Qualys Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

VA solutions identify, categorize and prioritize vulnerabilities as well as orchestrate their remediation or mitigation. Their primary focus is vulnerability and security configuration assessments for enterprise risk identification and reduction, and reporting against various compliance standards. VA can be delivered via on-premises, hosted and cloud-based solutions, and it may use appliances and agents.
Core capabilities include:
- Discovery, identification and reporting on device, OS, software vulnerabilities and configuration against security-related criteria
- Establishing a baseline for systems, applications and databases to identify and track changes in state
- Reporting options for compliance, control frameworks and multiple roles
Standard capabilities include:
- Pragmatic remediation prioritization with the ability to correlate vulnerability severity, asset context and threat context that then presents a better picture of true risk for your specific environment
- Guidance for remediating and configuring compensating controls
- Management of scanner instances, agents and gateways
- Direct integration with, or API access to, asset management tools, workflow management tools and patch management tools

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IT MANAGER

Qualys es una gran solucion para la deteccion de vulnerabilidades en las estaciones de trabajo, asi mismo es muy eficiente para el parcheo de actualizaciones criticas de seguridad

Qualys is a great solution for detecting vulnerabilities on workstations, and it is also very efficient for patching critical security updates.

50M - 250M USD

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IT Security & Risk Management Associate

Inconsistency among the GUIs of individual modules. Little bit slow to display. Quite complex to make use of all purchased functionalities. 

Manager

Qualys is a Powerful vulnerability tool to monitoring any kind of web application and it provides the detailed report bases on PCI severity. I like the explanation against each vulnerability and how to address it.  

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Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings. 
The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices.

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings. 
The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com.


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Favorable Review

Qualys is powerful vulnerability tool for any application and network system.

Critical Review

Great functionality, but complex to implement and fully understand and use.

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