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Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform vs Qualys TotalCloud comparison

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

ROI

Sentiment score
4.0
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform users benefit from significant ROI through time savings, operational efficiency, and reduced staffing needs.
Sentiment score
5.0
Organizations benefit from Qualys TotalCloud with improved efficiency, enhanced security, and substantial savings in time and resources.
I have definitely seen a return on investment; we save a lot of time on a day-to-day basis, during audits, and we need fewer employees because the platform has a lot of capabilities that do not require manual effort.
Head of Business Operations at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
In case of any attack and compromise, there is a big value return on investment.
Senior Manager Of Cyber Security at Ernst & Young
I estimate that I have managed to save about thirty percent time since I started using the platform.
Manager, Information Technology Risk & Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are able to scan all our assets with less human intervention and achieve overall effective outcomes.
Dns architect at a outsourcing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It has saved about 90% of our time.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
TotalCloud has generated overall savings of 30 to 40 percent across various departments.
Security Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.9
Feedback on Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform's support varies, with praise for responsiveness but criticism for delays and expertise issues.
Sentiment score
6.8
Qualys TotalCloud delivers knowledgeable support with high ratings despite occasional delays, emphasizing personalized and effective problem-solving.
I have seen replies in less than two or three hours.
Mediation Specialist III at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
When we reach the support team, they do not seem to have the skills to handle our questions and instead return with basic scripted questions rather than understanding what we are asking for and providing proper answers.
Security Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
They provide detailed explanations or instructions when needed, making it easy to resolve specific problems.
Cyber Security Threat Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
On a scale from one to ten, I would rate customer support a ten.
Head of IT at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
The technical support from Qualys is excellent, always available 24/7 for any urgent needs.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The technical support team is strong and helpful in solving issues promptly.
Security Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
5.4
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is scalable, adaptable to various infrastructures, with straightforward licensing and excellent support despite minor issues.
Sentiment score
7.3
Qualys TotalCloud excels in scalability and multi-cloud support but faces occasional performance lags and management challenges.
Once we supplied 130 URLs to it for scanning one by one, and it crashed in between.
Mediation Specialist III at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Qualys is fairly elastic.
Principle Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The use cases that we have handled have not presented much of a challenge on the scalability part.
VP – Head PM O at Vodafone Idea Ltd.
I would rate its scalability a ten out of ten.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The scalability of Qualys TotalCloud is excellent, and I would rate it as ten out of ten.
IT Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
For scalability, I would rate it a ten out of ten.
Cyber Security Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is stable and consistent, rated positively despite minor glitches and occasional internal network issues.
Sentiment score
8.2
Qualys TotalCloud is praised for high stability, reliability, minimal downtime, advanced scanning, prompt support, and seamless user experience.
I would describe Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform as stable regarding crashes or downtimes ever happening.
Cloud Security Engineer at Punch Powertrain nv
It is not critical in the way that we have for Cortex XDR where if it fails, then the organization basically ceases to function.
Principle Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
In terms of stability, I would rate it somewhere around seven.
VP – Head PM O at Vodafone Idea Ltd.
It has a lot of scanning mechanisms, which are agentless APIs, eBPF, and cloud agents, that are highly reliable.
Sr Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would rate it a ten out of ten for stability.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
We have not encountered any lagging or crashing from the tool.
Senior Information Security Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

The Qualys platform needs better AI integration, user interface, and reporting to improve usability, accuracy, and decision-making.
Qualys TotalCloud needs UI/UX improvements, enhanced automation, better integration, clearer licensing, and faster vulnerability detection for competitiveness.
We need to export data to external tools to perform the work that is supposed to be done in the tool itself, so we do not have any real return on investment using this tool.
Security Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It would be beneficial if the solution could correctly identify the exact OS version, potentially requiring code adjustments.
IT Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
If you have uploaded a file containing many IP addresses, you don't have a straightforward option to check what the IP addresses were.
Mediation Specialist III at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Ideally, updates should be more immediate, enabling quicker implementation of solutions.
Project Lead at Persistent Systems
Our goal is to integrate all these functions into Qualys, creating a single dashboard for comprehensive security monitoring and management.
Senior Information Security Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
If we find a critical or high vulnerability on an IP or server, the remediation steps should be communicated clearly.
Cyber Security Manager at RJ Corp Retail
 

Setup Cost

Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform offers competitive pricing, scalable with assets, noted for value and ease in implementation.
Qualys TotalCloud offers competitive pricing and flexibility, especially for large enterprises, with quick setup and comprehensive integration.
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform was not expensive regarding the pricing point.
Cloud Security Engineer at Punch Powertrain nv
The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is expensive.
Principle Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing of Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform are as per our budgets, and we found it to be economical.
Head of Business Operations at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
In our case, replacing the tool will give us better functionalities without increasing the cost compared to what we pay today for the competitor.
Head of IT at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
Qualys TotalCloud offers good pricing that is affordable and competitive with the market.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Qualys TotalCloud offers competitive pricing given its comprehensive suite of features, including integration, assessment, remediation, and detection capabilities, all within a single platform.
IT Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Users appreciate Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform for its detailed reporting, seamless integration, AI risk assessments, and efficient vulnerability management.
Qualys TotalCloud optimizes cloud security with AI, enhanced risk management, and efficient threat detection across multi-cloud environments.
The platform scans the entire environment and IP range, providing comprehensive vulnerability reports along with solutions to address these vulnerabilities.
IT Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It will also provide the information of the CVEs related to it, CVSS score related to it, and the CVEs will help you to understand more about how bad it can get.
Mediation Specialist III at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
It identified trust distributions amongst our assets, what are high risk items, what are critical things, vulnerabilities that can be exploited, and what are critical priorities for us.
Cloud Security Engineer at Punch Powertrain nv
The AI enhancements simplify vulnerability management by eliminating the need for SQL queries to create policies.
Project Lead at Persistent Systems
For example, if some machines have open vulnerabilities and the remediation team resolves them, the on-demand feature allows us to verify vulnerability resolution promptly.
Senior Security Consultant at CyberNxt Solutions LLP
Qualys TotalCloud is also used to provide unified vulnerability and threat assessment across both IaaS and SaaS.
Group IT Cloud and Cybersecurity Engineer at Safetykleen
 

Categories and Ranking

Qualys Enterprise TruRisk P...
Ranking in Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
10th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Cloud and Data Center Security (8th)
Qualys TotalCloud
Ranking in Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
54
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (5th), Container Security (8th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (7th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (6th), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) category, the mindshare of Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is 0.9%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qualys TotalCloud is 2.4%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qualys TotalCloud2.4%
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform0.9%
Other96.7%
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
 

Featured Reviews

PK
VP – Head PM O at Vodafone Idea Ltd.
Governance dashboards have improved risk visibility but still need smarter automated decisions
The governance part is the most prominent area for improvement. We want to have a dashboard with just one click where the KPIs are pre-configured as per the business requirement and those things are monitored on a regular basis to check how things are moving. Governance and high-level management or board level visibility matter the most. We are trying to incorporate artificial models which can take care of many things that are currently taken care of manually or through certain jobs so that they can be automated with the help of AI models or agents. We will progress as the AI model matures with pattern learning and all those things. We want self-decision capabilities. Not just analysis and giving alerts, but even taking decisions of actions and performing those actions. The first step would be to not only alert that there is an issue or threat, but to evaluate the threat itself in generality and suggest something. The second step is where those suggestions will definitely have some good minds working on them, but only if they are suitable will we make it as a learning model. Otherwise, we will discard and modify those things. The second level would be to let the learning model learn and then gradually figure out whether we can delegate the decision in the sense of the action that they can perform, see it and then evaluate whether it is falling in line as per the expectation. This is how we will progress on a use case basis only.
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

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
18%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise38
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform?
My experience with the price, implementation cost, and licensing of Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is that it is easy to implement, fairly competitive in price, and offers a very good experience.
What needs improvement with Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform?
I think Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform could be improved by integrating it more with external artificial intelligence agents to integrate them into the ecosystem we have, thus feeding it throug...
What is your primary use case for Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform?
My main use case for Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is to integrate it with different cybersecurity solutions and other solutions and to identify the main findings and be able to prioritize whe...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qualys TotalCloud?
We purchased Qualys TotalCloud for GCP and Azure as well. It is comparatively better than others regarding pricing. The pricing is reasonable for Qualys TotalCloud without facing any challenges.
What needs improvement with Qualys TotalCloud?
I am unsure about how Qualys TotalCloud can be improved. I do not have anything else to add about the needed improvements, even if it is something small.
What is your primary use case for Qualys TotalCloud?
My main use case for Qualys TotalCloud is telemetry, although I am unsure about the specifics. A quick specific example of how I use Qualys TotalCloud for telemetry is to look at risk. I do not hav...
 

Also Known As

Qualys Cloud Platform
Qualys TotalCloud with FlexScan
 

Overview

Find out what your peers are saying about Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform vs. Qualys TotalCloud and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
921,148 professionals have used our research since 2012.