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Runecast vs Vicarius vRx comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Runecast
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
36th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
GRC (16th), Container Security (27th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (22nd), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (25th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (19th), Compliance Management (10th)
Vicarius vRx
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
15th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Patch Management (9th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (5th)
 

Featured Reviews

Burak AKCAGUN - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps with risk assessments for containers, assessing security, and ensuring container compliance
I rate the overall product a nine out of ten. Customers can conveniently view all companies in a single dashboard if they have different companies. This feature eliminates the need for different solutions and separate installations. Moreover, the solution extends beyond servers, encompassing various platforms such as VMware and Kubernetes. Additionally, end-users can install the solution from their client's perspective.
Navdeep Saini - PeerSpot reviewer
It protects applications against zero-day threats
Vicarius vRx helps consolidate multiple tools for patching and remediation. It's critical that Vicarius combines vulnerability discovery, prioritization, and remediation in a single platform. We selected it for that reason. It protects us well. We use other tools, but we always go back to Vicarius to ensure everything's in line. It reduces the time needed to detect and remediate threats by about an hour. I would estimate it saves us about 20 hours each month that we can allocate to something else.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Runecast is a good partner for VMware. Once we have installed it, we can see all the problems and issues. It also has VMware knowledge-based articles."
"While other vulnerability scanners overwhelm us with a huge list of problems after a scan, Vicarius vRx goes beyond that."
"Vicarius vRx has reduced 70% of the time we spend on patching."
"The most valuable features of vRx would be virtualized patching and severity prioritization."
"Patchless Protection helps protect us from vulnerabilities that may not yet have patches from the manufacturer. I've used it for a piece of software that we don't have a patch for. It monitors that software, analyzes it, and makes sure nothing nefarious is going on when it's vulnerable."
"The prioritization of the vulnerabilities and patches that we must apply immediately is valuable. The automation of the tasks allows us to spend less time in that area."
"I like that vRx is cloud-based. It protects the health of applications against zero-day threats."
"The system prioritizes vulnerabilities, identifying high, medium, and low risks, allowing us to focus on high-risk applications. It allows us to focus on high-risk applications and do the updates."
"The strongest advantage of Vicarius vRx is its intuitive interface, which requires minimal explanation or support, even for first-time users."
 

Cons

"The product lacks network assessment capabilities. We cannot view our network assets or scan switches, routers, or IPs for vulnerabilities and issues."
"Vicarius vRx's application management capabilities could be improved by allowing users to manage and uninstall applications directly within the GUI, eliminating the need for scripting and streamlining the process."
"I don't like logging in. The portal could be a better process. You could use some third-party push notification rather than sending an email, waiting for the link to generate, and clicking on it. That would be good. It's somewhat frustrating when I need to log in."
"In the past, Vicarius vRx was cheap, but now they have adjusted their pricing policy, resulting in higher renewal costs."
"There can be more scripting capability and more filtering capability. We should be able to filter more granular details in the operating system such as whether it is a service, application, executable, or something like that. For the most part, we are satisfied with what we are able to filter."
"It would be beneficial if Vicarius vRx could implement smart tagging or suggest tags to create a group for these development tools, signifying that they should not be regularly updated."
"We had an outage due to a change Vicarius performed in their system."
"The patchless protection feature is currently difficult to understand and could be made more user-friendly."
"Unlike previous vulnerability management systems that relied on network scanning appliances to discover and assess endpoints, Vicarius' agent-based approach is less effective for devices like switches, routers, and printers where agent installation is impractical."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Runecast's pricing is cheaper than that of its competitors."
"Vicarius vRx is priced competitively within the market."
"The pricing was very reasonable and fair compared to other products. I liked that there was no tiered system. One price gave access to everything, which is nice. It is not something you get too often with enterprise IT."
"In the past, Vicarius vRx was cheap, but now they have adjusted their pricing policy, resulting in higher renewal costs. We have had some conversations with them regarding a smaller jump in the renewal cost."
"The pricing is fair."
"From a pricing perspective, Vicarius was cheaper compared to other competitors."
"Vicarius vRx is reasonably priced."
"Vicarius vRx offers a competitive price point for the features it provides."
"Vicarius' pricing was reasonable compared to the other systems we evaluated."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
16%
Media Company
15%
Non Profit
13%
Insurance Company
9%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Runecast?
Runecast is a good partner for VMware. Once we have installed it, we can see all the problems and issues. It also has VMware knowledge-based articles.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Runecast?
Runecast's pricing is cheaper than that of its competitors.
What needs improvement with Runecast?
The product lacks network assessment capabilities. We cannot view our network assets or scan switches, routers, or IPs for vulnerabilities and issues.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vicarius vRx?
Vicarius vRx is priced competitively within the market.
What needs improvement with Vicarius vRx?
I have several applications on developers' assets and computers that cannot be updated due to potential conflicts with their current development tools. It would be beneficial if Vicarius vRx could ...
What is your primary use case for Vicarius vRx?
We use Vicarius vRx for the visibility of all the assets in one place on the patch management status. The risk we're trying to mitigate is the need to patch a critical vulnerability across numerous...
 

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Sample Customers

Our customers tell us regularly how Runecast benefits CIOs, CISOs, and both Security and Operations teams across verticals with a proactive approach that results in major time and cost savings, increased uptime and security standards complianceSuccess Highlight 75-85% troubleshooting time savings – Kiel Municipal Hospital90% time savings on reactive troubleshooting – Near East Bank90% time savings in upgrade planning– FLEXdata80% reduction in monthly incidents and issues – University of St Andrews78,000 EUR/year minimum annual cost savings – Notino100s of hours saved on security compliance with remediation scripts alone – Kiel Municipal Hospital75% time saved on troubleshooting and root cause analysis – de Volksbank
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