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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

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Ranking in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
103
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (6th), Cloud and Data Center Security (5th), Container Security (3rd), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (4th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (3rd), Compliance Management (3rd)
AWS GuardDuty
Ranking in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Qualys TotalCloud
Ranking in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
10th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (13th), Container Security (11th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (10th), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (2nd), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (9th)
 

Featured Reviews

Andrew W - PeerSpot reviewer
Tells us about vulnerabilities as well as their impact and helps to focus on real issues
Looking at all the different pieces, it has got everything we need. Some of the pieces we do not even use. For example, we do not have Kubernetes Security. We are not running any K8 clusters, so it is good for us. Overall, we find the solution to be fantastic. There can be additional education components. This may not be truly fair to them because of what the product is going for, but it would be great to see additional education for compliance. It is not a criticism of the tool per se, but anything to help non-development resources understand some of the complexities of the cloud is always appreciated. Any additional educational resources are always helpful for security teams, especially those without a development background.
Terence Dube - PeerSpot reviewer
Comprehensive threat detection simplifies security management
GuardDuty is limited to AWS environments. While incorporating Amazon Detective for detailed investigation can be useful, including more granular details in findings, such as specific user actions or historical comparisons, would be beneficial. Furthermore, managing global AWS environments requires setting up additional tools for viewing GuardDuty findings across multiple regions. A unified dashboard that aggregates findings across all regions without requiring manual aggregation could enhance convenience for users.
Vikasha Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Enables us to mitigate and prioritize risks, ultimately reducing our attack surface for critical assets
TotalCloud provides written explanations that guide remediation and eliminate risk. We have used Qualys for over ten years, and TotalCloud and TruRisk for the last two to three years, successfully leveraging their benefits. Our technical account manager is responsive to our requests for additional features or suggestions, ensuring our needs are met. I would rate the helpfulness of written explanations compared to visualizations of attack paths a nine out of ten. The explanations effectively detail how the scores are derived, making them verifiable and useful for regulatory audits. This allows us to clearly justify the chosen approach and the tool's output. Qualys TotalCloud has significantly benefited our organization by reducing our vulnerability count and overall team size. The platform's user-friendly interface has streamlined management, eliminating the need for additional staff and enabling us to efficiently handle our workload. With the support of our technical account manager and their team, we saw initial benefits within a month, achieving full utilization within six months due to the minimal learning curve. TotalCloud provides a single, prioritized view of risk. We are also evaluating Qualys' new Enterprise Threat Management module, part of their enterprise risk platform, recently launched at the Qualys Security Conference. While we are still assessing this module, the dashboards are well-designed, configurable, and useful. The single, prioritized view of risk has significantly streamlined our workload by consolidating multiple sources, resulting in an estimated 60 percent reduction in effort due to the tool's prioritization capabilities. Our use of TruRisk allows us to effectively justify our risk management processes to regulators and auditors. The system provides clear and verifiable risk assessments, which facilitates a smooth audit process and ensures compliance with regulatory requirements. The comprehensiveness of range of risk found by TruRisk Insights is an eight out of ten. The TruRisk Insights feature has helped us identify assets with high vulnerability scores, significantly impacting our business by enabling us to mitigate and prioritize risks, ultimately reducing our attack surface for critical assets. Previously, we applied the same logic to all assets, but TruRisk now allows us to pinpoint the areas of maximum risk and prioritize our efforts accordingly. We've improved our security posture by 30 to 40 percent and reduced our attack surface, consistently maintaining good security scores, such as our Bitsight Security Rating, since implementing Qualys TruRisk over two years ago.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to detect vulnerabilities inside AWS resources and its ability to rescan after a specific duration set by the administrator."
"PingSafe offers three key features: vulnerability management notifications, cloud configuration assistance, and security scanning."
"The key strength of Singularity Cloud Security lies in its ability to pinpoint vulnerabilities in our cloud accounts and identify suspicious activity that warrants further investigation."
"The agentless vulnerability scanning is great."
"Singularity Cloud Security's most valuable features are its ease of scalability and comprehensive security measures."
"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is excellent, and I highly recommend it."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to gain deep visibility into the workloads inside containers."
"Singularity Cloud Security's most valuable features are its ease of scalability and comprehensive security measures."
"We use the tool for threat detection. AWS includes AI features as well. AWS GuardDuty gives us reports."
"The product has automated protection powered by AI/ML, which is now far more powerful than before. It uses AI/ML in its detection algorithm, providing fast and quick results."
"GuardDuty is extensive in terms of configuration and security compliance."
"The solution is easy to use."
"GuardDuty is extensive in terms of configuration and security compliance."
"The solution provides AWS GuardDuty S3 protection, EKS runtime protection, and malware protection."
"The solution will detect abnormalities in the AWS workload and alert us so that we can monitor and take action."
"What we found most valuable in Amazon GuardDuty is its threat detection feature, especially because we were monitoring a huge number of AWS accounts, so we needed a solution that would monitor for any kind of malicious activity. The monitoring aspect of the solution was great because it gave us timely notifications if and when anything happened, and Amazon GuardDuty helped keep us on our toes to make sure we took action right away."
"I would rate Qualys TotalCloud ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Qualys TotalCloud is the visibility it provides."
"The scalability is good as well. I would rate it ten out of ten."
"Qualys TotalCloud provides a single, prioritized view based on requirements such as identifying the most vulnerable assets and calculating the average time to remediate vulnerabilities."
"I like the web API security and IoT scanning features the most. The user-friendly design of TotalCloud's interface enables customers to navigate it and use its full potential easily"
"The best part of Qualys TotalCloud is that I don't have to manage any of the infrastructure, including patching, configuration, or maintaining the solution itself."
"The most valuable feature is the consolidated information that it provides from various platforms."
"The agent and agentless scanning in TotalCloud, particularly the FlexScan method, is incredibly valuable. With traditional scanning approaches, we had to give IP ranges and whitelist IPs. All that is now simplified. FlexScan requires minimal intervention, and after configuration, it automatically collects data and performs necessary scans."
 

Cons

"I would like PingSafe to add real-time detection of vulnerabilities and cloud misconfigurations."
"Whenever I view the processes and the process aspect, it takes a long time to load."
"PingSafe can be improved by developing a comprehensive set of features that allow for automated workflows."
"The area of improvement is the cost, which is high compared to other traditional endpoint protections."
"To enhance the notification system's efficiency, resolved issues should be promptly removed from the portal."
"Crafting customized policies can be tricky."
"PingSafe can improve by eliminating 100 percent of the false positives."
"I would like additional integrations."
"For me, I would say just the presentation of findings, like the dashboards and other stuff, could be improved a bit."
"It would be great if the solution had some automation capabilities."
"We currently find Lacework to be much better at detecting vulnerabilities than AWS GuardDuty. The engines of AWS GuardDuty have to be improved."
"The product needs to improve its cost-efficiency since it is expensive."
"Some of the pain points in Amazon GuardDuty was the cost. When compared to some of the other services, depending on how many we had to monitor, if we had a huge range of accounts, as our accounts increased, we had a cost factor that came into play. Sometimes there were issues, for example, with findings that came up, we wanted to add notes and there were issues back then where notes couldn't be entered properly. If we wanted to leave a note such as "Okay, we have assessed this and this is how we feel", or "This is a false positive", Amazon GuardDuty wasn't allowing us to do that. Even with the suppression of certain findings, there was some issue that we had faced at one time. Those were some of the pain points of the solution."
"An improvement would be to have a mobile version where remote workers can log in and monitor and fix issues."
"GuardDuty is limited to AWS environments."
"AWS GuardDuty needs to be more customer-oriented."
"The support process is inefficient due to the excessive number of replies required when submitting tickets."
"In TotalCloud, I would suggest improvements in policy checks to cater to various inventory types like VPCs, subnets, S3 buckets, or IAMs. There is a lack of data segregation according to criticality or inventory."
"Their customer support needs improvement."
"TotalCloud could improve its scanning of niche devices like Wi-Fi dongles and USB modems because they are often untested. It covers everything else, like laptops, mobile devices, and Bluetooth IoT devices. They can improve on the small IoT devices because hackers and testers use these."
"I would like the ability to disable certain default built-in policies as they can be misleading when creating dashboards. That is the top one."
"Although TotalCloud is a helpful tool, some of its advanced features are still under development."
"With the growing integration of AI, I would like Qualys to enhance its service offerings to better accommodate AI-related risks."
"Qualys TotalCloud needs to improve its accuracy for non-Windows operating systems."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's not expensive. The product is in its initial growth stages and appears more competitive compared to others. It comes in different variants, and I believe the enterprise version costs around $55 per user per year. I would rate it a five, somewhere fairly moderate."
"It is not that expensive. There are some tools that are double the cost of PingSafe. It is good on the pricing side."
"PingSafe's primary advantage is its ability to consolidate multiple tools into a single user interface, but, beyond this convenience, it may not offer significant additional benefits to justify its price."
"Singularity Cloud Workload Security's licensing and price were cheaper than the other solutions we looked at."
"The pricing is somewhat high compared to other market tools."
"I am not involved in the pricing, but it is cost-effective."
"The tool is cost-effective."
"PingSafe falls somewhere in the middle price range, neither particularly cheap nor expensive."
"GuardDuty only enables accounts in regions where you have an active workload. If there are places where you don't have an active workload, you wouldn't even enable them. That's one area where they could allow you to cut down your cost."
"Pricing is determined by the number of events sent."
"The price of the solution is exactly right."
"The platform is inexpensive."
"The tool's licensing model is pay-as-you-go."
"80 percent of the customers are using AWS GuardDuty, and we recommend it due to its low cost, especially for small customers, ranging from five to ten dollars a month. In our policies, we enforce the usage of this service, making it a recommended practice for security."
"I don't have all the details in terms of licensing for Amazon GuardDuty, but my organization does have a license set up for it."
"I have heard that the solution's price is quite high."
"Qualys TotalCloud is expensive, but it offers a premier solution with no headaches."
"While Qualys TotalCloud's pricing is currently acceptable, it is becoming increasingly expensive and may soon be considered overpriced."
"As a middle management member, I do not have direct pricing knowledge, but based on the knowledge from our meetings, its pricing is competitive."
"I am not sure about the pricing. From what I understand, it is a bit on the higher side, but I do not have the exact numbers."
"The pricing is comparable. It is built into our other product, so I cannot piecemeal it. It is a part of our subscription."
"Although Qualys TotalCloud is relatively expensive due to its unique automation features, its cost-effectiveness is rated an eight out of ten, with ten being the most costly."
"Qualys TotalCloud is cost-efficient and was selected for its value compared to other products."
"Qualys TotalCloud offers cost-effective licensing flexibility."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
5%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PingSafe?
The dashboard gives me an overview of all the things happening in the product, making it one of the tool's best featu...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PingSafe?
SentinelOne is relatively cheap. If ten is the most expensive, I would rate it a seven.
What needs improvement with PingSafe?
The areas with room for improvement include the cost, which is higher compared to other security platforms. The dashb...
What do you like most about Amazon GuardDuty?
With anomaly detection, active threat monitoring, and set correlation, GuardDuty alerts me to any unusual user behavi...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon GuardDuty?
GuardDuty is very cheap and operates on a pay-as-you-go basis. It's priced around a dollar per million requests, maki...
What needs improvement with Amazon GuardDuty?
GuardDuty is limited to AWS environments. While incorporating Amazon Detective for detailed investigation can be usef...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qualys TotalCloud?
Qualys TotalCloud is cost-efficient and was selected for its value compared to other products.
What needs improvement with Qualys TotalCloud?
In TotalCloud, I would suggest improvements in policy checks to cater to various inventory types like VPCs, subnets, ...
What is your primary use case for Qualys TotalCloud?
We use TotalCloud for CSPM or Cloud Security Posture Management. We have integrated our cloud accounts with TotalClou...
 

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