used to be a manual process is now automatic. When we have an issue, I can easily see what production systems are affected and I can easily pinpoint a solution to mitigate the issue.

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it_user366201 - PeerSpot reviewer
Shared Information Security Officer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

It provides fully automated internal and external vulnerability management.

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it_user254970 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Services Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Since this is a SaaS based solution, the vulnerability scan with the external scanners as well as the reporting has improved a lot. The reporting is very granular and you can please higher management with your reports.

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it_user875820 - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Information Security Analyst at Visma
  • Tracks workstations and servers.
  • Monitors workstations and servers for vulnerabilities and creates reports.
  • Performs automated, regular scans in the network.
  • Detects new hosts along with vulnerabilities.
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it_user297117 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Risk Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

QualysGuard has provided us with a valuable insight into vulnerabilities across our environment. Before the use of this product, we had no way of identifying or tracking vulnerabilities.

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it_user268167 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's easy to reach the current location and download/install the correct patch.

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it_user255882 - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer Technical Leader for Galeries Lafayette at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

It has reduced the cost of ownership for the engineers who can launch scans on the customers’ networks.

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it_user251121 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Security Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We can now perform vulnerability scans with WAF integration. The WAF has improved the vulnerability identification and reports to the SOC and CSO.

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KR
Senior Information Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

There are fewer false positives when using this solution. We are also cutting the need for news monitoring with this solution.

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it_user298425 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Lotus Notes Administrator at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Users do not feel any QualysGuard presence.

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PL
IT Consultant Supervisor at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Qualys help identifies the weakness in our critical infrastructure and provides guidelines how to address them.

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it_user247242 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant with 501-1,000 employees

Most of my clients uses it for the vulnerability scanning of their internal & external network devices. Using the vulnerability management module you can track the list of vulnerabilities and can take action to remediate them. You can also see the list of vulnerability by severities and various other stuff.

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it_user347139 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Analyst- Security Testing with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use QualysGuard to identify all network and compliance-related violations of the assets. The report generated by the product will have a detailed description and solution. This has helped us to provide a certificate of compliance or a clean sheet for our vendors.

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Buyer's Guide
Qualys VMDR
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Qualys VMDR. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.