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Cybersixgill vs VulnCheck comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.3
Qualys TotalCloud enhances efficiency and automation, achieving up to 40% cost savings and over 50% improved asset scanning.
Sentiment score
6.7
Cybersixgill enhanced ROI with real-time intelligence, reducing staffing needs, investigation time, and costs while improving security and reputation.
Sentiment score
7.0
VulnCheck boosts ROI by improving vulnerability prioritization, cutting remediation time, preventing breaches, and enhancing security team efficiency.
We are able to scan all our assets with less human intervention and achieve overall effective outcomes.
Dns architect at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has saved about 90% of our time.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
TotalCloud has generated overall savings of 30 to 40 percent across various departments.
Security Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The return of investment was quick and easily seen within the first 90 days, and that is when an actual quarterly meeting, a QBR, would take place to be able to show that return on investment.
VulnCheck detects exploitable vulnerabilities days to weeks earlier than alternatives, with customer detection averaging just under six and a half days sooner than most competing products.
Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
VulnCheck reduces the time spent manually researching exploitability and threat context for individual CVEs, allowing the team to focus on the vulnerabilities that need immediate attention.
Soc Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Since using VulnCheck, we see a significant return on investment as we no longer spend excessive time on scanning, which was an issue with Rapid7.
SOC L2 Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.7
Qualys TotalCloud's customer service is praised for responsiveness despite occasional delays, with ratings from seven to ten.
Sentiment score
6.3
Cybersixgill excels in prompt, attentive customer service with proactive communication, though some technical issues remain unresolved.
Sentiment score
7.2
VulnCheck's customer service is praised for responsiveness, helpfulness, knowledge, quick resolutions, clear communication, and effective documentation.
They are helpful, respond to my queries, and can answer any question.
Developer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Qualys's tech support is highly responsive, providing multiple ways to interact with them.
Service Manager, Security Operations at CDA IT SOLUTIONS
Qualys' customer service provides quality answers, but the response time is long, even though it is within the SLA.
Works at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The customer support is top-notch and excellent.
Cybersixgill's customer support replies within an hour or two or within the day.
Soc Analyst
Support for VulnCheck is very responsive, active, and helpful.
Manager at Cyvogenix
Overall, the customer support for VulnCheck has been good; the team has been responsive when we have had questions about the platform or needed help understanding specific intelligence.
Cybersecurity Executive at Gigabit Technologies Pvt Ltd
I find that customer support is good, and I'm impressed.
Senior Network & Security Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Qualys TotalCloud is highly scalable and adaptable, efficiently supporting varied environments and large-scale deployments with robust performance.
Sentiment score
7.3
Cybersixgill offers flexible scalability and seamless integration, enhancing data management efficiency for organizations of all sizes, especially smaller companies.
Sentiment score
7.5
VulnCheck ensures scalability and seamless integration, efficiently managing workloads and expanding needs across various organizational environments.
We started our organization about nine months back. We started with about 30 users, and we now have more than 100 users.
CIO at a venture capital & private equity firm with 11-50 employees
Our organization currently uses it to manage over 1200 web applications.
Analyst, Information Security at Infosys
It is absolutely scalable, and I would rate its scalability as nine out of ten.
retired at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
As small or as large as I want to be, Cybersixgill is able to accommodate any organization.
VulnCheck scales exceptionally in our organization, regardless of size.
SOC L2 Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
VulnCheck scales well because it is cloud-based and API-driven, so it can support growing volumes of vulnerability and threat intelligence data without requiring significant additional infrastructure.
Soc Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
VulnCheck has good scalability, as it has handled an increasing number of assets and vulnerabilities as our organization is growing.
Soc Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Qualys TotalCloud is stable and reliable, offering 99.9% uptime with quick support for minor issues and transparent maintenance updates.
Sentiment score
8.4
Cybersixgill is stable, reliable across time zones, easy to use, with minimal downtime, and praised for service stability.
Sentiment score
8.6
VulnCheck is highly reliable, providing consistent uptime and performance, with regular updates ensuring effective vulnerability assessments.
Overall, the support provided has been excellent.
Analyst, Information Security at Infosys
It has a lot of scanning mechanisms, which are agentless APIs, eBPF, and cloud agents, that are highly reliable.
Sr Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is a stable solution, which is why we chose it.
CIO at a venture capital & private equity firm with 11-50 employees
We haven't experienced any downtime or reliability issues.
Soc Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The platform has been consistent when accessing vulnerability and exploit intelligence.
Cybersecurity Executive at Gigabit Technologies Pvt Ltd
 

Room For Improvement

Qualys TotalCloud requires UI improvements, better cloud integration, enhanced support, and optimized reporting, onboarding, and vulnerability detection.
Users seek improvements in data management, real-time updates, UI, training, dark web sources, and reduced false positives on Cybersixgill.
Enhancing VulnCheck's UI, dashboards, integrations, and documentation can improve visibility, customization, and workflow efficiency for users.
Ideally, the scanner should automatically detect and scan all subdomains, even if not explicitly defined, ensuring comprehensive vulnerability assessment.
Analyst, Information Security at Infosys
Ideally, updates should be more immediate, enabling quicker implementation of solutions.
Project Lead at Persistent Systems
Our goal is to integrate all these functions into Qualys, creating a single dashboard for comprehensive security monitoring and management.
Senior Information Security Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
During the onboarding, that is the most crucial part to make sure that the organizations who purchase Cybersixgill ensure that they actually have the right person or persons to go through the onboarding.
I hope that in the future, Cybersixgill can separate the leaked credentials by email and domain.
Soc Analyst
You will require other tools to act on the data that you find, which necessitates engineering time for API integration, data mapping, and tuning.
Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
If VulnCheck works on the inventory of the software my organization uses, it would be really helpful.
Senior Network & Security Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
More customization in dashboards and reporting would be helpful for management-level insights.
Manager at Cyvogenix
 

Setup Cost

Qualys TotalCloud is costly but justified for large companies due to features, flexibility, and VMware integration efficiencies.
Cybersixgill offers competitive pricing, balancing affordability with market standards, though cost adjustments and currency exchange can affect value perception.
Enterprise users appreciate VulnCheck's fair pricing, transparency, and scalability, supporting enterprise needs without major expense fluctuations.
Qualys TotalCloud's pricing is currently acceptable, it is becoming increasingly expensive.
Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Pricing is managed by our finance team; however, Qualys TotalCloud offers cost-effective licensing flexibility.
IT Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Qualys TotalCloud is expensive, but it offers a premier solution with no headaches.
Vice President at Inspira Enterprise
Based on the needs of the customer, there was always a negotiation that could be done to get a slightly lower price.
Currently, I find the pricing of VulnCheck to be reasonable and not much expensive.
Senior Network & Security Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The pricing is reasonable for the value VulnCheck provides, especially for threat intelligence.
Manager at Cyvogenix
 

Valuable Features

Qualys TotalCloud offers efficient asset discovery, security posture management, and vulnerability management with excellent integration and threat intelligence features.
Cybersixgill offers user-friendly threat intelligence features, tracking, and analysis from deep and dark web, enhancing security monitoring.
VulnCheck boosts vulnerability management with real-time intelligence, risk prioritization, and integration, enhancing efficiency and security posture.
This view of risk helps reduce the work we would have to do to combine multiple sources to prioritize risk.
Works at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
It will help cybersecurity professionals monitor the cloud and find vulnerabilities.
Developer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
We are enjoying the new feature, FlexScan, which is valuable for Internet-facing VMs.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The best feature that Cybersixgill offers with respect to dark web intelligence is that they provide very good screenshots of where the particular data has been taken, which allows for better visualization and understanding of the scenario, with the source being indicated through onion links that can be reverse-engineered for further investigation.
Associate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
What specifically stands out to me about the cyber threat intelligence feature is the speed and the depth from the data lake.
I appreciate that I can search in the dashboard for credentials by entering the domain directly rather than navigating through other sections, making it very easy to check the dashboard.
Soc Analyst
The main feature of VulnCheck is its ability to cut down all the noise and provide a scoring of how you are going to get attacked and breached.
Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
VulnCheck helps us identify which vulnerabilities are being actively exploited or are listed as similar to known exploited vulnerabilities.
Manager at Cyvogenix
The detailed descriptions of all present vulnerabilities along with emerging threats, well-documented details, and frequent updates of threat intelligence contribute significantly to reducing the remediation workload by prioritizing the vulnerabilities that matter most.
SOC L2 Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Qualys TotalCloud
Sponsored
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
11th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
Container Security (11th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (8th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (8th), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (2nd), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (7th)
Cybersixgill
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
46th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) (9th), Digital Risk Protection (8th), Attack Surface Management (ASM) (20th)
VulnCheck
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
33rd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Qualys TotalCloud is 1.2%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cybersixgill is 0.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VulnCheck is 0.4%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qualys TotalCloud1.2%
VulnCheck0.4%
Cybersixgill0.6%
Other97.8%
Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2859021 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Risk-based triage has transformed container security and now prioritizes high-impact threats
The best features Qualys TotalCloud offers currently include managing cloud infrastructure and container security while facing major challenges such as alert fatigue. Traditional vulnerability scanners flag hundreds of CVEs on short-lived Kubernetes containers, some of which have no internet exposure or are gone before we can even triage them. I leverage Qualys TotalCloud to move beyond static CVSS. I use it to implement runtime exposure, correlation risk reprioritization, and shift-left integration. This notifies developers to fix a base image upstream rather than patching live ephemeral instances. In my work with cloud and container security, the biggest operational hurdle was alert fatigue. I use Qualys to shift left from static CVSS severity to context-aware risk prioritization. I correlated raw vulnerability data with real-time risk factors such as public network exposure, active runtime execution, or overly permissive IAM roles. This allows us to immediately drop the priority of isolated containers and escalate lower-severity CVEs that sit on an exposed, high-risk path. We can map these findings directly back to our CI/CD pipelines so developers can patch the root base images upstream. We have drastically cut down the signal-to-noise ratio, saved a lot of manual hours doing triage work, and ensured engineering effort goes directly towards high-impact risk reduction.
Proactive dark web intelligence has reduced breach impact and protects organizations quietly
Cybersixgill has one of the largest data lakes around. I think the way they can be improved is to be able to initially during the onboarding, make sure that the false positives are correctly addressed to really do the tweaks that need to be done to filter through exactly what the organization is trying to accomplish and give them the outcomes they are looking for without all the extra noise or chatter. I just think during the onboarding, that is the most crucial part to make sure that the organizations who purchase Cybersixgill ensure that they actually have the right person or persons to go through the onboarding to make sure that the data lake feeds can be properly set up and organized so it can filter through the noise and the chatter.
Vsadalaga Sadalga - PeerSpot reviewer
Soc Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Improved threat intelligence has enabled us to prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities efficiently
In my opinion, the best features VulnCheck offers are its vulnerability intelligence, exploitation tracking, and risk-based prioritization. I find the threat context especially useful because it helps us identify vulnerabilities that are more likely to be exploited and focus our remediation efforts accordingly. The exploitation tracking feature has helped my team because it helps us understand which vulnerabilities are being actively exploited or are more likely to be targeted. This gives us better context when prioritizing vulnerabilities and helps the team focus on urgent remediation instead of treating all vulnerabilities equally. Another useful feature is threat intelligence context around vulnerabilities. It helps us connect vulnerability information with real-world threats, which makes prioritization and communication with the vulnerability management team easier. Overall, it helps us focus on the vulnerabilities that present the most immediate risk. VulnCheck has impacted my organization positively by helping us improve how we prioritize vulnerabilities by giving us better threat and exploitation context. Instead of focusing only on severity scores, we can identify vulnerabilities that have a higher likelihood of being exploited. This helps us use our security resources more effectively and respond to higher risk vulnerabilities faster. VulnCheck has helped us improve vulnerability prioritization and reduce the time spent reviewing a large number of vulnerabilities. We are able to focus faster on vulnerabilities with active exploitation and higher threat relevance. I do not have a specific organization-wide metric to share, but the main improvements have been more efficient prioritization and better context of remediation decisions.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
16%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
33%
Construction Company
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise34
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Qualys TotalCloud?
In terms of improvement, remediation still belongs to the cloud team, which is one of the issues we faced with Qualys...
What is your primary use case for Qualys TotalCloud?
My main use case for Qualys TotalCloud is regarding the cloud visibility that we were not having previously. Previous...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cybersixgill Investigative Portal?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the pricing was very well priced. It was not the cheape...
What needs improvement with Cybersixgill Investigative Portal?
Cybersixgill has one of the largest data lakes around. I think the way they can be improved is to be able to initiall...
What is your primary use case for Cybersixgill Investigative Portal?
My main use case for Cybersixgill is dealing with cyber threat intelligence. When an organization's information was b...
What needs improvement with VulnCheck?
VulnCheck is a really good tool, but it could be improved with a more user-friendly dashboard and also with more deta...
What is your primary use case for VulnCheck?
My primary day-to-day use case for VulnCheck is for vulnerability management, where I mainly use it to review finding...
What advice do you have for others considering VulnCheck?
My advice would be to start with a clear vulnerability management goal and integrate VulnCheck with your existing sec...
 

Also Known As

Qualys TotalCloud with FlexScan
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Sample Customers

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Current customers include large enterprises, financial services, manufacturing, GSIs, MSSPs, government and law enforcement entities.
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