Users have noted that Qualys VMDR offers strong automated vulnerability scanning capabilities, comprehensive reporting features, and integration capabilities with other security tools, although there are concerns about the outdated user interface and system performance. On the other hand, Prisma Cloud is praised for its competitive pricing, ease of deployment, and comprehensive security capabilities.
The summary above is based on 142 interviews we conducted recently with Qualys VMDR and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"We were pleased with Prisma's custom and built-in reports. We could go into the dashboard and see all these notifications telling us which subscriptions didn't have TLS 1.2 enabled. The security controls were the most valuable features."
"Syslog CLIs are the best feature."
"It supports the multi-cloud environment beautifully."
"I was looking for a vulnerability scanner and I was looking for one place in which I could find everything. This tool not only does vulnerability scanning, but it also gives me an asset management tool."
"I found the network queue sets useful. I also liked the Workload Protection Module, the vulnerability findings, and how the rule sets handle the vulnerabilities based on severity."
"It provides good visibility and control regardless of the complexity."
"The visibility on alerts helps you investigate more easily and see details faster."
"The most valuable feature is the continuous cloud compliance monitoring and alerting."
"What I like about Qualys VM is the dashboard presentation. It's very good."
"It's really beneficial for scanning and interacting with the agent."
"I find the solution's dashboard interesting...The response time is fine. You can pull up reports without dragging or consuming bandwidth."
"I find the most valuable features are the continuous monitoring. Even on premises, there is constant monitoring."
"It is very easy to use and there are lots of options. We can usually easily go through it and all of the things we want to configure, and we can configure everything to our specifications very easily."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The process of defining and discovering scans is organized efficiently."
"It is a simple solution that makes scanning easy. You just give it a scheduled task, and it will do everything for you."
"One thing that is missing is Cloud Run runtime security—serverless. That would be great to have in the tool. It's not that easy to have Cloud Run in specific environments."
"They should improve the user experience."
"I would like to see the inclusion of automated counter-attack, although this is probably illegal."
"The innovation side of the solution could be more efficient and more detailed."
"Sometimes we do get false alerts. That should be improved."
"The Palo Alto support needs to improve."
"The alignment of Twistlock Defender agents with image repositories needs improvement. These deployed agents have no way of differentiating between on-premise and cloud-based image repositories. If I deploy a Defender agent to secure an on-premise Kubernetes cluster, that agent also tries to scan my ECR image repositories on AWS. So, we have limited options for aligning those Defenders with the repositories that we want them to scan. It is scanning everything rather than giving us the ability to be real granular in choosing which agents can scan which repositories."
"Prisma Cloud's dashboards should be customizable. That's very important. Other similar solutions are more elastic so you have the power to create customized dashboards. In Prisma Cloud, you cannot do that."
"It's quite complex on the way it is set up, so it takes a fair bit of time in order to get your head around it in order to deploy it. Once you've deployed it, then you're never confident on the versions of the browsers and the SSL certificates, etc. You have to always go back into Qualys and check."
"I would like to see more accuracy in detections, better reporting capabilities, and better dashboard download capabilities."
"Qualys VM could improve by having more skilled support personnel."
"I would like to see this solution simplified to work more easily in a multi-cloud environment."
"One of the biggest issues from the clients' perspective is that all Qualys computing is on the cloud."
"Qualys could improve the inbuilt dashboards."
"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."
"Qualys could be improved in its overall performance compared to other vulnerability management or scanning tools."
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Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 1st in Container Security with 81 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 11th in Container Security with 76 reviews. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The dashboard is very user-friendly and can be used to generate custom RQL based on user requirements". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and SUSE NeuVector, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security. See our Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Qualys VMDR report.
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