Qualys VM Reviews & Product Details

Qualys Vulnerability Management (VM) is a cloud-based service that provides organizations with immediate, global visibility into potential vulnerabilities within their IT systems. By continuously detecting and assessing threats, Qualys VM helps prevent security breaches and ensures compliance with internal policies and external regulations. Its cloud-native architecture eliminates the need for on-premises hardware, facilitating rapid deployment and scalability. Key Features and Functionality: - Comprehensive Asset Discovery: Automatically identifies and inventories all IT assets across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. - Continuous Vulnerability Assessment: Performs ongoing scans to detect vulnerabilities with high accuracy, minimizing false positives. - Prioritization with Threat Intelligence: Utilizes real-time threat intelligence to prioritize vulnerabilities based on risk, focusing remediation efforts on the most critical issues. - Integrated Remediation: Offers actionable remediation steps and integrates with patch management workflows to streamline the vulnerability management process. - Scalability and Flexibility: Supports a wide range of operating systems and integrates with various cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, ensuring comprehensive coverage. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Qualys VM addresses the challenge of managing and mitigating vulnerabilities in complex IT environments. By providing continuous, automated vulnerability assessments and prioritizing threats based on real-time intelligence, it enables organizations to proactively protect their systems against potential attacks. The cloud-based nature of Qualys VM reduces the need for substantial resource deployment, offering a cost-effective solution for maintaining robust security postures.

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Daniel S.

Senior Lead Information Security Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/23/2026

"Improved UI and Fast Scan Insights with Solid SNOW Integration"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Qualys VM?

The interface UI has improved over time. I can get widgets which get me data fast from my scans. We originally only scanned once a month, but with improvements to the scanners we now scan our environment weekly and I can get that data directly to the teams needed to remediation. We use SNOW and it integrates ok. The main issues is we want to filter vulnerabilities and then have it open a single ticket.

Pricing is higher than I would like, but it also is a premium product. Onboarding for our organization took some time, but we were large overall. We have been able to refine this over time.

I am not sure what AI / Intelligence specific data they are using but we have very few false positives, and we can filter reports quickly. We still prefer manual remediation, however Qualys utilizes TruRisk AI and Agentic AI (specifically Agent Nova and Agent Val) across its platform to automate vulnerability management. These tools automatically identify, prioritize, and remediate critical risks, shifting from traditional scanning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys VM?

It isn't cheap. if your network is highly complex, you really need to do extensive changes to allow the scanners to access the devices you want to see. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mukesh K.

Security Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/7/2025

"One Stop for Endpoint Security"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Qualys VM?

The points below are worth praising for the Qualys VM:-

1. The correlation of Vulnerabilities with the patch information and other industry standards.

2. It provides a real-time view of the vulnerabilities present in an Endpoint.

3. The interactive dashboard is a great aspect of the tool which makes it fun to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys VM?

The points below can be considered as a drawback of the tool:-

1. the customer support takes at least 24 hours for the first reply.

2. The cost of the solution is high compared to others present in the market.

3. Their support could be more useful in terms of technical views. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/19/2021

"Excellent vulnerability scanner"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Qualys VM?

The Asset Management function of VMDR provides significant visibility into the IT environment, foundational for security management. Depending upon your license, you can manage asset vulnerabilities throughout the complete vulnerability lifecycle. Asset View provides hardware and software asset management capabilities (agents are installed on endpoints, network ranges are scanned, passive sensors are installed on network segments to detect new assets as they connect. The product suite as a whole is quite comprehensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys VM?

Because a lot of modules need to be licensed to provide comprehensive management, licensing costs can build up and licensing the entire product suite can become expensive. In order to get the full benefit of the product, and to most effectively streamline vulnerability management operations, it is helpful to have the entire product suite at your disposal. Licensing, say, just the vulnerability management module without the patching module requires that technicians use the Qualys tool to detect vulnerabilities and a separate tool to remediate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qualys VM:

Allocate time for tranining and work closely with your technical account manager (TAM). We've found our TAM to be an invaluable resource who guided us through just about every aspect of the implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qualys VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Prior to implementing qualys, our vulnerability management had been siloed and solely managed via point-in-time scans by third party vendors. This product suite allows us to continuously manage vulnerabilities. We are using this product in a multi-site geographically separated environment in which technicians cannot always be present. The suite gives us a level of visibility we didn't previously have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robert K.

CISSM

8/21/2022

"Qualys"

3/5

What do you like best about Qualys VM?

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What do you dislike about Qualys VM?

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Balaji Ganesh M.

Senior Engineer - Product Security

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/3/2022

"Review for Qualys VM"

4/5

What do you like best about Qualys VM?

The User Interface was ecstatic and the information accuracy about the finding is best to tee. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys VM?

Pricing and services are provided as packages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qualys VM:

Qualys also provides excellent integration support toward multiple tools and solutions such as ITSM and email alerts. Their new offering VMDR will be a game changer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qualys VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Oualys provides the best Vulnerability assessment and remediation solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/17/2021

"Good but not great"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Qualys VM?

The cloud agents option make collecting VM data with little to no false positives simple and provides other useful asset information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys VM?

The web portal is clumsy and not intuitive and no significant improvements made in the last several years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/24/2020

"Finest Vulnerability management Product"

4/5

What do you like best about Qualys VM?

There are numerous key points but I would like to mention which I found the most prominent and which are scanning options, default and custom template, reports and many more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys VM?

Since this product is loaded with many options and features, but I believe these all are necessary according to me, and I found useful, so I would like not to dislike any feature of this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qualys VM:

Since there are many products available in the market but I would like to suggest this product because this is far better product than other products. And I would also suggest to evaluate this solution once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qualys VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

I never had any solution for Vulnerability Management and after installing it can be said that many problems are being resolved in fact many of them are already resolved. Anyone can just resolve many issue while just studying reports, and this can help to hardening infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/22/2019

"The Vulnerability Management IT Infrastructure Tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Qualys VM?

The best tool used for IT infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities and a good tool for reporting. We can suppress the false positive vulnerabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys VM?

It takes a longer time to get the results. It detects false positive vulnerabilities. The response from support takes a long time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qualys VM:

A tool that can be used by IT administrators, pentesters, and developers, easy to use and configure the policy. I request the team to create a solution that can be hosted locally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qualys VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scan the asset daily to find the latest zero-day vulnerabilities from Qualys. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zishan Ali D.

Security Professional

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/10/2019

"Vulnerability scanner for online devices"

5/5

What do you like best about Qualys VM?

This is an online scanner tool which is used to find the vulnerabilities and missing patches from the network devices,Linux servers and windows servers.i like too much this tool that in this reports are generated automatically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys VM?

The process of scanning is slow and some of results are false positive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qualys VM:

I recommend to use this tool for network infrastructure scanning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qualys VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

The implementation and the functionality is nice and find the more number of vulnerabilities and missing patches in the servers.it reduce the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/27/2020

"Great software that does what we need. Generates excellent reports"

4/5

What do you like best about Qualys VM?

I like the reports it generates. Many options how formats, and there are many reports available for generation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qualys VM?

I don't like the licensing model, pay per IP scanned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qualys VM:

If you want to scan networks for vulnerabilities and have great reports generated, this software is for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qualys VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

It fills a void in our MSP catalog. Now when our customers need VM, we don't have to send them elsewhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.