Fortra's Alert Logic MDR vs Vicarius vRx comparison

Fortra and Vicarius are both solutions in the Vulnerability Management category. Fortra is ranked #28 with an average rating of 10.0, while Vicarius is ranked #16 with an average rating of 7.9. Fortra holds a 0.6% mindshare in VM, compared to Vicarius’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Fortra users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Vicarius users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Fortra's Alert Logic MDR and Vicarius vRx compete in cybersecurity solutions. Alert Logic MDR has the upper hand due to its extensive threat detection capabilities.

Features: Fortra's Alert Logic MDR provides real-time threat detection, incident response capabilities, and robust security analytics. Vicarius vRx focuses on vulnerability management, pre-emptive threat mitigation, and offers cloud-based protection. The primary distinction lies in Alert Logic’s emphasis on detection versus Vicarius’s focus on prevention.

Room for Improvement: Alert Logic MDR could enhance its user interface, improve integration with third-party systems, and expand its machine learning algorithms. Vicarius vRx needs to streamline deployment, increase scalability options, and lower its initial subscription costs to attract cost-sensitive customers.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Alert Logic MDR offers a straightforward deployment with strong support, ensuring quick setup. Vicarius vRx, although requiring more time for integration due to its cloud-based model, provides exceptional personalized customer service, ensuring a tailored support experience.

Pricing and ROI: Alert Logic MDR is cost-effective with a competitive price offering solid ROI through comprehensive threat protection. Vicarius vRx demands a higher initial investment but promises significant ROI due to its specialized vulnerability management, appealing to those prioritizing long-term security investments.

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Fortra's Alert Logic MDR vs. Vicarius vRx

September 2025

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Zafran Security

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Zafran Security is 1.0%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortra's Alert Logic MDR is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vicarius vRx is 0.9%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Vulnerability Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Vicarius vRx	0.9%
Zafran Security	1.0%
Fortra's Alert Logic MDR	0.6%
Other	97.5%

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Featured Reviews

Israel Cavazos Landini

Associate Director IT Security Operations at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Weekly insights and risk analysis facilitate informed security decisions

I appreciate the weekly insights Zafran provides, which include critical topics for networks and IT security, allowing us to evaluate which insights apply to our environment. The organization score feature is valuable to keep the leadership team updated on how our infrastructure fares security-wise. The applicable risk level versus base risk level feature is beneficial because prior to Zafran, we only used the base risk level, but now understand that risk depends on the asset itself. Zafran is an excellent tool.

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reviewer2191746

President at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's a highly mature, competitively priced solution that provides total visibility into your ecosystem. FORTRA's Alert Logic has the only Cybersecurity Platform that integrates XDR+WAF+VM+DLP in one.

Alert Logic offers total visibility into the client's IT ecosystem. The solution's intrusion detection system inspects 100 percent of the network packets and installs universal agents on all physical and virtual servers for log collection. Alert Logic also aggregates logs of the client's various 3rd Party security tools into a single pane of glass. All of the analytics from those data feeds got to a 24/7 SOC with sophisticated resources. Alert Logic has massive threat intelligence resources to provide additional context to the incident response declarations. They do all the heavy lifting for clients who lack the technology and resources to operate their own SOC. The client is solely responsible for the incident response component. The macro analytics resides on Alert Logic's cloud. You have the ECM response and business application team on the client side. Everything works in tandem, which is the only way you can deal with the advanced threats we face today, especially the ransomware families. If you don't respond in minutes, you're in trouble.

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OrenBen Shalom

Information Security Manager at Pango

Consolidates vulnerability discovery, prioritization, and remediation in a single platform

Vicarius vRx offers several advantages, especially for organizations with diverse operating systems and applications requiring frequent patching. The platform helps prioritize patch installation by identifying high-risk vulnerabilities, allowing IT teams to focus on critical threats first. This prioritization is crucial because it prevents IT teams from being overwhelmed by the constant influx of patches, enabling them to create a manageable plan and allocate resources effectively. By distinguishing between critical, high-risk, and medium-risk vulnerabilities, Vicarius vRx empowers IT teams to address the most urgent threats promptly and schedule less critical patches for later. Both native operating system updates and Vicarius vRx offer vulnerability remediation. Native OS updates allow for the patching of system vulnerabilities on Windows, macOS, and Linux. However, Vicarius vRx provides a single solution for installing both operating system and application updates by also discovering application vulnerabilities. Another valuable feature is virtual patching, which allows us to protect an asset from a specific vulnerability without installing a patch. Sometimes, installing a patch alone is insufficient and requires restarting the asset. However, production servers often cannot be restarted during the day, restricting restarts to specific timeslots. Virtual patching creates a network-based protection layer that prevents exploitation of a vulnerability, offering a temporary safeguard. While not a foolproof solution for long-term use, it's a valuable tool that reduces tension between IT and security teams by providing time to properly install patches.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Overall, we have seen about eighty-seven percent reduction of the number of vulnerabilities that require urgency to remediate, specifically the number of criticals."

"We saw benefits from Zafran Security almost immediately after deploying it."

"Zafran is an excellent tool."

"Zafran has become an indispensable tool in our cybersecurity arsenal."

"We are able to see the real risk of a vulnerability on our environment with our security tools."

"While I still have on-premises appliances, I can remotely monitor everything from the cloud, and Alert Logic's ease-of-access features have helped me streamline my workflow and reduce implementation time."

"Notifications and the detail of notifications are most valuable. It is a user-friendly solution."

"The solution was consistently available, and I cannot recall any instances where it was down."

"It improves our security. Before, we didn't have anything scanning our containers. We had software scanning all the physical servers, but we had nothing to scan our containers. With Alert Logic, we can do that."

"Everything is in one dashboard; I'm notified when there's an incident and advised on what steps to take."

"It is a very stable product."

"It has the ability to install agents. It is pretty straightforward. You can automate the process pretty easily."

"We receive infrastructure security warnings from it. So, we know what is going on and what needs to be addressed."

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"The ability to consolidate vulnerability discovery, prioritization, and remediation in one platform is crucial."

"The other products we looked at had patching tagged on another product, whereas this solely looked after the patching and vulnerabilities, which is good. We did not see any other products with such capability."

"Third-party software patching is the most valuable feature."

"While other vulnerability scanners overwhelm us with a huge list of problems after a scan, Vicarius vRx goes beyond that."

"Vicarius vRx offers several advantages, especially for organizations with diverse operating systems and applications requiring frequent patching."

"I also like how easy it is to use. We instructed some companies on how to use it, provided them with an account, and gave them the ability to deploy and patch. They could quickly figure it out. We can spend an hour in the office showing someone how everything works, and they're good to go. It's the same with our customers."

"Vicarius vRx has reduced 70% of the time we spend on patching."

"The system prioritizes vulnerabilities, identifying high, medium, and low risks, allowing us to focus on high-risk applications. It allows us to focus on high-risk applications and do the updates."

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Cons

"I think the ability to have some enhanced reporting capabilities is something they can improve on, as they have good reports but we have asked for some specific reporting enhancements."

"Initially, we were somewhat concerned about the scalability of Zafran due to our large asset count and the substantial amount of information we needed to process."

"The dashboarding and reporting functionality of Zafran Security is an area that definitely could use some improvements."

"The documentation, especially with the initial setup, needs improvement."

"Could be more of an endpoint protector."

"As a user involved with the user interface, I believe there is a need to continue improving it based on feedback from our customers."

"We'd like to have triggered alerts sent to us so we see errors quicker."

"I would like to see it do initial scans and start capturing data, which it will truly analyze, not just be a reporting system saying, "Here is an email. Here is an email. Here is an email.""

"The product needs to mature. We don't want to be bombarded with unnecessary issues and have the real ones slip through."

"I would like more data on the alert payload. It would be good to have the ability to customize the alert payload to add whatever data that we want on there. Right now, it is a bit limited."

"Its menu is not very intuitive. I would like to see the user menu expanded a bit. The user menu is very layered, and because of the layers, you have to go down a path that is not very intuitive."

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"There can be more scripting capability and more filtering capability. We should be able to filter more granular details in the operating system such as whether it is a service, application, executable, or something like that. For the most part, we are satisfied with what we are able to filter."

"Areas that need improvement include the CPU usage and the delay between sending updates and receiving feedback on their status."

"Vicarius vRx's application management capabilities could be improved by allowing users to manage and uninstall applications directly within the GUI, eliminating the need for scripting and streamlining the process."

"We are now in the process of trying to get our money back because the tool does not work."

"Another complaint we've gotten is that the portal doesn't remember your username and password. You tell them your email, and it sends an invitation. You need to click that, and it takes you to a new portal, where you can finally log in. Maybe it's a security precaution, but it seems like a lot of extra steps to log in."

"I don't like logging in. The portal could be a better process. You could use some third-party push notification rather than sending an email, waiting for the link to generate, and clicking on it. That would be good. It's somewhat frustrating when I need to log in."

"Unlike previous vulnerability management systems that relied on network scanning appliances to discover and assess endpoints, Vicarius' agent-based approach is less effective for devices like switches, routers, and printers where agent installation is impractical."

"I would be happy if the patch update could be downloaded to the Vicarius server and then implemented on the client."

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"Alert Logic has better competitive pricing than some of its competitors."

"Our ROI would probably be zero. We don't even use it. It sits in there. We get emails and just delete them. Around the world, we don't even use it."

"Its pricing is very reasonable considering what you get for what you pay. There is quite a good value there. Its licensing is also very logical. They've got the licensing price points at a reasonable level. It is on a monthly license but a yearly contract. There are no additional costs to the standard licensing fees."

"Price of the solution was very reasonable considering the size of our organization at the time, and so it worked out perfectly."

"Almost any product that is on the AWS Marketplace is super easy to subscribe to."

"Vicarius vRx's per-asset pricing makes it easy for me to market to clients as it scales with their needs."

"I do not use other solutions, so I cannot compare its pricing to others, but its price seems okay."

"It is in the middle. It is not the cheapest solution, but it is also not terribly expensive. We found it to be a good fit. It is fairly priced."

"The pricing was very reasonable and fair compared to other products. I liked that there was no tiered system. One price gave access to everything, which is nice. It is not something you get too often with enterprise IT."

"Vicarius' pricing was reasonable compared to the other systems we evaluated."

"The price of vRx seems fair. None of our clients complained about the pricing. They all thought it was reasonable. Once people understood what it does, it didn't take much to get them to sign up."

"The pricing is great because we are a reseller of the product. It is really up to us and Vicarius, and they are very easy to work with."

"In the past, Vicarius vRx was cheap, but now they have adjusted their pricing policy, resulting in higher renewal costs. We have had some conversations with them regarding a smaller jump in the renewal cost."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

23%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Educational Organization

Performing Arts

Computer Software Company

14%

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Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	6

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Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	3

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Alert Logic MDR, Alert Logic Managed Detection and ResponseAlert Logic Threat Manager, Alert Logic Cloud Defender, Critical Watch FusionVM

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Overview

Zafran Security integrates with existing security tools to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities effectively, proving that most critical vulnerabilities are not exploitable, optimizing threat management.

Zafran Security introduces an innovative operating model for managing security threats and vulnerabilities. By leveraging the threat exposure management platform, it pinpoints and prioritizes exploitable vulnerabilities, reducing risk through immediate remediation. This platform enhances your hybrid cloud security by normalizing vulnerability signals and integrating specific IT context data, such as CVE runtime presence and internet asset reachability, into its analysis. No longer reliant on patch windows, Zafran Security allows you to manage risks actively.

What are the key features of Zafran Security?

Threat Exposure Management: Utilizes existing tools to prioritize vulnerabilities and manage threats.
Integrative Analysis: Combines security data with IT context for precise vulnerability management.
Real-time Risk Reduction: Enables immediate risk management without waiting for patches.
Hybrid Cloud Compatibility: Functions across diverse cloud environments for comprehensive security.

What benefits can users expect from Zafran Security?

Improved Security: Enhances protection by efficiently identifying and mitigating risks.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces unnecessary patching expenses by confirming non-exploitable vulnerabilities.
Time Savings: Frees developers to focus on root causes by handling immediate threats.
Comprehensive Insight: Offers a holistic view of security threats and vulnerabilities.

In industries where security is paramount, such as finance and healthcare, Zafran Security provides invaluable protection by ensuring that only exploitable vulnerabilities are addressed. It allows entities to maintain robust security measures while allocating resources efficiently, fitting seamlessly into existing security strategies.

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Fortra's Alert Logic MDR specializes in threat detection and response with features like log access and user-friendly notifications. It is used primarily in extensive e-commerce deployments for network protection.

Fortra's Alert Logic MDR provides a unified interface with comprehensive search capabilities, immediate log access, and efficient reporting tools. Users benefit from accurate scanning, automated security warnings, and rapid response times, supported by SOCs for global visibility. The technology employs human expertise for enhanced threat detection and prevention, with a hardware setup designed to avoid virtual environment issues. However, there's a need for improved error tracing, intuitive navigation, and stronger analytical automation within the platform. Enhancements in setup documentation and user interfaces are desired, alongside demands for a built-in EDR and better alert management systems.

What are the key features of Fortra's Alert Logic MDR?

Comprehensive Searching: Enables detailed investigations.
Immediate Log Access: Provides quick insight into system activities.
User-Friendly Notifications: Enhances alert effectiveness.
Automated Security Warnings: Offers proactive security measures.
Optimized Platform: Delivers efficient functionality across services.
Heuristic Monitoring: Guards against complex threats.

What benefits and ROI should users seek in reviews?

Quick Response Times: Minimizes downtime and improves efficiency.
Global Visibility: Extends threat management reach through SOCs.
Human Expertise: Enhances detection and intervention accuracy.
Streamlined Deployment: Facilitates smoother hardware integration.

Fortra's Alert Logic MDR is widely implemented across public and private sectors for robust network protection. It supports large-scale e-commerce operations, offering advanced detection capabilities with AI and machine learning. Security scanning, intrusion detection, and vulnerability analysis in Kubernetes are key applications.

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Vicarius vRx automates patching and vulnerability mitigation with patchless protection, appreciated for effective third-party app patching and vulnerability prioritization. The platform offers streamlined management via intuitive dashboards, consolidating vulnerability discovery and remediation.

Vicarius vRx streamlines the patching and vulnerability mitigation process, delivering automation through patchless protection. It is favored for its ability to handle third-party applications effectively while providing vulnerability prioritization. The platform's intuitive dashboards allow for efficient management, consolidating vulnerability discovery and remediation efforts. Users note the robust scripting engine and supportive community as significant assets in mitigating critical threats, reducing manual effort and remediation time. Despite the strengths, enhancements in areas like automating patchless solutions, simplifying the login process, and refining networking vulnerability scanning capabilities are needed. The patch update process, reporting, and scripting functionalities require improvements. Name changes have resulted in some confusion, and additional filtering options are desired, along with better cloud integration and system feedback on update statuses. Logging options and mobile device management support are sought after by organizations.

What are the key features of Vicarius vRx?

Patchless Protection: Automates vulnerability mitigation without patches.
Third-Party App Patching: Effectively manages updates for non-native applications.
Vulnerability Prioritization: Identifies and prioritizes critical threats efficiently.
Intuitive Dashboards: Simplifies management and oversight of vulnerabilities.
Robust Scripting Engine: Provides tools for custom threat mitigation strategies.

What benefits can users expect from using Vicarius vRx?

Efficiency Gains: Streamlines vulnerability discovery and remediation processes.
Reduced Remediation Time: Minimizes manual effort with automation.
Improved Threat Response: Quick application of critical patches across numerous assets.
Enhanced Reporting: Delivers detailed insights and compliance support.
Audit Compliance: Meets requirements for PCI, HIPAA, and regulatory frameworks.

Managed service providers utilize Vicarius vRx for compliance needs, focusing on PCI and HIPAA requirements, vulnerability management, and patching. They use it extensively for patch management, covering both Microsoft and third-party updates, and for centralized update management. It aids in achieving visibility and automation, ensuring quick application of necessary patches across numerous assets while enhancing cybersecurity effectiveness with its network functionality and audit compliance features.

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