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Unified platform vs siloed modules + high complexity

Qualys offers a collection of different modules that together provide (some) of the functionality that Mondoo provides from a single platform. Mondoo saves you having to switch consoles and manually correlate data to get a centralized risk view across your entire IT environment and SDLC - without having to pay for extra modules. And you’ll be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to deploy Mondoo in your environment with our agent-based and agentless solutions.

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Why choose Mondoo over Qualys?

You should choose Mondoo if:

  1. You prefer a unified platform instead of siloed consoles
  2. You want an intuitive interface without unnecessary complexity 
  3. You want to customize risk prioritization to reflect your business priorities
  4. You want end-to-end vulnerability management with guided remediation
  5. You want easy and flexible deployment options
  6. You want out-of-the-box compliance with industry frameworks

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Features

Features
Easy deployment
Yes, fast and flexible deployment with both agent and agentless options - cloud snapshot scanning for AWS, Azure, and GCP - on-prem, Linux, Windows, and Mac. Mondoo agents are lightweight.
No, Qualys only offers agentless snapshot scanning for AWS and Azure. Their scans have a high rate of false positives and their agent is resource intensive.
Intuitive to use
Yes, Mondoo shows you which findings need your immediate attention and gets you from a security finding to remediation in three clicks or less. Ticketing automation takes care of including all the required information for platform engineers so they can remediate faster.
No, Qualys is complex to use and requires extensive training. There are too many different applications and dashboards for each technology (e.g., cloud dashboard vs. vulnerability analysis).
Full coverage
Mondoo covers your entire IT environment (cloud, on-prem, SaaS, and endpoints) and SDLC from code to runtime.
Limited. You need to license many different modules such as VDMR, EASM, ETM, TotalCloud, EPP, Policy Compliance, SaaSDR, and more.
Regulatory compliance
Mondoo includes 300+ out-of-the-box templates for compliance frameworks (such as SOC2, PCI DSS, NIS2, HIPAA, and NIST) and CIS benchmarks.
No, Qualys only offers CIS, cloud provider, and Qualys frameworks.
Ticketing automation
Yes Mondoo integrates with Jira, Zendesk, GitHub Issues, GitLab Issues, Microsoft Azure DevOps, and any others via email. Mondoo can create tickets for single or multiple assets, automatically validate fixes, and close or reopen tickets as applicable.
Limited. Qualys only supports Jira and ServiceNow and doesn’t offer the ability to group multiple assets in one ticket.
Custom risk prioritization
Yes, Mondoo allows risk factors to be customized and quickly updates scores when changed.
Does not allow fine-tuning of risk prioritization settings.
Exceptions management
Yes, policies and vulnerabilities can be snoozed, mitigated, disabled, or marked as false positives on individual assets or environments.
Exception management is complex and scattered - each module requires separate configurations.
Third-party security integrations
Yes, Mondoo can ingest and prioritize findings from Microsoft Defender, SentinelOne and Crowdstrike
No third-party ingestion of security findings.
Custom workspaces 
Yes, Mondoo allows you to create workspaces based on attributes such as asset name, tag, annotations, platform, platform version, and risk level. Workspaces are automatically updated each time assets are scanned.
Limited. You can create custom dashboards, but the data in the view is often stale and at best days old, because it only gets updated periodically.
Policy as Code
 Yes, Mondoo allows teams to translate policies into code and automate and scale across environments.
No
Straightforward pricing
Avoid having to purchase and deploy different modules with an all-in-one pricing model.
No, cost quickly snowballs, added pricing tiers for TruRiskScore (VMDR module). Qualys also charges a separate license for server misconfigurations (Policy Compliance) and for cloud plane vulnerabilities/misconfigurations (TotalCloud), and SaaS (SaaSDR).
“Thanks to Mondoo, we now have a unified solution of our patch, security, risk, and compliance status, and the ability to secure other clouds, container registries, and on-prem infrastructure in the future.”
Daniel Lentz
Head of Cloud & Information Security Solutions at Universal Investment
“Mondoo has been instrumental in helping us identify vulnerabilities across our assets and has played a key role in our vulnerability ticket generation process.”
Nader Erian
Staff Security Engineer at emnify
“Mondoo was insanely helpful in meeting our PCI DSS requirements.”
Austin Palmer
Head of Cybersecurity and Compliance at Campminder

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