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Fidelis Halo vs Qualys TotalCloud comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Fidelis Halo
Ranking in Container Security
57th
Ranking in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
47th
Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
49th
Ranking in Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
35th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
Cloud and Data Center Security (33rd), DevSecOps (21st)
Qualys TotalCloud
Ranking in Container Security
11th
Ranking in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
8th
Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
8th
Ranking in Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (10th), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) category, the mindshare of Fidelis Halo is 0.5%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qualys TotalCloud is 2.3%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qualys TotalCloud2.3%
Fidelis Halo0.5%
Other97.2%
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
 

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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.
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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider
16%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
 

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Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise34
 

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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 TotalCloud. Qualys TotalCloud can identify the problem, but changing an AWS sec...
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. Previously, we were just looking at critical vulnerabilities and patching them. Now with...
 

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1. Aetna 2. Accenture 3. Adobe 4. ADP 5. AIG 6. Airbus 7. Allstate 8. Amazon 9. American Express 10. American International Group 11. Aon 12. Apple 13. ATT 14. Autodesk 15. Bank of America 16. Barclays 17. BCG 18. Black Rock 19.Boeing 20. BNP Paribas 21. Citigroup 22. CocaCola 23. Comcast 24. Credit Suisse 25. Deloitte 26. ETrade 27. Equinix 28. ExxonMobil 29. FedEx 30. Fiat Chrysler 31. Ford 32. GE
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