Qualys TotalCloud

I have approximately three to four years of experience working with Qualys TotalCloud .

I have been using Qualys TotalCloud  while working with EY, Ernst & Young, where I utilize cloud tools for Qualys, employing two types of tools: one for policy and compliance, for security and compliance audits, and another for security audits such as vulnerability assessments and risk assessments. Based on that tool, it is very easy to go through the inventory and easily deploy the compliance policies as needed while also receiving comprehensive assessment scores.

I use Qualys TotalCloud primarily for compliance and cloud security, and I am also getting certified from Qualys in both compliance auditing and vulnerability management, making me a certified specialist for Qualys.

In Qualys TotalCloud, everything is in a single platform and as a unified CNAP application, it combines CSPM, CWPM, CIEMs, and workload securities with a lightweight agent that covers everything, including cloud resources, configuration, misconfigurations, and shadow assets, allowing us to work around AWS , Azure , and GCP platforms while generating compliance reports and providing end-users with easy access to dashboard audit reports and executive views.

To eliminate cyber risk, I think the best method in Qualys TotalCloud is correlating vulnerability exposure and configuration with identity instead of just CVs, making it the perfect option for use within Qualys TotalCloud. If someone were to ask me to review Qualys TotalCloud, I would summarize it as an end-to-end solution for cloud security with visibility and governance-grade controls without needing to manage multiple disconnected tools. In comparison to other tools such as Prisma, Wiz , and Defender, Qualys TotalCloud helps unify vulnerability and threat assessment in IaaS  and SaaS environments because it has an intuitive web interface that is simple enough for anyone to learn with just a few hours of preliminary training, allowing users to easily deploy initial assets and policy configurations as needed while generating customized reports.

I have compared Qualys TotalCloud with other vendors such as Prisma, Wiz , and Defender, noting that despite some limitations in those other tools, Qualys TotalCloud performs exceptionally well across various compliance requirements, offering a simple interface for customizing reports while meeting auditors' needs with regulatory benchmarks, including CIS, NIST, ISO, and PCI.

Qualys TotalCloud provides a single unified dashboard for all types of reports, executive views, and dashboards, allowing you to easily access key summaries and recommendations.

I think Qualys TotalCloud needs to improve its handling of zero-day vulnerabilities and supply chain management because modern ransomware attacks not only target prime critical infrastructures but also the supply chain system. If Qualys TotalCloud can solely assess risks based on initially added assets, there may be vulnerabilities within supporting firms that go undetected.

For stability, I would rate Qualys TotalCloud a nine out of ten. While there may be occasional disruptions due to internet connectivity issues, the application supports both offline and online functionality, maintaining operability even under hybrid working conditions.

Qualys TotalCloud is highly scalable, rated at ten out of ten, facilitating easy scale-up or scale-down based on audit and compliance needs.

I rate the technical support from Qualys TotalCloud a perfect ten out of ten because whenever we log incidents, all service level agreements are met within half an hour, with prompt provision of root cause analyses by the support teams.

I have limited feedback on how Qualys TotalCloud helps my cloud security posture management, but it works well with misconfiguration detections and provides deep mapping with CIS, NIST, ISO frameworks, PCI compliance, and regulatory benchmarks.

In terms of pricing, compared with the top market leaders in Gartner's reports, I find Qualys TotalCloud to have a reasonable standard rate, which is not too hard to access. They have also introduced use case basis rates that allow auditors to purchase specific instances of the cloud service, leading to a flexible pay-per-usage model.

Overall, deploying Qualys TotalCloud across all cloud platforms is very easy.

We handle clients of all sizes, including direct work with government entities, and are currently deployed in various states within government and public sectors.

Vendor maintenance, such as patches for Qualys TotalCloud, is conducted promptly. I observe that if a zero-day vulnerability emerges, the vendor deploys patches as per market recommendations without significant delays.

While we do not work directly with Qualys in our organization, I utilize it during audit activities at client premises alongside various other tools such as Metasploit , Rapid7, and others that I prefer not to disclose. We can deploy Qualys TotalCloud where needed, particularly for presentation layers, while other tools handle deeper network layer security requirements.

I recommend Qualys TotalCloud, having written various articles on it. I suggest potential users align their use cases with its capabilities before deciding, as a proof of concept could be beneficial.

I have given this review an overall rating of eight out of ten.

I use Qualys TotalCloud  for vulnerability as a service, vulnerability management as a service. I use it to check my devices to see if they're free from vulnerabilities, to send updates, and also as a form of inventory for the devices.

I can use Qualys TotalCloud  to uninstall unwanted devices, which is great. I can also use the feature of seeing what my vulnerabilities are, a form of inventory, and knowing the criticals and the less criticals. Once you have your vulnerabilities fixed and your patches pushed out using Qualys TotalCloud, then you are able to eliminate threats and cyber risk. Qualys TotalCloud is also used to provide unified vulnerability and threat assessment across both IaaS  and SaaS.

I sometimes have difficulty detecting or uninstalling certain versions of applications, which I have to do manually. More advanced features or AI could improve this process. A single prioritized view of risk is also lacking, which could enhance decision-making. Additionally, it could use improvements to perform actions without requiring manual intervention.

I have been using Qualys TotalCloud for one year now.

It is stable. I have not had any issues with it.

I rate the documentation they provide or the knowledge base between five to seven.

I have done POC with Okta and CrowdStrike. Qualys TotalCloud focuses on vulnerability management and security features. Okta focuses more on identities and IAMs. CrowdStrike is more of intrusion detection and assessment.

The application was quite easy to deploy in over 3,000 applications using Qualys TotalCloud.

It's just me using Qualys TotalCloud. The users don't really have anything to do with it. I do all the admin side from my end.

The return on investment I've seen in the past year with Qualys TotalCloud is quite significant, around 10% to 20%.

Qualys TotalCloud's pricing is fair. It is not expensive and is affordable.

Cloud security posture changes with time when using Qualys TotalCloud. It depends on how early you detect threats and fix them. Qualys TotalCloud doesn't provide a single prioritized view of risk. The product does what it says it's going to do, so I recommend it. I rate Qualys TotalCloud six out of ten.

We are managing AWS , Azure , as well as Google Cloud  services in the cloud. We have different applications using those. We were previously checking the configurations manually. Qualys is helping us identify vulnerabilities related to the cloud. It identifies if something is misconfigured or if any AWS  key or private key is exposed. We receive this information from Qualys TotalCloud.

Qualys TotalCloud provides written explanations to help guide the remediation paths and eliminate cyber risk. We are using TruRisk for the remediations. The TruRisk shows anything critical, and we can then focus on that. We also assess manually whether an asset is a critical target or not.

Qualys TotalCloud provides a single, prioritized view of risk. We are using CIS-CAT standards to harden our clouds, such as AWS, Google Cloud , and Azure. We are able to analyze the scans and identify which policies have failed and how we can remediate them. We can customize policies as per our organization's requirements. That is very helpful for us.

With the TruRisk Insights feature, security has significantly improved. In six months of using it, we see that everything is under control. We've solved many problems related to asset management, cloud configuration, and the new asset identification. If an application team has onboarded any cloud asset, we can see that. We have that information now.

The best features in Qualys TotalCloud  include the total asset management of the cloud environment. It is very easy to export the report and see the vulnerabilities related to the cloud specifically. We can segregate that particular report and give it to the appropriate team for remediation. Before, we were doing it manually. From the whole sheet, we had to find out the cloud vulnerabilities and check manually if it was a cloud vulnerability.

It is very helpful for us to generate reports related to the cloud vulnerabilities.

The onboarding process is a bit difficult. In the initial phase, it is very difficult to understand the features, what the dashboard contains, and what criteria they are using. This information is very difficult to understand as a newcomer to Qualys TotalCloud. Once we learn it, it becomes easy. It is hard for a complete newcomer.

I have been using Qualys TotalCloud for the last six months. There was one Qualys conference, and after that, we purchased it. Our management people were there, and they saw the usage of Qualys TotalCloud and how we could secure the cloud environment. They looked at how we can identify cloud vulnerabilities. That's why they decided to use this product.

Qualys TotalCloud is stable. We didn't experience any lag or slowness issues. They inform us beforehand that maintenance is scheduled, and there might be some slowness. Apart from that, there are no issues. I would rate it a ten out of ten for stability.

For scalability, I would rate it a ten out of ten. It does not matter how many assets we have; it's very manageable. It's centralized.

Our environment consists of multiple clouds and multiple locations. We have only three members using Qualys TotalCloud. The team is narrow. After six months, more users will come since they're having different customizations available.

The support from Qualys TotalCloud is a ten out of ten. The support team is very helpful in every aspect. If we get any issues, we can directly communicate with them. They have been helpful from day one. They have been solving issues efficiently.

Before using Qualys TotalCloud, we were using the cloud-native tools. For example, for AWS, we used the AWS console. We were doing the misconfiguration identification manually, checking everything manually. If any new policies or vulnerabilities came, we needed to check those manually. They provided some advice, and we relied on them, but we don't need to depend on them anymore. Qualys TotalCloud is identifying everything, and we take action based on that.

The deployment was handled by a third-party vendor. They completed it within one week because they had expertise in that. Afterward, they did a knowledge transfer with us about how we can deploy and the process involved.

Qualys TotalCloud does not require any maintenance as it is based on the cloud.

It isn't cheap, but it's reasonable. It helps us to manage things with very few resources.

Currently, AI access is restricted in our environment. We are testing the outcomes and possibilities. Within two months, we may start using GenAI.

I would definitely recommend Qualys TotalCloud to other users. If someone is looking for a centralized management tool while using different cloud platforms, Qualys TotalCloud is very helpful. It helps manage and identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. It helps with asset management. It helps understand how many AWS or Google Cloud instances are in the environments.

I would rate Qualys TotalCloud a ten out of ten.

Qualys TotalCloud is very helpful for me for auditing purposes.

Qualys TotalCloud has helped us with centralized cloud management. We have Azure and AWS machines on the cloud. Previously, we were facing a lot of issues with vulnerability remediation. With Qualys TotalCloud, we can see vulnerabilities and misconfigurations and provide them to the remediation team with a timeline for fixing. Previously, we were unable to do that. It has helped us identify and plan the timeframe for the updates.

Qualys TotalCloud helped us show the attack vectors and their criticality to the client. The client could take immediate action. Previously, the client could not understand how critical an issue was. This automation is beneficial for us compared to the manual process.

Qualys TotalCloud has made asset management easy. We have many cloud resources. Previously, the cloud team was not aware of all of the resources. It is pretty easy now because we have visibility into the assets hosted on the cloud.

Qualys TotalCloud provides a single, prioritized view of risk. It reduces the work needed to combine multiple sources to prioritize risk. We can see them categorized based on the criticality which saves time. Previously, it would take us a week to manage, investigate the issues, and configure three or four cloud resources. We can now do that in two days. Once we have the report, we need to analyze it and showcase it to the client. They can then start the remediation.

Over three months, we have seen 20% to 25% improvement in the security posture. It identified about 70% misconfigurations which have now been reduced to 20%.

With TotalCloud, we can scan through the API. If we are not able to deploy cloud agents on the machine, we can use the API. This feature is quite nice.

It is already perfect, but they can bring some newer dashboards and customization options for the dashboard. It would be great to be able to include on-prem assets on the dashboard. For example, when I am hosting my own server to the public, I should be able to segregate the dashboard to monitor that particular server.

I have been using Qualys TotalCloud for about three months.

Initially, we faced some performance issues. After implementing it, I noticed it took a lot of time to load. However, it was not an issue from the Qualys side, so we waited on our end. After logging out and in again, the issue was resolved, and it became perfectly smooth. The initial gathering of data seems to have contributed to the delay.

We have not scaled it yet.

We did not need any support so far because TotalCloud has been working well. However, in the future, I might require support, and I expect good assistance from the company. It should not take much time.

This is the first time I am working on a cloud security platform like this.

We did not encounter complexity because TotalCloud supports AWS . We do not need much customization or configuration either. The options for configuration are user-friendly. It took around two weeks to complete, with some management approval delays contributing to the timeframe.

Its maintenance is easy. We do not need more utilization or resources. We currently have 7 applications, and we will be onboarding 17 applications soon.

There are five members in our team. Three of us were deploying and configuring the cloud setup, while others managed tasks, analyzed errors, and showcased the progress to the client.

Its price seems higher compared to other tools, but it is worth it. If they could adjust the pricing and make it comparable with other tools, that would be great.

We evaluated WIZ cloud security. It has a limited number of dashboards, and customization is not possible. We have to rely on the data showcased on the dashboards, whereas Qualys TotalCloud shows us a lot of parameters and data which makes it easier to show information to the management.

I would definitely recommend it because it is easy to handle any cloud resources. Asset management is possible, and we can effectively do an audit of cloud resources.

I would rate Qualys TotalCloud a ten out of ten.