We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Container Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Technical support is helpful."
"The dashboard is very good. It gives our clients a lot of information and allows them to have a complete overview of the system. Everything is visible in one glance."
"Defender is user-friendly and provides decent visibility into threats."
"Defender lets you orchestrate the roll-out from a single pane. Using the Azure portal, you can roll it out over all the servers covered by the entire subscription."
"It has seamless integration with any of the services I mentioned, on Azure, such as IaaS platforms, virtual machines, applications, or databases, because it's an in-house product from Microsoft within the Azure ecosystem."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the remote workforce capabilities and the general experience of the remote workforce."
"One of the features that I like about the solution is it is both a hybrid cloud and also multi-cloud. We never know what company we're going to buy, and therefore we are ready to go. If they have GCP or AWS, we have support for that as well. It offers a single-panel blast across multiple clouds."
"The most valuable features are ransomware protection and access controls. The solution has helped us secure some folders on our systems from unauthorized modifications."
"It's stable and quite reliable."
"Qualys has a continuous endpoint monitoring feature for agent-based scanning. Once you deploy the solution, it monitors everything that is happening every 30 minutes. Then, if there are any vulnerabilities, they are reported."
"The most valuable features of Qualys VM are its ability to do proper vulnerability assessment. It has a lot of updates for all the vulnerability databases from all over the globe. It's an amazing solution when it comes to the versatility of the features it has. Additionally, the reports are very good. It generates very detailed reports about the vulnerabilities inside the environment"
"The most valuable features are vulnerability detection and the scanning capability to enable identification of vulnerabilities across our network."
"What I like about Qualys VM is the dashboard presentation. It's very good."
"It gives a very good overview of the inventory assessment process, and it can be accessed across our company because it's a global tool."
"The integrations for this solution are very good. I use a different product for virtual patching of vulnerabilities and Qualys integrates well with that product."
"The most valuable feature is the connection of threat intelligence information with identified vulnerabilities, which means you can prioritize vulnerabilities according to actual attacks."
"If a customer is already using Okta as an SSO in its entire environment, they will want to continue with it. But Security Center doesn't understand that and keeps making recommendations. It would help if it let us resolve a recommendation, even if it is not implemented."
"When you work with it, the only problem that we're struggling with is that we have 21 different subscriptions we're trying to apply security to. It's impossible to keep everything organized."
"I would like to have the ability to customize executive reporting."
"Microsoft can improve the pricing by offering a plan that is more cost-effective for small and medium organizations."
"You cannot create custom use cases."
"Pricing could be improved. There are limited options based on pricing for the government."
"Another thing that could be improved was that they could recommend processes on how to react to alerts, or recommend best practices based on how other organizations do things if they receive an alert about XYZ."
"After getting a recommendation, it takes time for the solution to refresh properly to show that the problem has been eliminated."
"The tool needs to improve the adding assets and report generation features. I would like to see the policy scan of offline appliances in the product's future releases."
"If anything, I would like to see the user interface modernized a bit more."
"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."
"When tested on Zero day, there were errors."
"The IoT scan is not great."
"Improve the user interface."
"Qualys VMDR is basically susceptible to false positives, and false negatives."
"They have integrated with other third parties, but it is still not viable."
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is ranked 3rd in Container Security with 46 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 11th in Container Security with 77 reviews. Microsoft Defender for Cloud is rated 8.0, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Cloud writes "Provides multi-cloud capability, is plug-and-play, and improves our security posture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Microsoft Defender for Cloud is most compared with AWS GuardDuty, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender XDR, Wiz and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management. See our Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs. Qualys VMDR report.
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