Morphisec vs Tenable Vulnerability Management comparison

Morphisec and Tenable are both solutions in the Vulnerability Management category. Morphisec is ranked #57, while Tenable is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.8. Morphisec holds a 0.7% mindshare in VM, compared to Tenable’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Morphisec users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Tenable users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Tenable Vulnerability Management and Morphisec are strong competitors in the cybersecurity domain. Tenable has an advantage in vulnerability management due to its comprehensive scanning capabilities, whereas Morphisec excels in endpoint security with its innovative protection features.

Features: Tenable Vulnerability Management offers comprehensive vulnerability scanning and seamless integration with third-party solutions. It provides visibility across traditional and cloud environments and supports continuous monitoring with agents. Morphisec offers endpoint security focusing on signatureless protection and memory morphing, providing defense against zero-day attacks. It also has a single console that ensures full visibility, beneficial for small teams.

Room for Improvement: Tenable users suggest the need for customizable dashboards, better integration for SMBs, and improved support, with complex reporting and pricing as concerns. Morphisec could enhance its reporting and customer interaction, along with improving alert systems for updates. Both solutions have room to grow in dashboard functionality and user communication.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Tenable provides deployment options across public, private, on-premises, and hybrid clouds, although its technical support is criticized for slow response times and documentation issues. Morphisec is recognized for easy deployment and commendable technical support, but could integrate better with non-Microsoft antivirus solutions.

Pricing and ROI: Tenable is perceived as expensive for SMBs, with potential for a pay-as-you-go option to enhance value, yet it delivers a good ROI by identifying vulnerabilities. Morphisec's competitive pricing offers solid ROI, seen as more affordable compared to enterprise solutions like CrowdStrike, providing robust protection features that make it a cost-effective selection over traditional antivirus solutions.

To learn more, read our detailed Morphisec vs. Tenable Vulnerability Management Report (Updated: June 2026).

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Qualys TotalCloud

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Qualys TotalCloud is 1.1%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Morphisec is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tenable Vulnerability Management is 2.8%, down from 5.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Tenable Vulnerability Management	2.8%
Qualys TotalCloud	1.1%
Morphisec	0.7%
Other	95.4%

Vulnerability Management

Featured Reviews

Robert Orłowski

IT Security Expert at Alior Bank S.A.

Unified risk scoring has improved our cloud visibility and simplifies remediation priorities

Qualys TotalCloud provides unified vulnerability and threat assessment across both IAS and SaaS. This solution provides a single prioritized view of risk, which helps reduce the work I would have to do. We are no longer based on CVSS; we are based on Qualys risk scoring, which is based on CVSS plus internal findings made by Qualys, and then assigns its own score. The TruRisk insight feature has found a small number of assets with high vulnerability scores, though I am cautious since some information is classified. Qualys TotalCloud has positively impacted our bank's performance, and we have definitely seen benefits after implementing this solution.

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Rick Schibler

VP of Information Technology at Kentucky Trailer

Offers in-memory protection at a lower price than competitors

Morphisec's in-memory protection is probably the most valuable feature because it stops malicious activity from occurring. If something tries to install or act as a sleeper agent, Morphisec will detect and stop it. Morphisec's Moving Target Defense is critical to hardening our attack surface. If it detects something, it indicates whether it's valid. That means you've got a breach requiring investigation. It detects anomalies but doesn't necessarily point to what caused them. You still need to do that work. The solution is reasonably easy to administer. They made some changes last year, adding a cloud-based monitoring solution that makes deploying and monitoring our endpoints easy.

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Chethan Gowda

Windows Security Patching Operation III (Cyber Operations) at CBTS

Have maintained accurate vulnerability scans and gained actionable remediation insights across thousands of servers

Tenable Vulnerability Management agents are very lightweight, and the results we get are very accurate. The solutions they provide to us, assuming if one vulnerability exists, there will be a solution. The resolution they give us in wording will be the best solution. The exploit rates and the reports we get provide a lot of information, making it very easy for us to verify.The main benefit of integration with Tenable Vulnerability Management is that there will be no lack of missing vulnerabilities when it comes to the patching environment. That is one of the key aspects of why we have integrated Tenable to our patching tools. It has a vast capacity of pushing the data to our tools due to its capability and compatibility. That is also one of the reasons why we are using Tenable Vulnerability Management.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Qualys TotalCloud provides unified vulnerability and threat assessment for IaaS and SaaS and a single prioritized view of risk, which helps reduce my workload by not having to combine multiple sources."

"Its excellent graphical interface makes the scanning process simple."

"Qualys TotalCloud's most valuable features are its security capabilities that help identify and mitigate risk factors."

"By integrating TotalCloud, we have significantly reduced vulnerabilities in our deployment pipeline."

"One of Qualys' best features is its categorization, which allows us to see the types of assets, their security postures, and the AI-powered version of the tool."

"One of the most valuable features of Qualys TotalCloud is FlexScan, which is specifically for internet-facing VMs. We found this feature to be very useful. It was a key differentiator for us."

"Qualys TotalCloud's most valuable features are its cloud security posture management, Kubernetes, and container security capabilities."

"I would recommend Qualys TotalCloud to other users because it is cost-efficient and has a good return on investment."

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"With Morphisec, at least when it does happen, I feel confident that we have in place solutions that will not only prevent it, but also let us know when something has happened."

"The biggest feature is that it hides everything from your operating system that's running in-memory from anything to try to run against it. That's the most unique thing that's on the market. There's nothing else out there that's quite like that. That's a big selling point and why we went with it. It does exactly what the design does. If you can't find it, you can't execute against it."

"Morphisec is quite an important tool for us in terms of security and InfoSec because of the malware protection."

"What's valuable is really the whole kit and caboodle of the Morphisec agent. What it does is genius, in a way, until the bad guys get wise to it. You set it up and then you watch the dashboard. There isn't really much tinkering."

"Morphisec makes it super easy for our IT team to prevent breaches of critical systems; it is a one-click install, then it takes care of the rest."

"Morphisec has enabled us to become a lot less paranoid when it comes to staff clicking on things or accessing things that they shouldn't that could infect the whole system. Our original ransomware attack that happened came from someone's Google drive and then just filtered on through that. It has put our minds at ease a lot more in running it. It's also another layer of security that has been proven to be effective for us."

"In a month, we are saving the effort of four to five days, and earlier we used to have a dedicated person and now we don't need a dedicated resource, which has reduced our security spending and we are saving approximately $600 a month."

"It's simple, it's easy, and it works."

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"The solution's most valuable feature is providing a single pane of visibility on all the infrastructure and its status."

"The product has many features and continues to develop its capabilities at a rapid pace."

"It has greatly impacted us by providing asset visibility."

"Tenable Vulnerability Management agents are very lightweight, and the results we get are very accurate."

"The vulnerability scanning has been great as it's helped us to define some issues around the updates of some things, and some items surrounding services we need to take care of."

"Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is an easy-to-use product. I"

"I would rate Tenable's dashboards and reporting capabilities for illustrating security posture a nine out of ten, with ten being the best."

"The stability is commendable, and I would rate Tenable ten out of ten."

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Cons

"Overall, we are satisfied with it. However, the response part of the Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) module can be improved. It is not yet in place according to requirements; it is not completely available even though the module has been released."

"The response part of the Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) module can be improved."

"It has been working very well, but it would be helpful if the dashboard could generate reports tailored to specific compliance needs. For example, in India, we have to comply with RBI and SEBI guidelines. It w"

"Qualys's ticketing system can be confusing when assigning tasks to individuals, and support could be improved by offering instant call solutions with engineers in addition to ticket replies."

"TotalCloud could improve the classification of vulnerabilities. Specifically, it could enhance the categorization of what aspects fall under patches resolved by OS or software updates and what pertains to configuration adjustments."

"To improve the user experience, reporting could be simplified for better comprehension by end users and project managers, facilitating issue resolution."

"The main area needing improvement is integration. Although the team is strengthening TotalCloud, integration can be enhanced with SIEM, SOAR, ITSM, and other sources."

"I would appreciate additional integration options to connect Qualys TotalCloud with our other vulnerability management tools."

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"It would be nice if they could integrate Morphisec with other traditional antivirus solutions beyond Microsoft Defender. That is probably my biggest gripe."

"I haven't been able to get the cloud deployment to work. When there's an update, I'm supposed to be able to roll it out for the cloud solution, but right now I'm continuing to use our SCCM solution to update it."

"Morphisec is a venture startup. They are still early in their growth stage. They need to get mature on their customer support and on how they interface with system tools."

"Overall, I don't know 100% if it's increasing our security posture, but it does give us a nice peace of mind."

"Automating reports needs improvement. I would like to have better reporting capabilities within it or automated reporting to be a little bit more dynamic. That's something I know they're working on. We literally are in the process. We started the process a week and a half ago of going to their latest version, so I've not seen their latest one up and running yet."

"The only area that really needs improvement is the reporting functionality. Gathering the detailed information that is in the system for an executive, or for me as a director, could be better. Some of the interface and reporting aspects are a little bit dated. They're working on it."

"We have only had four attacks in the last year, "attacks" being some benign PDF from a vendor that, for some reason, were triggered. There were no actual attacks. They were just four false positives, or something lowly like adware. There have been false positives with both the on-premises solution and the cloud solution."

"Some of the filters for the console need improvement. There are alerts that show up and just being able to acknowledge that we've seen those and not turn them off, but dismiss them, would be a huge benefit."

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"I don't recommend Tenable.io Vulnerability Management for web scanning"

"The response times from the customer service and support team could be improved."

"Technical support from Tenable is rated six out of ten. It needs improvement in response time and addressing feature requests promptly."

"I'm not satisfied with the reporting structure."

"The one drawback that we have found is the reports. We are still getting reports from Tenable.sc since the maturity levels on the reports are lacking."

"Tenable Vulnerability Management is not very effective for real-time risk prioritization for our organization's security strategy."

"The dashboard and the main panel could be better. It's lacking right now."

"I would evaluate Tenable Vulnerability Management's customer service and technical support as average."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Qualys TotalCloud is expensive."

"TotalCloud's price is about right where I would expect it to be."

"Qualys TotalCloud offers cost-effective licensing flexibility."

"Qualys TotalCloud is expensive, but it offers a premier solution with no headaches."

"Qualys TotalCloud is cost-efficient and was selected for its value compared to other products."

"I am not sure about the pricing. From what I understand, it is a bit on the higher side, but I do not have the exact numbers."

"As a middle management member, I do not have direct pricing knowledge, but based on the knowledge from our meetings, its pricing is competitive."

"Its price seems higher compared to other tools, but it is worth it. If they could adjust the pricing and make it comparable with other tools, that would be great."

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"Price-wise, it's on the higher side. A traditional antivirus solution is cheaper, but in terms of security and manageability, its ROI is better than a traditional antivirus. I would recommend it to anybody evaluating or considering an antivirus solution. If your system gets compromised, the cost of ransom would be a lot more. This way, it saves a lot of cost."

"It does not have multi-tenants. If South Africa wants to show only the machines that they have, they need their own cloud incidence. It is not possible to have that in a single cloud incidence with multiple tenants in it, instead you need to have multiple cloud incidences. Then, if you have that, it will be more expensive. However, they are going to change that, which is good."

"We are still using a separate tool. I know for our 600 or I think we're actually licensed for up to 700 users, it runs me 23 or $24,000 a year. When you're talking to that many users plus servers being protected, that's well worth the investment for that dollar amount."

"Morphisec is reasonably priced because our parent company's other subsidiaries use different products like CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike is four or five times more expensive than Morphisec. The competitive pricing saves us money in our overall security stack."

"Compared to their competitors, the price of Morphisec is not that high. You can easily deploy it on a large-scale or small-scale network."

"It is an annual subscription basis per device. For the devices that we have in scope right now, it is about $25,000 a year."

"It is priced correctly for what it does. They end up doing a good deal of discounting, but I think it is priced appropriately."

"The pricing is definitely fair for what it does."

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"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high price, I rate the pricing an eight. So, it is a pretty expensive solution."

"The tool is reasonably priced."

"Compared to other VM solutions, Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is expensive."

"Tenable.io Vulnerability Management's pricing solution model isn't great."

"Tenable.io is not known for being a cheap product."

"The total cost we pay for this solution is over 45K. This is for a large education organization."

"The cost is determined by the number of endpoints, which is approximately one dollar per endpoint."

"The product costs us around $137,000 annually for 4000 to 5000 assets."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Construction Company

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Construction Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	29

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	8

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	22

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qualys TotalCloud?

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Also Known As

Qualys TotalCloud with FlexScan

Morphisec, Morphisec Moving Target Defense

Tenable.io

Overview

Qualys TotalCloud enhances security posture across cloud environments with continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and risk visualization, ensuring efficient threat assessment and automated remediation for improved cyber risk reduction.

Qualys TotalCloud offers a robust suite of security tools essential for organizations managing multi-cloud infrastructures. By integrating cloud accounts and automating workflows, it supports AWS, Azure, and GCP, offering comprehensive vulnerability management and zero-day detection. The platform's user-friendly design, combined with its extensive risk management and unified threat assessment capabilities, enables organizations to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities effectively. TruRisk Insights provides clear insights on cyber risks, while the automation options streamline patch management and scanning processes. API integration across IaaS and SaaS environments further enhances resource allocation efficiency and saves time, addressing misconfigurations across cloud environments.

What are the most important features of Qualys TotalCloud?

Accurate Vulnerability Reports: Delivers precise and actionable insights for risk mitigation.
Zero-Day Detection: Identifies and addresses zero-day vulnerabilities proactively.
Unified Threat Assessment: Offers comprehensive evaluation of threats across the environment.
Extensive Risk Management: Manages risks effectively with advanced insights and prioritization.
Continuous Monitoring: Provides non-stop surveillance for vulnerabilities and threats.
Cloud-Native Automation: Streamlines processes and reduces manual efforts using automation.
FlexScan for Internet-Facing VMs: Scans external VMs efficiently to detect vulnerabilities.
Dashboard Risk Visualization: Clear visualization helps prioritize vulnerabilities.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Improved Security Posture: Enhances threat detection and response across clouds.
Time Savings: Automation reduces time spent on manual vulnerability management.
Resource Efficiency: Better allocation of resources through streamlined workflows.
Enhanced Risk Prioritization: Focus on critical vulnerabilities for effective mitigation.
Integrated Cloud Accounts: Facilitates seamless cloud management and security.

Qualys TotalCloud is deployed in sectors needing rigorous vulnerability management, such as finance and healthcare. Companies utilize it to secure multi-cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and GCP, focus on compliance, and integrate security into CI/CD pipelines to detect and remedy threats pre-deployment.

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Morphisec enhances security with its signatureless attack prevention, integrating smoothly with Microsoft Defender. Users benefit from real-time threat detection and seamless system integration, protecting against zero-day threats and ransomware across networks.

Morphisec's security solution focuses on preventing cyber threats without requiring threat signatures or user action. Its integration with Microsoft Defender offers simplified visibility and management while delivering quick responses. Lightweight in nature, Morphisec ensures zero performance degradation and employs in-memory protection along with Moving Target Defense. This approach effectively counters zero-day threats and ransomware, maintaining a user-centric dashboard that eases administrative workloads. Morphisec's easy deployment also enables small teams to manage risks and uphold robust security measures efficiently.

What are Morphisec's key features?

Signatureless Threat Prevention: Stops attacks without threat signatures or user interaction.
Microsoft Defender Integration: Provides unified management and quick response capabilities.
In-Memory Protection: Shields against zero-day and ransomware threats efficiently.
Moving Target Defense: Minimizes exposure to in-memory attacks.
User-Friendly Dashboard: Simplifies administration by reducing burdens.
Easy Deployment: Facilitates straightforward setup for small teams.

What benefits and ROI should be considered in user reviews?

Real-Time Detection: Immediate identification of threats enhances proactive threat management.
Seamless Integration: Compatible with existing systems, reducing delay risks.
Cloud-Based Updates: Ensures current protection with minimal manual input.
Multi-Layered Security: Adds a solid last defense layer, supplementing other antivirus solutions.

Morphisec is widely used across industries like financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing to bolster defenses against malware and ransomware. Its deployment spans workstations and servers, integrating efficiently into existing infrastructures. Industries value real-time threat detection, ease of deployment, and cloud-based updates, noting its ability to identify threats missed by other antivirus solutions.

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Tenable Vulnerability Management offers efficient scanning, reporting, and integration capabilities. It supports extensive visibility and risk management for diverse environments while providing a user-friendly experience with strong cloud capabilities and container scanning.

Tenable Vulnerability Management is crucial for vulnerability assessment and managing security across network infrastructures. It effectively handles cloud and on-premises scans, identifying risks and enhancing cybersecurity measures with detailed reports. With features like automated scanning and risk prioritization, users manage vulnerabilities efficiently. Despite its strong points, improvements in pricing, navigation, and customization are desired, alongside better integration and AI-driven detection.

What are the most important features of Tenable Vulnerability Management?

Automated Scanning: Simplifies the identification of vulnerabilities through efficient scans.
Comprehensive Reporting: Offers detailed insights into potential security risks.
Seamless Integration: Easily connects with third-party tools for extended functionality.
Cloud Capabilities: Provides strong security management in cloud environments.
Container Scanning: Specialized in scanning containerized applications for threats.
Real-time Prioritization: Helps prioritize vulnerabilities for effective resolution.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Enhanced Security Posture: Achieves improved overall protection from threats.
Efficient Risk Management: Streamlines the process of identifying and mitigating risks.
Extensive Visibility: Offers a clear understanding of assets and vulnerabilities across the network.
Scalability: Adapts to varying organizational sizes and needs effectively.

In industries like finance, healthcare, and education, Tenable Vulnerability Management supports robust cybersecurity measures. Organizations utilize it for scanning IT infrastructures, conducting cloud assessments, and performing endpoint analysis to mitigate threats in critical environments.

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Lenovo/Motorola, TruGreen, Covenant Health, Citizens Medical Center

Global Payments AU/NZ

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