Amazon Inspector and Qualys TotalCloud compete in the cloud security solutions category. Based on comparisons, Qualys TotalCloud seems to hold an upper hand with its feature-rich platform providing better value despite Amazon Inspector's favorable pricing.
Features: Amazon Inspector provides automated security assessments for AWS workloads, integration with AWS services, and prioritization of findings. Qualys TotalCloud offers vulnerability management, policy compliance, multi-cloud support, extensive asset discovery, and integration capabilities.
Room for Improvement: Amazon Inspector could enhance multi-cloud support, expand asset discovery capabilities, and improve customer support. Qualys TotalCloud may simplify deployment processes, optimize AWS integration, and improve cost management for smaller businesses.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon Inspector benefits from seamless integration within AWS environments enabling quick deployment for AWS-centric businesses. Qualys TotalCloud, with its multi-cloud support, involves a more intricate deployment but offers robust customer service.
Pricing and ROI: Amazon Inspector is competitively priced for AWS-invested users offering attractive ROI with lower setup costs. Qualys TotalCloud might be costlier upfront but offers a broader feature set justifying its investment for long-term savings and benefits.
I have not needed to use AWS support for Inspector, which indicates that the service is almost perfect.
They are helpful, respond to my queries, and can answer any question.
Qualys's tech support is highly responsive, providing multiple ways to interact with them.
Qualys' customer service provides quality answers, but the response time is long, even though it is within the SLA.
Automation for scheduling 'turn on' and 'turn off' operations and better integration with CloudWatch for alarms could enhance the service's functionality.
Ideally, the scanner should automatically detect and scan all subdomains, even if not explicitly defined, ensuring comprehensive vulnerability assessment.
An area for improvement would be to focus on risks related to AI, such as large language models and potential data leakage.
The response part of the Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) module can be improved.
Scalability is not an issue with Amazon Inspector as it is scalable to the maximum, covering any business scale effectively.
Qualys TotalCloud receives a perfect ten out of ten for scalability due to its effortless setup of new instances.
We started our organization about nine months back. We started with about 30 users, and we now have more than 100 users.
Our organization currently uses it to manage over 1200 web applications.
The pricing for Amazon Inspector is very fair, and I would rate it as two out of ten, with ten being the most expensive.
I would rate the price of Qualys TotalCloud eight out of ten with ten being the most expensive.
Qualys TotalCloud's pricing is currently acceptable, it is becoming increasingly expensive.
Pricing is managed by our finance team; however, Qualys TotalCloud offers cost-effective licensing flexibility.
Amazon Inspector is highly stable, rated ten out of ten, and this stability impacts business security and administration positively.
Overall, the support provided has been excellent.
It is a stable solution, which is why we chose it.
Continuous monitoring is crucial to ensure system stability and avoid vulnerabilities or threats.
The most valuable feature of Amazon Inspector is the categorization of findings, which filters vulnerabilities by instance, container image, container repository, and Lambda function.
This view of risk helps reduce the work we would have to do to combine multiple sources to prioritize risk.
It will help cybersecurity professionals monitor the cloud and find vulnerabilities.
We are enjoying the new feature, FlexScan, which is valuable for Internet-facing VMs.
Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS. Amazon Inspector automatically assesses applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices. After performing an assessment, Amazon Inspector produces a detailed list of security findings prioritized by level of severity. These findings can be reviewed directly or as part of detailed assessment reports which are available via the Amazon Inspector console or API.
Amazon Inspector security assessments help you check for unintended network accessibility of your Amazon EC2 instances and for vulnerabilities on those EC2 instances. Amazon Inspector assessments are offered to you as pre-defined rules packages mapped to common security best practices and vulnerability definitions. Examples of built-in rules include checking for access to your EC2 instances from the internet, remote root login being enabled, or vulnerable software versions installed. These rules are regularly updated by AWS security researchers.
TotalCloud is the Qualys approach to Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) for cloud infrastructure and SaaS environments. With TotalCloud, customers extend TruRisk insights (transparent cyber risk scoring methodology) from the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform to their cloud environments allowing for a seamless unified view of cyber risk across on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
Features and capabilities of Qualys TotalCloud include, but are not limited to:
Discover: Complete visibility and insights into cyber-risk exposure across multi-cloud. Continuously discover and monitor all your workloads across a multi-cloud environment for a 360-degree view of your cloud footprint. Identify known and previously unknown internet-facing assets for 100% visibility and tracking of risks.
Assess: Comprehensive cloud-native assessments with FlexScanTM. Extensive scanning capabilities with Qualys FlexScan, including no-touch, agentless, API- and snapshot-based scanning, along with agent- and network-based scanning for in-depth assessment. Use these multiple scanning methods to scan a workload to get a unified and comprehensive view of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
Prioritize: Unified security view to prioritize cloud risk with TruRiskTM. Experience a unified risk-based view of cloud security with insights across workloads, services, and resources. Qualys TruRisk quantifies security risk by workload criticality and vulnerabilities; it correlates with ransomware, malware, and exploitation threat intelligence to prioritize, trace, and reduce risk.
Defend: Real-time protection against evolving and unknown threats with InstaProtectTM. Qualys enables continuous monitoring of all cloud assets to ensure they are protected against threats and attacks at runtime. Qualys keeps your cloud runtime safe by detecting known and unknown threats across the entire kill chain in near real-time across a multi-cloud environment.
Remediate: Fast remediation with QFlow – no code, drag-and-drop workflows. The integration of QFlow technology into Qualys TotalCloud saves security and DevOps teams valuable time and resources. Automation and no-code, drag-and-drop workflows help simplify the time-consuming operational tasks of assessing vulnerabilities on ephemeral cloud assets, alerting on high-priority threats, remediating misconfigurations, and quarantining high-risk assets.
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