We performed a comparison between Orca Security and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Container Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is scalable, stable, and can detect any threat on a machine. It uses artificial intelligence and can lock down any virus."
"With PingSafe, it's easy to onboard new accounts."
"We liked the search bar in PingSafe. It is a global search. We were able to get some insights from there."
"The ease of use of the platform is very nice."
"It's helped free up staff time so that they can work on other projects."
"We like the platform and its response time. We also like that its console is user-friendly as well as modern and sleek."
"The UI is responsive and user-friendly."
"The solution helped free other staff to work on other projects or other tasks. We basically just had to do a bunch of upfront configuring. With it, we do not have to spend as much time in the console."
"The visibility Orca provides into my environment is at the highest level... When I dropped them into the environment, from the very get-go I had more insight into the risks in my environment than I had had during the entire two and a half years I had been here."
"The most valuable feature of Orca Security is the automated scanning tool, user-friendliness, and ease of use."
"With its Cloud Security Posture Management capability, we have the ability to read across all of our cloud-based environments, which includes AWS and Azure. We have visibility into those environments. Seeing all vulnerabilities and configurations is really powerful for us, but ultimately, the ability to use the API to query across the fleet to understand what is the current state, what is the patch level, which ones are potentially exposed for a new CVE that just came out is even more valuable. It allows us to gather really specific intelligence through simple queries."
"There are so many valuable features that I could list, but one that I appreciate is the PCI DSS compliance report."
"Orca Security has patented technologies. It's an agentless solution, so you don't need to install an agent. Instead, it contacts your account provider and fetches metadata, eliminating the need for snapshots or reserved space to copy client infrastructure."
"Orca Security has updated its interface, making it more user-friendly. I find it particularly useful as it allows me to easily navigate the dashboard and prioritize actions based on severity and criticality."
"It's for protection. It's an agentless tool. We don't need to install anything at a customer's premises. We can just scan the entire assets in the cloud."
"The vulnerability management does not require network scanning or agent technology, so I don't need to modify any of my products in order to do vulnerability assessments."
"The most valuable features of Qualys VM are its ability to do proper vulnerability assessment. It has a lot of updates for all the vulnerability databases from all over the globe. It's an amazing solution when it comes to the versatility of the features it has. Additionally, the reports are very good. It generates very detailed reports about the vulnerabilities inside the environment"
"Qualys has a continuous endpoint monitoring feature for agent-based scanning. Once you deploy the solution, it monitors everything that is happening every 30 minutes. Then, if there are any vulnerabilities, they are reported."
"What I like about Qualys VM is the dashboard presentation. It's very good."
"Qualys VM is very stable."
"I find Qualys VM very robust, and it's very useful for vulnerability management and patch management. The value that it brings to my environment is economies of scale. There is no limitation on adding any endpoints. You go by the rule, and it's added once another endpoint is added to our environment. It's automatically installed, and it's less work from our end. It frees up my license automatically if I don't need an endpoint or if my machine is decommissioned. I like the dashboard displays because I don't see any duplication. The most important part is vulnerability management and prioritization. Unlike Symantec, it shows the kind of vulnerability I would want to patch first. It provides a holistic view of the kind of vulnerabilities and the ones I should remediate first. I don't have to do a scan; it just brings up those critical kinds of vulnerabilities like zero-day vulnerabilities and tells me to prioritize them. You have to prioritize these vulnerabilities first and go on with the rest. The dashboard shows me the ones that have been fixed, so I don't have to complete an aging report. The user experience and the graphical interface are good. As it's user-friendly and understandable on an executive level, it brings real value. We also use this solution because it's robust and flexibile."
"It is a stable solution."
"Qualys VM's best feature is vulnerability management."
"We also like the flexibility in their licensing."
"When we get a new finding from PingSafe, I wish we could get an alert in the console, so we can work on it before we see it in the report. It would be very useful for the team that is actively working on the PingSafe platform, so we can close the issue the same day before it appears in the daily report."
"In addition to our telecom and Slack channels, it would be helpful to receive Cloud Native Security security notifications in Microsoft Teams."
"One area for improvement could be the internal analysis process, specifically the guidance provided for remediation."
"Some of the navigation and some aspects of the portal may be a little bit confusing."
"One of the issues with the product stems from the fact that it clubs different resources under one ticket."
"We are experiencing problems with Cloud Native Security reporting."
"We had a glitch in PingSafe where it fed us false positives in the past."
"One of our use cases was setting up a firewall for our endpoints, specifically for our remote users... We were hoping to utilize SentinelOne's firewall capabilities, but there were limitations on how many URLs we could implement. Because of those limitations on the number of URLs, we weren't able to utilize that feature in the way we had hoped to."
"The presentation of the data in the dashboard is a little bit chaotic."
"Another improvement would be that, in addition to focusing on endpoint compliance, they would focus on general compliance."
"We are PCI DSS compliant, so we need to scan our environment externally with tools vetted by the PCI DSS organization. Orca doesn't scan the environment externally. It only scans what's currently in the cloud."
"I would like to see an option to do security checks on a code level. This is possible because they have access to all of the code running in the cloud provider, and combining their site-scanning solution with that would be a nice add-on."
"They can expand a little bit in anti-malware detection. While we have pretty good confidence that it's going to detect some of the static malware, some of the detections are heuristics. There could be a growth in the library from where they're pulling their information, but we don't get a lot of those alerts based on the design of our products. In general, that might be an area that needs to be filled since they offer it as a service within it."
"There were a couple of times when Orca was down when I was trying to access it. I work strange hours because all of my team is in the UK right now. It was 2 a.m. on a Saturday and I was trying to log in but it wasn't working. But relative to my other security tools, Orca is definitely the most stable that I've seen."
"I would be happy if they offered more automatic remediation options. They're working on that, but the more the better. For example, if they want you to harden a server, they would offer a hardening script that would be more aware of what's going on."
"I think Orca could give me more alerts. It could give me a dashboard with all the specific types of alerts I want to see for the day. It should just be one click."
"Qualys VM should improve its methodology."
"Make some minimal dashboard improvements."
"Qualys does have an on-prem solution, but it is very expensive."
"It is a struggle to be able to pull our report and to be able to do onboarding using automated tools."
"Sometimes we face a problem with accessing the tool and not getting an expected result. From a technology point of view, they need to look into this."
"The reporting needs improvement. It should generate much more stuff like field reports."
"They have integrated with other third parties, but it is still not viable."
"One of the biggest issues from the clients' perspective is that all Qualys computing is on the cloud."
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Orca Security is ranked 12th in Container Security with 15 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 11th in Container Security with 77 reviews. Orca Security is rated 9.4, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Orca Security writes "Allows agentless data collection directly from the cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Orca Security is most compared with Wiz, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and XM Cyber, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management. See our Orca Security vs. Qualys VMDR report.
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