Qualys Cloud Security Assessment Reviews & Product Details

Qualys Cloud Security Assessment (CSA) is a comprehensive solution designed to provide organizations with continuous visibility and control over their cloud security posture. By automating the discovery and assessment of cloud assets, CSA helps identify misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and compliance issues across multi-cloud environments, enabling proactive risk management and remediation. Key Features and Functionality: - Continuous Asset Discovery: CSA automatically discovers and inventories cloud resources, including virtual machines, databases, and storage buckets, across various cloud service providers. - Security Posture Assessment: It evaluates cloud configurations against industry standards and best practices, such as the CIS Benchmarks, to detect misconfigurations and non-standard deployments. - Compliance Monitoring: CSA continuously assesses cloud resources for compliance with regulatory mandates like PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 27001, providing detailed reports for audit readiness. - Risk Prioritization: By correlating vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and threat intelligence, CSA prioritizes risks based on their potential impact, allowing security teams to focus on the most critical issues. - Automated Remediation: The solution offers out-of-the-box, one-click remediation for identified vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, and supports custom workflows through Qualys Flow (QFlow) for tailored remediation processes. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Qualys Cloud Security Assessment addresses the challenge of managing and securing dynamic cloud environments by providing a unified platform for continuous monitoring, assessment, and remediation. It empowers organizations to maintain a strong security posture, ensure compliance with regulatory standards, and reduce the risk of data breaches and other security incidents in their cloud infrastructure.

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Qualys Cloud Security Assessment Reviews (19)

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Usman A.

Director IT

Retail

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/21/2025

"Comprehensive Coverage and Easy Deployment with Excellent Asset Management"

4/5

What do you like best about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

After conducting a thorough review and comparing various products available in the market, we decided to go with Qualys. The platform offers comprehensive vulnerability coverage, and the deployment process was straightforward. We were able to generate detailed reports, and asset management stands out as one of Qualys's strongest features. Additionally, we have found their customer support to be reliable and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

This solution is quite expensive compared to other products. I have noticed that the interface is not particularly robust. While qualysis is working on modernizing its application, many components are still incomplete. The reporting functionality is limited, and we were unable to find a way to suppress vulnerabilities from being included in reports. Additionally, we encountered issues when a machine was cloned, as the agent did not report correctly in those cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Neelamegha kannan S.

Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/11/2022

"GOod"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

User friendly, updated vulnerability database. Scheduled scans, module-specific scans, Multiple features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

Performance and scanning time duration, nothing apart from this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manoj Kumar M.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/8/2023

"Identify and remediate Zeroday attacks on cloud - Qualys Cloud Seccurity"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

Qualys Cloud security assessment tools offer visibility into the entire cloud infrastructure, whether you deploy it on AWS or Azure, give us detailed reports and dashboards that help security engineers to work on remediation of the alerts that are more critical and increase the security posture of the organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

These tools often integrate with other ticketing platforms and security tools. Creating a unified ecosystem to automate the remediation may be challenging as you need to have deep visibility of what Qualys offers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amila D.

Engineer-IT

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/20/2024

"Vulnerability Detection"

4/5

What do you like best about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

Easy to detect vulnerabilities on cloud servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

Nothing so far, it is easy to work with the application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohsin H.

Information Security Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/7/2022

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"PROTECT YOUR ASSETS WITH QUALYS"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

The menu and various options to scan the assets are the best features qualys is offering, i have personally used it for almost 3 years and it gets the job done when needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

Honestly i am not happy with the pricing and licensing model. we have to pay seperately for each module which is not easy on procurement of the compnay, also they need to update plugins database frequently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qualys Cloud Security Assessment:

licensing and cost options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qualys Cloud Security Assessment solving and how is that benefiting you?

i am using it for quartely assessments in complaince with PCI and also facing the public assets of our various clients .the benefits i have obained wiht this was reports which audiotrs find easy to work with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fawad Q.

Senior Officer Threat & Vulnerability Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/1/2022

"Simple Easy and detailed Tool"

4/5

What do you like best about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

Menu and interface are very user friendly and you can teach it to anyone easily. Asset management and scanning questions are diverse and their support team is also on very cooperative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

Vulnerability assessment options should be more updated and more easy to use. There should be a quick scan options or just a vulnerability validation option to quickly check if the reported vulnerabilities have been remediated or not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/13/2022

"The content,Each topic elaboration and descriptions to the depth were very useful."

5/5

What do you like best about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

The content, topic elaboration, and descriptions to the depth were beneficial. The course covers most of the security concepts required for the current cloud providers and secures their cloud premises with the defined best practices. The best security policies, Vulnerability assessments all are up to a point and covered in the Qualys Cloud Security Assessment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

Though the assessment is designed to cover all the best practices to secure the enviroment, the only thing bothering is the assessment structure. In my opinion, the assessment questionnaire should be a little minimal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/8/2022

"Qualys Security"

4/5

What do you like best about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

Qualys organized well in scanning the vulnerabilities and reporting them with ease to create a professional report. Configuration to servers to get the data and logs easily to monitor them is also very well planned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

UI of the platform is a bit not user-friendly at a glance. If the vulnerability scanning is categorized, it would have been more accessible, and reporting formats should have more options to export. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qualys Cloud Security Assessment:

Reporting format can be an issue; besides, the service and tool are pretty excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qualys Cloud Security Assessment solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vulnerability scanning, Maintaining assets, report creating, these are some of the most used tools, and benefits are ease of making the report, accuracy over the scan, maintaining the assets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sonu K.

NOC Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/6/2022

"An amazing product for security of my cloud assets."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

There are many things to like. Some of the key points are like easy to use, highly customizable, Continuous security monitoring, Integration with all popular cloud service providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

A little expensive for small companies.

Daily API request limit.

Some findings may be false positives.

Customer support is a little slow in terms of responsiveness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Balaji Ganesh M.

Senior Engineer - Product Security

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/31/2021

"My View on Qualys Security Assessment"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

I like how Qualys has designed its product to be versatile and adaptive to the present security needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys Cloud Security Assessment?

The pricing is something I don't particularly appreciate since they cost you more when the options are more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qualys Cloud Security Assessment:

Compared to other similar assessment vendors in the market, Qualys is one of the industry's pioneers in Security assessment solutions. Qualys has a versatile solution that suits both on-prem and cloud infrastructures. The administration is at ease, and one can command and control the entire Qualys solution from a single dashboard. Also, form individual teams and assign them with appropriate permissions to manage the operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qualys Cloud Security Assessment solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Qualys cloud security assessment helps in many ways, such as identifying security weaknesses and supporting patch management, and VMDR supports on-demand identification and remediation. In other ways, this practice also supports many organizations with their cloud security compliance audit Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.