Cisco Vulnerability Management vs. Qualys VMDR

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Vulnerability Management
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM by Kenna Security, which was acquired by Cisco in June of 2021), is a vulnerability management platform featuring real-time cyber-risk analysis and predictive modeling based on intelligence feeds and global attack telemetries to provide accurate, reliable risk prioritization and protection.N/A
Qualys VMDR
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Qualys VMDR 2.0 with TruRisk gives enterprises visibility and insight into cyber risk exposure with the goal of 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 its true risk, and track risk reduction over time.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Cisco Vulnerability ManagementQualys VMDR
Threat Intelligence
Comparison of Threat Intelligence features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Vulnerability Management
10.0
Ratings
23% above category average
Qualys VMDR
8.7
Ratings
9% above category average
Threat Recognition10.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Vulnerability Classification10.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Automated Alerts and Reporting10.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Threat Analysis10.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Threat Intelligence Reporting10.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Automated Threat Identification10.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Network Analytics00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Vulnerability Management Tools
Comparison of Vulnerability Management Tools features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Vulnerability Management
10.0
Ratings
21% above category average
Qualys VMDR
8.8
Ratings
8% above category average
IT Asset Realization10.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Configuration Monitoring10.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Vulnerability Intelligence10.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Authentication00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Web Scanning00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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8.7
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Usability
10.0
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Support Rating
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10.0
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User Testimonials
Cisco Vulnerability ManagementQualys VMDR
Likelihood to Recommend
For user end devices this product has worked great for us. We have been able to find vulnerabilities/risks with certain software in bulk on devices and implement fixes for them very quickly. CVM has also provided us visabity on all our devices that we never had before and we can close gaps security wise a lot faster knowing now where problems are at
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Qualys VMDR supports both remote scanning and as well as agent based scanning. With a complex infrastructure with over 2 million devices and 100s getting added and removed on daily basis makes the operations challenging. Qualys VMDR has a great feature to do discovery scan to detect active devices on the network and perform vulnerability scans on those assets. Authentication is also easy to setup and use.
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Pros
  • Vulnerability tracking
  • Risk Meter reporting to pinpoint specific systems or vulnerabilities
  • Provides vulnerability scores to see what is high / medium / low urgency
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  • Qualys VMDR automates the remediation process for risks without code.
  • Scans and detects all of our assets whether they are IT or IOT
  • Analyzes our environment for misconfigurations and measures risk against industry benchmarks
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Cons
  • Faster system scan times in background
  • more accurate vulnerability remediation links
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  • Qualys VMDR can definitely improve on its reporting of assets as we have caught devices not captured in the Qualys VMDR scans.
  • We would like to see an improvement on the dashboard interface as it is faulty sometimes.
  • Qualys VMDR should focus on more competitive pricing as it is very expensive.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Next to Veeam (which is a tremendous product for backup/DR) this is the best service/software I have used in the past three decades. Should be called the Swiss Army Knife of security.
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Usability
CVM provides a very easy to understand and use interfaces. Dashboards and reporting are compiled nicely when risk meters are created. After initial setup of software cisco onboarding teams do an amazing job going over all areas of this software to provide best overall usability of the product. Against other tools setup and usability is at a higher standard
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infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities
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Reliability and Availability
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Always available with the exception on maint windows
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Performance
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Once in a while it would be slow -
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Support Rating
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This is iron but I am giving it 5 star and I can give more If I can do because they are best in support. So once you own this product they will assign a dedicated support for you and when you are under the weather with anything just connect them with anything call, ping or ticket they will come like Genie.
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Implementation Rating
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Not really - the integrations via connectors is not heavy lifting. Any complexity has to do with a service that requires more steps (i.e. AWS/GCP)
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Alternatives Considered
We run a flavor of multiple products and CVM enhances/complements those tools by pinpointing where the vulnerabilities are at on our network. Intune and Automox being products CVM works well with when its time to patch affected systems. Tenable we used prior to CVM and its product was too complex and clunky and always had issues with asset duplication. CVM simplified vulnerability scanning and made it a lot easier to manage compared to Tenable
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Qualys VMDR was selected against competitors because of the depth of insight the platform provides. When stacked against other competitors, platforms like Syxsense couldn't produce the same level on insight and reporting like how Qualys VMDR does. Qualys VMDR also does a great job at gathering information about the latest security definitions and using those to analyze our environment to alert of any vulnerabilities. Something that Syxsense couldn't.
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Scalability
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Outside some pretty arcane apps or OS this is painless. The problem - and self-inflicted - is that older stuff is not supported.
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Return on Investment
  • We have lowered our companies risk score from 850 to 660 in less than 6 months.
  • We have mitigated over 120,000 Vulnerabilities on our network since using CVM.
  • We have been able to streamline/prioritize patch management based off scans CVM provides from our assets.
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  • Cut down on manual efforts to investigate or remediate vulnerabilities, which can be a big driver of ROI
  • Avoidance of potential incidents with upfront risk mitigation
  • Patching efficiency gains
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