Qualys VMDR Previous Solutions
We used Tenable.IO which we found very limited. However, in our other cloud environment, we had to use Teanble.SC with which we were able to use a Lambda function and a few API calls to make it operate very well in the cloud.
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reviewer1324734
Information Security Manager at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
We previously used Nessus Professional. We switched when we could no longer go use our paid scanner on a client environment due to COVID and not actually going to client offices and nobody being there. Therefore, at that time, it wouldn't have been an effective vulnerability scan, and we had to look at other options. While one of our larger clients does have Nessus iOS through the city government, and it's a great tool, the pricing model was just cost prohibitive for our users across so many clients, and so that's why we were looking at other tools.
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reviewer2019471
Security Expert at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
We previously used an AWS scanner but switched to Qualys VM because of the Japanese support and the cost.
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If we compare Qualys VM to other vulnerability management solutions like Tenable, Qualys is only for agents. Their on-prem capabilities are pretty limited so it is very easy to manage assets that are cloud connected, but if they are not cloud connected, it is challenging. Tenable is better at managing non-cloud connected agents.
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AvaisZaidi
Assistant Manager Solutions at Mutex Systems Pvt. Ltd.
I used Symantec before but switched to Qualys VM as there's no limitation to adding endpoints. The other reason everyone moved to Qualys VM was its robustness and flexibility. I think that's something that's there, and there was no hassle in deploying the agent. All I had to do was get these machines that were enrolled in our MDM solutions.
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reviewer1708782
Senior Security Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
As a consultant, I've worked on a variety of projects in a variety of organizations.
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Anusha Patnaik
IRM Technical Consultant at Shell
Previously, I have used Rapid 7 Nexpose. They are similar solutions although what Qualys is providing, it provides well but requires less. Qualys reporting is better.
Nexpose has upgraded too, and now their reporting is also very good.
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RaghunandanRaju
Senior Vulnerability Analyst at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
I also have previous experience with Tennable Nessus, and I find Qualys is better than Nessus, which is slow in the security center and lags a bit.
View full review »We were previously using Lansweeper, which was not scalable.
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reviewer2004561
Security Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are currently doing a proof of concept with both Qualys VM and Rapid 7 InsightVM.
View full review »I have previously used Nessus. Overall, Nessus is a better tool because it provides greater insight into all vulnerabilities, some of which are skipped by Qualys.
I did not personally, but the technical contacts that worked for my customers tried another solutions, and they chose Qualys for the easy way it manages the processes.
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reviewer1460919
Global Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We did not work with another similar solution prior to Qualys.
View full review »I have not used another similar solution prior to Qualys Container Security.
View full review »No previous solution was used.
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Sujit Sharma
Information Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have previous experience with Tenable Nessus. I like Qualys better because there are so many nice features, it builds better.
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reviewer1405830
Technical Architect at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Previously we used Nessus, but only Qualys does intrusive scanning.
View full review »No previous solution was used.
View full review »Rapid 7 Nexpose. To use the software, it takes a whole laptop just to run it, and the results have too much redundancy. Additionally, the scan rate is very slow compared to Qualys, and furthermore it is too expensive when compared to Qualys.
View full review »I have used both Nessus and Rapid 7 Nexpose. I am working as a security consultant and I need to know the big players so I could present to my clients the pluses and minuses of the products they might choose.
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reviewer1674711
Senior Cyber Security Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have also used Rapid7, which is very similar to Qualys VM.
Scaling is more difficult with Rapid7. When it comes to scaling, Rapid7 is not my first choice.
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reviewer1500162
Chief Information Officer/Senior Vice President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I used to work with QualysGuard VM — an older version. The earlier version didn't have the detection response that we needed, that's why this time it has the detection response. VMDR is the evolution of the solution.
View full review »We used Nessus before. It was a manual process and very time consuming. I like Nessus, but it was very tedious to get it to function automatically.
We previously used Rapid 7. The product was not staying current with shifting trends, sales staff were pushy and management were arrogant.
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Omar ORta
Director Transformación Digital at oesia
We are also working with Tenable SC. Qualys is both more complete and for us, better in terms of pricing.
View full review »We used McAfee Vulnerability Manager/Foundstone and had to switch because this is a SaaS based solution and has more features/capabilities.
View full review »We didn't use a previous solution.
View full review »No previous solution was used.
View full review »I switched due to the cost.
View full review »There was no previous solution, but I did execute several POCs.
View full review »No previous solution was used.
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reviewer1307133
IT Consultant Supervisor at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
None
View full review »I didn't use a previous solution, but the vulnerability management helped me to find out about it.
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reviewer1189266
Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I've previously worked with Tenable IO and Rapid 7. We switched because of Qualys's web application feature.
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