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Overview

Qualys Cloud Platform

4.0

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Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Qualys Cloud Platform

Qualys Cloud is a network security management software designed to help businesses monitor IT assets and prioritize threats in real-time. Administrators can receive alerts regarding vulnerabilities, suspicious activities and attacks and address potential threats.

The platform allows managers to track expired licenses, application versions and out-of-date operating systems to maintain asset inventory. Qualys Cloud enables teams to evaluate files in accordance with payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS) and health insurance portability and accountability act (HIPAA) compliance protocols. Additionally, operators can access endpoints to quarantine files, fix misconfigurations and remove exploits on a unified interface.

Qualys Cloud offers an application programming interface (API), which lets businesses integrate the system with several third-party applications including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via knowledge base, phone, chat, email, FAQs and forum.

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Qualys Cloud Platform Pricing and Plans

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Qualys Cloud Platform Features

Popular features found in Compliance
Access Controls/Permissions
Archiving & Retention
Audit Trail
Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)
Document Management
Incident Management
Monitoring
Regulatory Reporting
Risk Management
Training Management
Version Control
More features of Qualys Cloud Platform
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Audit Management
Compliance Management
Configuration Management
Container Scanning
Continuous Integration
Dashboard
Data Security
Data Storage Management
Encryption
Endpoint Management
Endpoint Protection
Financial Data Protection
IT Asset Tracking
Network Security
Patch Management
Policy Management
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Notifications
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Runtime Container Security
Search/Filter
Security Auditing
Security Management
SSL Security
Third-Party Integrations
Threat Response
User Management
Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability Protection
Vulnerability Scanning

Qualys Cloud Platform Integrations

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud

Qualys Cloud Platform User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.0

Ratings Breakdown

41%

38%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

3.9

Customer support

4.0

Functionality

4.2

Manoj P.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Comprehensive Solution for CloudSec Needs

Overall, Qualys Cloud Security is a comprehensive and powerful security tool

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Comprehensive security coverage, scalability, and ease of use

Cons:

Cost can be subjective depending upon the org size. Also configurations are to be done very accurately for getting desired results.

Verified

Reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

Nice tool for Vulnerability Management.

Overall We are happy, Web interface is very interactive and training are awesome.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to implement, enabling sensors are not much techie.

Cons:

Sometime handling false positive detection are really a tough task.

Graham N.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Incompetent badly supported rubbish.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Nothing - I hate it.

Cons:

Their ridiculous false positives - apparently it's a critical incompliance that certain options aren't set in the gdm config file /etc/gdm.conf. Fair enough - if gdm was installed. A simple check that the file exists first would eliminate this and (of our 80+ compliance errors) most others. Complaining about mount options on non-existent filesystems, or that /etc/gshadow didn't match a regex - or did, I'm not sure from the report. The file has mode 0000 (so no permissions set at all). The fix was to chown root:root /etc/gshadow* Trust these amateurs at your own risk. If they are as incompetent as this, what are they missing?

Tejas G.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2018

Great cloud based vulnerability scanning tool.

Great vulnerability scanner to provide accurate vulnerability findings.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Qualysguard performs scan based on IP addresses rather than URL’s. It easily accessible from anywhere as its as cloud based scanner. Qualysguard supports scheduling of the scan for target system based on particular time and date and it also acknowledges and share the mail once the scan is completed. It can also perform the scan and give vulnerabilities as per compliance standards such as PCI DSS.

Cons:

Qualysguard doesn’t support scan for URL’s as we only need to provide IP address of the URL to perform the scan. This tool might be costly for small scale organizations.

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Reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2020

Vulnerability scanning

Overall it has been very positive and we will continue to use it. It has helped us greatly lock down our environment.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Qualys gives high-quality reports in an easy to read format. The agent has been easy to install and has not caused any issues.

Cons:

We have had some instances where scan attempts ended up causing confusion or application outages when they were not designed to handle the scans.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Best paid tool for doing Vulnerability Scans

Costly tool but it is worth the money

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It can scan the systems based on various unique standards like PCI DSS which other scanners by competitors doesn't have . We can define various scanning profiles for doing vulnerability scans . It supports scan based on IP rather than URL. As it is a cloud based scanner it can be accessed from anywhere. I like the feature that it has option to schedule scans in future.

Cons:

It can't perform credentialed based scans for external or public facing IP’s Does Not support URL based vulnerability scans for application.

Timothy G.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2020

A great VM Solution

Once you have the software set up, it is wonderful to use. There are improvements that can be made but this is a great solution for the money. Happy with the product so far.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The solution is very detailed in what information it collects. The Cloud agent runs as a service on the endpoints and references back to the cloud periodically (the interval is customizable). The GUI is very nice and they are updating things constantly. It is easy to see our Security stance from the different modules.

Cons:

There is no MSI file to deploy the software via GPO! Also, for me, the assetview module shows a different number of assets than the VMDR asset tab. Why there is a difference, I don't know.

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Reviewer

Public Policy

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

Useful Vulnerabilty Management option

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Detailed explanations and possible resolutions for vulnerabilities that are detected by the Cloud Agents.

Cons:

I have used other solutions as well on the same machines and they seem to detect quite a few different vulnerabilities, it seems neither give a rather complete list, so it's a good idea to use multiple solutions from different vendors with a different focus to get a clear insight in the ones that are classified as higher risks.

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Reviewer

Outsourcing/ Offshoring

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Vulnerability Management

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Works well and is a trusted source. Their scanning engine gives you some level organization independence (not entirely).

Cons:

It is expensive, and you have to open up your organization to their IP's or put an in-house relay server.

Ramona E.

Verified reviewer

Industrial Automation

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

Confusing vulnerability scanner/manager

We use this to regularly check our most important servers and determine their cybersecurity maturity.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Once you get the hang of the interface, it generates results with more depth than most vulnerability assesment tools. Support is quick to respond to any queries, even during a trial period.

Cons:

The interface and the amount of options is confusing, to put it mildly. There are many different steps to take and many different, seemingly similar, scan options to choose from. It takes a significant amount of time to set up.

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