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Cisco ACI vs Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco ACI
Ranking in Cloud and Data Center Security
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
103
Ranking in other categories
Network Virtualization (1st), Software Defined Networking (SDN) (2nd)
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk P...
Ranking in Cloud and Data Center Security
10th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (20th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud and Data Center Security category, the mindshare of Cisco ACI is 4.2%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is 0.7%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud and Data Center Security Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Cisco ACI4.2%
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform0.7%
Other95.1%
Cloud and Data Center Security
 

Featured Reviews

Rahul Khandelwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Technical Manager at KPMG
Enables streamlined data center management with automation and application-centric design
The main features of Cisco ACI that I really appreciate are the application-centric and network-centric designs, allowing you to create your network according to your application. That's helpful, and it's good for one-time implementation. The automation capabilities are really helpful. We deployed one data center using Terraform, and after deployment, many automation features are available, which can be very helpful. Based on my experience, Cisco ACI provides substantial capability; you can design your network accordingly and it's part of the SDN family, providing many benefits to the organization, especially when moving from traditional network infrastructure. Many organizations are actually using the old traditional Nexus infrastructure or some old data center devices. It gives you significant control and one-time implementation capabilities, and it also provides better performance and security. Functionality-wise, Cisco ACI provides integration using automation. We implemented it through Terraform, which was easy. Those features are available, so I don't think any new features are needed right now; something new could come up, but they have implemented many improvements over the years.
MH
Mediation Specialist III at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Has enabled efficient internal network scanning and provides detailed vulnerability insights
One thing which I really want Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform to improve is the UI. While it might not be the case for everyone and it's subjective, in my team, most people agree on that part. The UI should be more user-friendly. If you have uploaded a file containing many IP addresses, you don't have a straightforward option to check what the IP addresses were. If we want to search an IP address from the list, we need to check it one by one. Also, when we download something, the feature should be upfront. When we get the result of the scan, it should be 'download this file'. In many scanners, when you go to the download option, you get the options for particular formats immediately. However, in this case, when you click on download, it loads another page before giving you the output options for PDF or CSV. This feature should be upfront.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features are the automation with the different systems for the software development and the ability to provision switches in hours rather than days."
"It has reduced our day-to-day operations by at least half."
"Having a lot of racks and switches with a single point of configuration which can be done with automation on one platform using one API. This makes everything work faster."
"It has made it much easier to deploy and make changes in the data center versus the previous infrastructure, which was NX-OS based."
"Their technical support has been great, and they have a great partner, so there is nothing to comment on regarding the service."
"It has benefited my organization by saving us a lot of time."
"In a very general way, the ease of access, ease of use, and ease of connecting the system is a valuable feature in itself. The solution doesn't really increase detection rates as that is not what it was created for. Threat prevention comes in from other devices that might be connected into the Cisco ACI that monitors external traffic. It maintains what end-of-life products would be doing and offers other opportunities to unify solutions."
"Cisco's technical support team is very good."
"Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform was helpful with threat prioritization features for resource allocation, and it played a good role in our analysis and day-to-day monitoring."
"Qualys offers versatility. It can function both with and without agents, offering flexibility in deployment. Furthermore, it provides comprehensive support for various systems such as Windows Server, Unix servers, and databases, including SQL, Oracle, and others for development."
"Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is considered a good leader in its field."
"The favorite feature of Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is that it provides the whole information of a particular vulnerability, including a comprehensive summary, related CVEs and CVSS score, which helps understand potential risks and allows the output to be exported in various formats like CSV, PDF, or JSON."
"The favorite feature of Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is that it provides the whole information of a particular vulnerability, including a comprehensive summary, related CVEs and CVSS score, which helps understand potential risks and allows the output to be exported in various formats like CSV, PDF, or JSON."
 

Cons

"I would like to be able to test the upgrades in a simulation before implementing them in production because not everyone has a lab."
"From my point of view, troubleshooting issues relating to ACI can be a little bit complicated to perform."
"I wish that if I had to open up an additional tab, I wouldn't have to log in every single time."
"Cisco needs to enhance their technical support and pay more attention to regional support."
"The additional features I would like to see included in the next releases are support for our policy-based routing. There are endpoint issues that are there now in the code. Hopefully, these will get fixed in the future code."
"Cisco should provide more examples of code in their website. Something that other people can use. There is a great place in the development area."
"They should make it easier for the network people to do automated solutions."
"I believe there's room for improvement in terms of ACI's integration with various technologies."
"Once we supplied 130 URLs to it for scanning one by one, and it crashed in between. We did not have any clue what happened, so we had to reach out to support."
"The report sometimes inaccurately identifies the corresponding operating system version."
"Once we supplied 130 URLs to it for scanning one by one, and it crashed in between. We did not have any clue what happened, so we had to reach out to support."
"Compared to Microsoft, there were already advanced tools, so I had seen some drawbacks compared to licensing or technical side."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is not cheap."
"Pricing for Cisco ACI could be expensive if you're not a gold partner. If you're a gold partner, you'll get reasonable pricing, but to become a gold partner, you must cross several layers. For example, at least twenty engineers within your organization have to be certified, with each certification priced at £2,000 minimum, so this would make some companies think twice about the product. If you're going for Aruba and Juniper products, on the other hand, you can quickly get the partner status, and you can start selling the product. As a gold partner, you can get up to seventy percent discount on Cisco ACI, for example, while an ordinary partner gets ten percent off. Cisco ACI is expensive for both customers and partners, but I'm rating pricing for the product as four out of five because even if the price is costly, you get a lot of benefits from the product. Cisco ACI isn't the best, price-wise, but it's still a good solution. If you're in a small organization, you may be unable to afford it. Cisco ACI is best for enterprises but not SMBs because Cisco ACI and its required resources are expensive."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
"Once you sign for the start kit implementation, you have to go all the way through to the implementation, even if you are experiences issues."
"It saves time and resources."
"The good thing about Cisco is that you can trade in your old products to replace them with ACI."
"We used Cisco Professional Services for the deployment. They were outstanding, but very expensive."
"This is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise19
Large Enterprise87
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Questions from the Community

What are the biggest differences between Cisco ACI and VMware NSX?
There are some very major differences between both the Products and to name a few. -Cisco ACI have physical network gear (9K Switches) where the Code runs in ACI Policy Mode & the UCS server wh...
What are the biggest differences between Cisco ACI and VMware NSX?
Once you know your way around the Cisco ecosystem, using Cisco ACI is not so difficult. It is a global product, so when you change one interface, changes are automatically reflected on every switch...
What do you like most about Cisco ACI?
The flexibility of adding new components with minimal impact on existing services running in the data center is a key benefit of this ACI-based solution.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform?
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform was not expensive regarding the pricing point. We made a purchase choice that was within our budget. The pricing was up to the mark at that time regarding pricing...
What needs improvement with Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform?
I have not been working with real-time threat intelligence updates. Back then, AI integration was not there with the product, but I am uncertain about how the tool has upgraded itself now. If it is...
What is your primary use case for Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform?
My main reasons to use Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform were vulnerability severity assessment for assets like server endpoints and cloud resources. We utilized it for asset scores, vulnerability...
 

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