We performed a comparison between Qualys VMDR and XM Cyber based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7 and others in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management."Provides great functionality."
"Intuitive and easy to use."
"Detects new hosts along with vulnerabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to run different capabilities with the same agent. With only one agent, we can have EDR, vulnerability management, compliance and some basic SaaS security capabilities."
"It is quite easy to implement."
"Technical support is great and we've never really had a problem."
"The biggest benefit is from a security operations perspective, where we are able to drive our security posture upwards by remediating any discovered vulnerabilities."
"Performs automated, regular scans in the network."
"The platform's most valuable feature is attack simulation."
"What I personally like very much, from my experience, is that it is very reliable."
"The disadvantage of working with Qualys is that the graphical interface is quite outdated."
"Qualys does have an on-prem solution, but it is very expensive."
"The reporting and dashboards could improve in Qualys VM. However, they have improved since the previous versions."
"They have integrated with other third parties, but it is still not viable."
"The reporting in this solution can be improved."
"Improve the API speed."
"It's not very user-friendly at times and requires in-depth understanding. So, a layman or someone new to Qualys won't be able to easily understand it. You need education to use the solution."
"We are moving away from Qualys to Defender ATP because I find that Defender ATP is much better at prioritizing the vulnerabilities that I should be looking at."
"XM Cyber could identify all areas of vulnerability. They could expand the identification span for different areas."
"We'd like to see a cheaper price."
Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews while XM Cyber is ranked 26th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 2 reviews. Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2, while XM Cyber is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of XM Cyber writes "Reliable with no false-positives and helpful support". Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management, whereas XM Cyber is most compared with Pentera, Cymulate, SafeBreach, Picus Security and Orca Security.
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