Users have noted that Qualys VMDR offers strong automated vulnerability scanning capabilities, comprehensive reporting features, and integration capabilities with other security tools, although there are concerns about the outdated user interface and system performance. On the other hand, Prisma Cloud is praised for its competitive pricing, ease of deployment, and comprehensive security capabilities.
The summary above is based on 142 interviews we conducted recently with Qualys VMDR and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The CSPM and CWPP functionalities are pretty good."
"Prisma Cloud's inventory reporting is pretty good."
"The first aspect that is important is the fact that Prisma Cloud is cloud-agnostic. It's actually available for the five top cloud providers: AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle, and Alibaba Cloud. The second aspect is the fact that we can write our own rules to try to detect misconfigurations in those environments."
"One of the most valuable features is the compliance of RedLock, which we are using for any issues with security. It flags them and that's the primary objective of that feature."
"We found it to be easy and flexible. We could easily configure it for our needs, and we could spread the Prisma Cloud platform to 16 countries without encountering any kind of problem."
"Visibility is a key feature. Integration with other technologies across the board, whether they are Palo Alto technologies, Windows technologies, or cloud technologies, is probably the biggest thing."
"Its ease of integration is valuable because we need to get the solution out of the door quickly, so speed and ease matter."
"Prisma Cloud also provides the visibility and control you need, regardless of how complex or distributed your cloud environments become. It helps to simplify that complexity. Now we know what the best practices are, and if something is missing we know."
"Intuitive and easy to use."
"This solution gives us insight into our environment and improves our security. It helps us to maintain a good patching system whereby we know that XYZ is vulnerable within the system."
"Technical support is great and we've never really had a problem."
"It gives a very good overview of the inventory assessment process, and it can be accessed across our company because it's a global tool."
"Provides great functionality."
"Detects new hosts along with vulnerabilities."
"Qualys VM is very stable."
"Great web application security for scanning."
"The innovation side of the solution could be more efficient and more detailed."
"More documentation with real-world use cases would be helpful."
"The visibility on the SIEM needs to be streamlined so we can get the data without any issues."
"It can be too expensive for small companies."
"I have some challenges customizing and personalizing some of the capabilities in the CSPM in terms of new policies and services. We have to reconfigure and rebuild the CSPM."
"They need to make the settings more flexible to fit our internal policies about data. We didn't want developers to see some data, but we wanted them to have access to the console because it was going to help them... It was a pain to have to set up the access to some languages and some data."
"The UI could use some improvement; we usually find the information we're looking for, but what fields can be clicked on and what workflow to follow to get the required information is not always evident. Sometimes we're all over the place, clicking around to drill in and uncover the alert and investigation details we're looking for."
"We identified two things that we felt would be great to have, but they are under NDA. So, I can't disclose them. Other than those two things, we identified a generic bug in the secret key management service on AWS that needs to be fixed. We reported it to them, and we want them to fix it."
"The disadvantage of working with Qualys is that the graphical interface is quite outdated."
"There seems to be a lack of easy onboarding into Qualys."
"When tested on Zero day, there were errors."
"Qualys should improve their customer experience. They need to improve the tech support experience and the turnaround time."
"The tool needs to improve the adding assets and report generation features. I would like to see the policy scan of offline appliances in the product's future releases."
"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."
"If anything, I would like to see the user interface modernized a bit more."
"I would like to see this solution simplified to work more easily in a multi-cloud environment."
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Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 1st in Container Security with 82 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 11th in Container Security with 77 reviews. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The dashboard is very user-friendly and can be used to generate custom RQL based on user requirements". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and AWS WAF, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security. See our Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Qualys VMDR report.
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