Qualys VMDR and Quest KACE Asset Management Appliance compete in asset management and vulnerability detection. While users appreciate Qualys VMDR for its ease of use and robust features, Quest KACE stands out with its comprehensive asset management capabilities.
Features: Qualys VMDR has powerful vulnerability management and detection features, automation capabilities, and effective security insights. Quest KACE is valued for its wide-ranging asset management functions, easily configurable workflow, and detailed reporting tools.
Room for Improvement: Qualys VMDR needs better integration with other tools, more user-friendly navigation, and enhanced reporting capabilities. Quest KACE requires improved customer support responsiveness, better patch management, and a more intuitive user interface.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Qualys VMDR is known for straightforward deployment and comprehensive customer support. Quest KACE requires more effort to deploy but benefits from detailed documentation.
Pricing and ROI: Qualys VMDR offers good value with notable ROI due to effective vulnerability management. Quest KACE has a higher initial setup cost but is worth the investment for its extensive feature set and long-term benefits in asset management.
The technical support provided by Qualys is pretty good.
The response time takes a while.
It does not automate patching unless the patch management module is purchased separately.
The response time of technical support takes a while.
Scalability depends on the license and the number of assets being monitored.
I would rate the pricing between seven to eight out of ten.
Qualys VMDR offers a one-stop solution for monitoring and reporting.
I like the automated report generation and vulnerability report generation.
Vulnerability Management, Detection, and Response (VMDR) is a cornerstone product of the Qualys TruRisk Platform and a global leader in the enterprise-grade vulnerability management (VM) vendor space. With VMDR, enterprises are empowered with visibility and insight into cyber risk exposure - making it easy to prioritize vulnerabilities, assets, or groups of assets based on business risk. Security teams can take action to mitigate risk, helping the business measure their actual risk exposure over time.
Qualys VMDR offers an all-inclusive risk-based vulnerability management solution to prioritize vulnerabilities and assets based on risk and business criticality. VMDR seamlessly integrates with configuration management databases (CMDB), Qualys Patch Management, Custom Assessment and Remediation (CAR), Qualys TotalCloud and other Qualys and non-Qualys solutions to facilitate vulnerability detection and remediation across the entire enterprise.
With VMDR, users are empowered with actionable risk insights that translate vulnerabilities and exploits into optimized remediation actions based on business impact. Qualys customers can now aggregate and orchestrate data from the Qualys Threat Library, 25+ threat intelligence feeds, and third-party security and IT solutions, empowering organizations to measure, communicate, and eliminate risk across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
The KACE Asset Management Appliance provides comprehensive hardware and software inventory and asset management across a variety of operating systems — Windows®, Mac®, Linux®, UNIX® and Chrome OS™, plus network-connected non-computing devices — through the entire IT asset lifecycle, giving you and your team more time to focus on IT innovation. Fast to implement and easy to use, this tool discovers all hardware and software on your network, and provides ongoing IT inventory management, IT asset management (ITAM) and software asset management (SAM).
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