Mandiant Advantage Attack Surface Management vs. Qualys VMDR

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Mandiant Advantage Attack Surface Management
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Since 2004, Mandiant has been a partner to security-conscious organizations. Mandiant’s approach helps organizations develop more effective and efficient cyber security programs and instills confidence in their readiness to defend against and respond to cyber threats.N/A
Qualys VMDR
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
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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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Mandiant Advantage Attack Surface Management
Chose Mandiant Advantage Attack Surface Management
I decided to go with Mandiant Advantage Attack Surface Management because it offers a range of features performs excellently and is easy to use. What I really appreciate about Mandiant is their commitment, to innovation and their proven track record, in ensuring security.
Qualys VMDR
Chose Qualys VMDR
Breadth of services, Overall cost and Strong services expertise
Chose Qualys VMDR
Qualys is quite user friendly and gives more easy information related to asset and risk an asset possess. Plus high quality of support as well as ease of use. Qualys is single suite for multiple task for your organization like VMDR rather than using multiple tools for different …
Chose Qualys VMDR
It is a very similar tool but Qualys VMDR is much better when it comes to reporting and solutions provided. Asset management is really good in Qualys VMDR. Qualys VMDR support is really quick , you can get a TPM if you run into any issues. Qualys VMDR has wide variety of …
Chose Qualys VMDR
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 …
Chose Qualys VMDR
You can widgets galore from Qualys VMDR whereas with the others noted it's really vuln scanning.
Features
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Threat Intelligence
Comparison of Threat Intelligence features of Product A and Product B
Mandiant Advantage Attack Surface Management
7.7
Ratings
3% below category average
Qualys VMDR
8.7
Ratings
9% above category average
Network Analytics8.20 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Threat Recognition7.30 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Vulnerability Classification7.30 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Automated Alerts and Reporting8.20 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Threat Analysis8.20 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Threat Intelligence Reporting6.40 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Automated Threat Identification8.20 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Vulnerability Management Tools
Comparison of Vulnerability Management Tools features of Product A and Product B
Mandiant Advantage Attack Surface Management
7.6
Ratings
6% below category average
Qualys VMDR
8.8
Ratings
8% above category average
IT Asset Realization8.20 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Authentication7.30 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Configuration Monitoring8.20 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Web Scanning6.40 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Vulnerability Intelligence8.20 Ratings9.30 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
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8.7
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Support Rating
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Many companies that have an presence can benefit from using Mandiant ASM to identify and manage their internet facing assets, like web servers, email servers and DNS servers. This helps reduce the risk of cyberattacks targeting these assets.However smaller organizations with exposure might not always need the extensive attack surface monitoring provided by Mandiant ASM. For example a small company with one website may not require much monitoring, as a larger corporation.
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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
  • Mandiant ASM combines sources of information such, as assets through the internet cloud resources and suppliers from third parties. This comprehensive approach provides organizations with an understanding of their external attack surface.
  • With scanning Mandiant ASM identifies threats and vulnerabilities present on the external attack surface and promptly notifies users. Whenever a new threat or vulnerability is detected an alert is generated to empower enterprises to take action in mitigating the risks.
  • Mandiant ASM assesses risks based on their likelihood of exploitation impact on organizations and severity. This prioritization enables organizations to focus their efforts, on addressing the risks effectively.
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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
  • To enhance user experience it would be beneficial to make the interface more user friendly and easier to navigate. This can be achieved by simplifying the layout offering help when needed and utilizing terminology that's easily understandable.
  • Additionally incorporating reporting features that are customizable will empower users to generate reports tailored to their individual requirements.
  • In order to enhance the solutions efficiency optimizing the code and implementing data structures would prove valuable.
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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
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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
I decided to go with Mandiant Advantage Attack Surface Management because it offers a range of features performs excellently and is easy to use. What I really appreciate about Mandiant is their commitment, to innovation and their proven track record, in ensuring security.
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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
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  • Automation plays a role in saving time by streamlining operations related to attack surface management. These include automated asset discovery, vulnerability scanning and continuous monitoring of threat intelligence. As a result security teams can allocate their efforts towards projects such as security planning and incident response.
  • ASM provides a view of the external attack surface, for businesses encompassing internet facing assets, cloud resources and third party vendors. This enhances the understanding of assets enabling organizations to identify and prioritize risks effectively and make decisions on security investments
  • One notable advantage is cost savings. By eliminating the need to purchase and maintain security tools ASM becomes a solution for enterprises. It can replace products, like asset discovery tools, vulnerability management tools and threat intelligence feeds with its capabilities.
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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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