Qualys VMDR and Quest KACE Asset Management Appliance are competing in vulnerability and asset management categories. While Qualys VMDR leads in vulnerability detection and customer support, Quest KACE offers superior asset management capabilities, providing more comprehensive features that may deliver more value for investment.
Features: Qualys VMDR offers real-time threat detection, automated remediation, and dynamic asset tagging, elevating security. Quest KACE provides robust hardware and software inventory tracking, patch management, and seamless IT workflow integration, focusing on asset management.
Room for Improvement: Qualys VMDR could enhance its asset tracking, improve integration with third-party tools, and expand reporting customization. Quest KACE could benefit from faster deployment, better scalability options, and improved user interface.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Qualys VMDR's cloud-based deployment is quick, supported by responsive customer service, ensuring smooth integration. Quest KACE offers both cloud and on-premise deployment, providing flexibility with detailed support for IT management tasks, supported by a strong dual deployment model.
Pricing and ROI: Qualys VMDR is seen as cost-effective with a straightforward pricing model and ROI through security outcomes. Despite higher upfront costs, Quest KACE delivers ROI through efficient asset management and IT process optimization, with feature-rich capabilities justifying premium pricing.
Vulnerability Management, Detection, and Response (VMDR) is a cornerstone product of the Qualys TruRisk Platform and a global leader in the enterprise-grade vulnerability management (VM) vendor space. With VMDR, enterprises are empowered with visibility and insight into cyber risk exposure - making it easy to prioritize vulnerabilities, assets, or groups of assets based on business risk. Security teams can take action to mitigate risk, helping the business measure their actual risk exposure over time.
Qualys VMDR offers an all-inclusive risk-based vulnerability management solution to prioritize vulnerabilities and assets based on risk and business criticality. VMDR seamlessly integrates with configuration management databases (CMDB), Qualys Patch Management, Custom Assessment and Remediation (CAR), Qualys TotalCloud and other Qualys and non-Qualys solutions to facilitate vulnerability detection and remediation across the entire enterprise.
With VMDR, users are empowered with actionable risk insights that translate vulnerabilities and exploits into optimized remediation actions based on business impact. Qualys customers can now aggregate and orchestrate data from the Qualys Threat Library, 25+ threat intelligence feeds, and third-party security and IT solutions, empowering organizations to measure, communicate, and eliminate risk across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
The KACE Asset Management Appliance provides comprehensive hardware and software inventory and asset management across a variety of operating systems — Windows®, Mac®, Linux®, UNIX® and Chrome OS™, plus network-connected non-computing devices — through the entire IT asset lifecycle, giving you and your team more time to focus on IT innovation. Fast to implement and easy to use, this tool discovers all hardware and software on your network, and provides ongoing IT inventory management, IT asset management (ITAM) and software asset management (SAM).
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