Morphisec vs Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management comparison

Morphisec and Qualys are both solutions in the Vulnerability Management category. Morphisec is ranked #57, while Qualys is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.9. Morphisec holds a 0.5% mindshare in VM, compared to Qualys’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Morphisec users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Qualys users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

Morphisec and Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management compete in the cybersecurity space, focusing on threat prevention and asset management respectively. Morphisec's unique deterministic attack prevention sets it apart, reducing administration efforts and providing a competitive edge through simplified security event monitoring.

Features: Morphisec's in-memory attack prevention technology is unparalleled, offering security without traditional threat signatures. Integration with Microsoft Defender allows for comprehensive monitoring of security events. The system is light on endpoint resources, ensuring no performance degradation. Qualys offers a robust inventory management system and dynamic tagging, providing visibility into a vast array of assets. Its integration capabilities and comprehensive asset visibility make it ideal for large organizations.

Room for Improvement: Morphisec could improve by expanding cloud deployment options and enhancing communication regarding updates. Reducing false positives would enhance user experience. Qualys could become more accessible to smaller organizations by lowering costs. Enhancing the user interface and adding more customizable reporting features could bolster usability. Adjusting scan frequencies could provide more efficient, timely insights.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Morphisec offers flexible deployment options across different cloud environments with highly responsive support, ensuring smooth transitions. Its proactive communication often receives praise. Qualys supports diverse environments but could improve ease of setup, especially concerning hybrid cloud complexities. Both vendors maintain strong support reputations.

Pricing and ROI: Morphisec provides cost-effective solutions, showing tangible ROI with reduced incidents and simpler administration. Its straightforward pricing benefits smaller organizations with tight budgets. Qualys is seen as higher-priced with substantial value from its extensive asset management features, making it best suited for larger entities due to scalability and depth but potentially too costly for smaller clients.

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Categories and Ranking

Morphisec

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

57th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (49th), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (31st), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (61st), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (34th), Threat Deception Platforms (21st)

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset ...

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

10th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Patch Management (4th), Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) (3rd), Attack Surface Management (ASM) (2nd), Software Supply Chain Security (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Morphisec is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management is 1.4%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management	1.4%
Morphisec	0.5%
Other	98.1%

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Rick Schibler

VP of Information Technology at Kentucky Trailer

Offers in-memory protection at a lower price than competitors

Morphisec's in-memory protection is probably the most valuable feature because it stops malicious activity from occurring. If something tries to install or act as a sleeper agent, Morphisec will detect and stop it. Morphisec's Moving Target Defense is critical to hardening our attack surface. If it detects something, it indicates whether it's valid. That means you've got a breach requiring investigation. It detects anomalies but doesn't necessarily point to what caused them. You still need to do that work. The solution is reasonably easy to administer. They made some changes last year, adding a cloud-based monitoring solution that makes deploying and monitoring our endpoints easy.

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Arshad N. R.

Cyber Security Specialist at UBS Financial

Customized dashboards and quick deployment support comprehensive asset management

We use the True Risk Score for vulnerability prioritization, though we do not solely rely upon it since some assets may be decommissioned soon or not in use. From Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management, we primarily focus on internet-facing assets. We have created separate tasks for internet-facing assets and track the True Risk dashboard specifically for these assets. If the True Risk Score is higher for any internet-facing assets, then we take action accordingly. The True Risk Score is very helpful for prioritization. The initial setup was straightforward and easy. We needed to create customized tags, group them twice, and validate whether the operating system detection was true positive or false positive. We encountered some false positives, which required coordination with the IT team for verification. In six months, we had approximately 20-25 machines that needed verification on a weekly basis. We coordinated with the IT team to identify the exact operating system specifications.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"All the alerts are on the dashboard, which is quite simple and useful for us. You can easily check all the alerts that are being blocked or allowed, or whatever the action is. You can easily see that and you can take the necessary actions. You can add a PowerShell extension or any activities for blocking at your network level or for endpoints."

"Morphisec also provides full visibility into security events for Microsoft Defender and Morphisec in one dashboard... in the single pane of glass provided by Morphisec, it's all right there at your fingertips: easy to access and easy to understand. And if you choose to go down further to know everything from the process to the hash behind it, you can."

"It provides full visibility into security events and from both solutions in one dashboard. I'm not a big security guy, if I have a threat that looks like there's a problem, I will ask Morphisec to dissect it for me, and tell me what might be happening. Because it tends to be all hash codes, so I can tell what's going on. They've been pretty good with that."

"What's valuable is really the whole kit and caboodle of the Morphisec agent. What it does is genius, in a way, until the bad guys get wise to it. You set it up and then you watch the dashboard. There isn't really much tinkering."

"Since using Morphisec we have seen a downturn in attacks because Morphisec protects us versus Defenders and whatnot that are signature-based. I know we have not had any issues with ransomware or other zero-day attacks that we've seen with machines that, all of a sudden, have become before we instituted the product. Now the machine had to be re-imaged and there was a loss of data because something was on the machine. You couldn't really determine what was on the machine because nothing was picking it up. The products we were using weren't picking it up."

"The biggest feature is that it hides everything from your operating system that's running in-memory from anything to try to run against it. That's the most unique thing that's on the market. There's nothing else out there that's quite like that. That's a big selling point and why we went with it. It does exactly what the design does. If you can't find it, you can't execute against it."

"Morphisec provides full visibility into security events from Microsoft Defender and Morphisec in one dashboard. Defender and Morphisec are integrated. It's important because it lowers the total cost of maintenance on the engineer's time, more or less. So the administrative time is dramatically reduced in maintaining the product. This saves an engineer around four to five hours a week."

"We have seen it successfully block attacks that a traditional antivirus did not pick up."

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"Qualys CSAM is valuable for providing end-of-life and end-of-sale information. It gives me visibility into the number of products or hardware items that are end-of-life."

"The scanning results are pretty good, and some of the insights are quite valuable."

"Tags are very useful for us since we can tag virus applications in infrastructure types such as databases, operating systems, or web platforms."

"Authorized and unauthorized software visibility is the best feature for me. It helps me understand security controls on our network and where we lack visibility. With a single security tool, we are able to get an extensive list."

"We have a diverse organization with a robust infrastructure of more than 300,000 assets. By creating unauthorized lists and rules in the Qualys CSAM module, I can block certain software from being used in the organization."

"Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management offers valuable features such as continuous vendor support, rapid response times, dedicated vendor partnerships, and advanced technical capabilities for risk identification."

"It de-duplicates findings and helps you understand what the vulnerabilities from your external scans and your external attack surface management are and how they connect to the vulnerabilities on your internal scans."

"The end-of-life and end-of-service software and hardware are some of my favorite features."

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Cons

"The weakest point of this product is how difficult it is to understand the reasons for an alert. This is a problem because it is hard to determine whether an attack is real or not."

"It might be a bit much to ask, but we are now beginning to use Morphisec Scout, which provides vulnerability information. At this time, it's recognizing vulnerabilities and reporting them to us, but it's not necessarily resolving them. There's still a separate manual process to resolve those vulnerabilities, primarily through upgrades. We have to do that outside of Morphisec. If Morphisec could somehow have that capability built into it, that would be very effective."

"If anything, tech support might be their weakest link. The process of getting someone involved sometimes takes a little time. It seems to me that they should have all the data they need to let me know whether an alert is legitimate or not, but they tend to need a lot of information from me to get to the bottom of something. It usually takes a little longer than I would expect."

"From a company standpoint, a little more interaction with the customers throughout the year might be beneficial. I would like check-ins from the Morphisec account executives about any type of Morphisec news as well as a bit more interaction with customers throughout the year to know if anything new is coming out with Morphisec, e.g., what they are working on in regards to their development roadmap. We tend not to get that up until the time that we go for a yearly renewal. So, we end up talking to people from Morphisec once a year, but it is usually at renewal time."

"We sometimes have to depend on the support team to know what action we should take. If the solution for an alert can be built into the report that we are getting, it will save time, and the interaction with support would be less. At times, corrective action is required, but at times, we don't need to take any action. It would be good if we get to know in the report that a particular infection doesn't require any action. It will save us time and effort."

"We have only had four attacks in the last year, "attacks" being some benign PDF from a vendor that, for some reason, were triggered. There were no actual attacks. They were just four false positives, or something lowly like adware. There have been false positives with both the on-premises solution and the cloud solution."

"We have discovered some bugs in the new releases that they've had to fix, so I would like to see more testing and QA on their side before they release."

"Right now, it's just their auto-update feature. I know they are currently working on that. When they release a new version of the threat prevention platform, I do have to update that, rolling out to every computer. They have said, "From version 5, you would be able to do an auto-update." While this is very minor, that is the only thing that I would say needs to be upgraded. It would just make life a lot easier for other IT teams. However, I have simplified the process, so all I need to do is just download one file."

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"They should address the false positives generated in EASM. It is fetching assets that have Infosys as the keyword. They should fix that."

"One improvement that they can make in the EASM module is the scan frequency. After EASM is configured the first time, it allows you to do the complete configuration, but if you want to reconfigure it, it will not ask or provide any option for scan frequency. For that, you need to raise a case with Qualys and talk to the Qualys team."

"In our reporting, we faced a challenge syncing with cloud devices."

"Qualys could improve by enhancing its dynamic tagging and role-based access control features, and by refining its user interface for a more intuitive and efficient user experience."

"Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management is moderately good, while Rapid7 is slightly much better."

"The Qualys CAPS service requires further exploration and improvement, particularly in its handling of protocols and reactivity with MAC and IP addresses for CAP agents."

"The deployment is somewhat complicated and could be made more user-friendly for most users. It is currently not user-friendly for all users. It is good but can be improved. It is a new product, and they are working on it."

"Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management could be more cost-effective by offering a lower price point or integrating with existing VMDR features."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Price-wise, it's on the higher side. A traditional antivirus solution is cheaper, but in terms of security and manageability, its ROI is better than a traditional antivirus. I would recommend it to anybody evaluating or considering an antivirus solution. If your system gets compromised, the cost of ransom would be a lot more. This way, it saves a lot of cost."

"The pricing is definitely fair for what it does."

"Morphisec is reasonably priced because our parent company's other subsidiaries use different products like CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike is four or five times more expensive than Morphisec. The competitive pricing saves us money in our overall security stack."

"Our licensing is tied into our contract. Because we have a long-term contract, our pricing is a little bit lower. It is per year, so we don't get charged per endpoint, but we do have a cap. Our cap is 80 endpoints. If we were to go over 80, when we renewed our contract, which is not until three years are over. Then, they would reevaluate, and say, "Well, you have more than 80 devices active right now. This is going to be the price change." They know that we are installing and replacing computers, so the numbers will be all over the place depending on whether you archive or don't archive, which is the reason why we just have to keep up on that stuff."

"It is priced correctly for what it does. They end up doing a good deal of discounting, but I think it is priced appropriately."

"It is an annual subscription basis per device. For the devices that we have in scope right now, it is about $25,000 a year."

"Compared to their competitors, the price of Morphisec is not that high. You can easily deploy it on a large-scale or small-scale network."

"We are still using a separate tool. I know for our 600 or I think we're actually licensed for up to 700 users, it runs me 23 or $24,000 a year. When you're talking to that many users plus servers being protected, that's well worth the investment for that dollar amount."

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"The cost for Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management is high."

"The pricing for Qualys CSAM is nominal."

"It is cost-effective because, in a single tool, we are getting everything. All the solutions come in a single license or price."

"The pricing is fair. I would love to see the price come down a little bit, but we do get a lot of value out of it. We are squeezing every ounce of value we can out of the tool."

"Though the solution is considered expensive, if bundled with other services such as VMDR or cloud agents, its value would significantly increase. It is currently a bit costly, but with bundling, it could become attractive to more customers."

"The pricing is reasonable relative to the features provided, as it collects all module data and operates as a main, centralized inventory, making it a cost-effective solution."

"The pricing for Qualys Cybersecurity Asset Management is reasonable, with an annual subscription costing around $1,000 per year or a monthly subscription starting at approximately $72 per month, depending on the specific package and features included."

"Qualys offers excellent value for money."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	23

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Also Known As

Morphisec, Morphisec Moving Target Defense

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Overview

Morphisec delivers signatureless endpoint-specific protection, effectively blocking zero-day threats and ransomware without affecting performance, making it a preferred choice for enhancing security strategies.

Morphisec empowers users by providing comprehensive protection against advanced threats with its innovative signatureless and in-memory security features. Its seamless integration with Microsoft Defender ensures complete visibility and automatic threat blocking through a unified dashboard. The Moving Target Defense technology enhances deployment efficiency while its lightweight design maintains system performance. Despite some challenges in cloud deployment and feature updates, users find value in its ease of use and minimal administrative effort.

What are the key features of Morphisec?

Signatureless Protection: Blocks threats without relying on signatures, ensuring up-to-date defense.
In-Memory Protection: Prevents attacks targeting system memory to safeguard endpoints.
Zero-Day Threat Blocking: Offers proactive defense against undiscovered threats.
Unified Dashboard: Provides comprehensive security event visibility and integration with Microsoft Defender.
Lightweight Design: Ensures smooth operation without system performance issues.

What benefits can users expect when evaluating Morphisec?

Enhanced Security: Strengthens defense layers against ransomware and memory attacks.
Seamless Integration: Works alongside existing antivirus solutions like Microsoft Defender.
Minimal Administration: Requires low maintenance due to its set-and-forget nature.
Automatic Updates: Keeps protection current without manual intervention.
Broad Coverage: Suitable for desktops, servers, and cloud platforms.

In industries with high security needs, deploying Morphisec adds a robust defense against advanced threats. Its compatibility with antivirus solutions and cloud platforms makes it adaptable to diverse environments, ensuring effective threat mitigation and detection.

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Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management provides key features including asset inventory management, end-of-life tracking, dynamic tagging, and integration with CMDB, offering extensive visibility and support for proactive threat response.

Qualys offers comprehensive visibility across hardware and software assets, aiding in tracking unauthorized applications and facilitating automated vulnerability remediation. Its user-friendly interface and dynamic risk scoring enhance security posture management. Users leverage it for vulnerability management and compliance, benefiting from real-time risk identification and efficient operations in cloud and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management?

Asset Inventory Management: Provides detailed visibility over hardware and software assets.
End-of-Life Tracking: Helps identify technical debt by pinpointing outdated hardware and software.
Dynamic Tagging: Allows flexible classification and categorization of assets.
Real-Time Risk Identification: Detects risks as they arise, enhancing threat response capabilities.
CMDB Integration: Streamlines data integration for comprehensive asset insights.

What benefits should users look for in Qualys reviews?

Improved Security Posture: Enables proactive threat management and streamlined operations.
Efficient Remediation: Automates vulnerability management and patch deployment.
User-Friendly Operations: Simplifies cybersecurity operations with an intuitive interface.
Comprehensive Asset Visibility: Offers unparalleled insight into organizational assets.
Scalable Solutions: Facilitates asset tracking across cloud and on-premises environments.

Cybersecurity teams in various industries, such as financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing, utilize Qualys to manage technical debt through end-of-life tracking and facilitate robust patch management. It supports compliance and visibility initiatives, essential for maintaining data integrity and operational security in dynamic environments.

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Lenovo/Motorola, TruGreen, Covenant Health, Citizens Medical Center

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