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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.2
Qualys TotalCloud enhances efficiency and risk management, saving time, reducing effort and costs, with 50% operational improvement.
Sentiment score
6.2
Cloudflare's services enhanced security and efficiency, resulting in significant ROI, cost savings, and improved WordPress performance for businesses.
Sentiment score
6.0
Sophos Cloud Optix boosts productivity and efficiency by automating security, compliance checks, reducing costs, and enhancing cloud protection.
It has saved about 90% of our time.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
TotalCloud has generated overall savings of 30 to 40 percent across various departments.
Security Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
CallStream helps us integrate and automate tasks.
Senior Security Consultant at CyberNxt Solutions LLP
For the small project I was working on, using the basic tier provided a huge improvement at zero cost.
Security Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In terms of return on investment with Cloudflare, it costs my time to set them up, but basically once they're set up, it's done.
Owner at Hga consulting
The return on investment for me is significant as time is the critical aspect.
Senior Network and Security Expert at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Fixing this prevented potential data exposure and strengthened compliance with PCI.
Lider Soporte Cloud at a security firm with 51-200 employees
The biggest benefit has been the reduction in time spent on manual cloud security reviews and investigating misconfigurations.
Middleware administrator at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
I have seen a return on investment from Sophos Cloud Optix, with the value usually coming from the time saved, fewer manual checks, and lower compliance efforts rather than replacing a large number of staff outright.
Soc Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.3
Qualys TotalCloud's customer service is efficient and competent, though users desire faster responses for complex issues.
Sentiment score
6.9
Cloudflare's support is responsive and knowledgeable, with varying experiences depending on the plan and need for faster escalation.
Sentiment score
6.6
Sophos Cloud Optix customer service is praised for prompt, professional support, although integration challenges exist with Azure and AWS.
They are helpful, respond to my queries, and can answer any question.
Developer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Qualys's tech support is highly responsive, providing multiple ways to interact with them.
Service Manager, Security Operations at CDA IT SOLUTIONS
Qualys' customer service provides quality answers, but the response time is long, even though it is within the SLA.
Works at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Cloudflare does not offer hands-on technical support to fix customer problems but rather a self-service model.
Senior Consultant CDN at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
I would rate the technical support with Cloudflare as excellent every time I've had to call them.
Owner at Hga consulting
We use other solutions where support is available through Slack channels and is more interactive, with someone responding within a couple of minutes or seconds.
General Manager at bKash Limited
I faced some issues while integrating the product with Azure or M365 into Cloud Optix.
Security Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
On the few occasions when support was needed, the response was professional, and the issues were resolved in a reasonable time frame.
Middleware administrator at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
I have not connected with Sophos Cloud Optix customer support yet, but I had a bad experience when our AWS cloud got compromised, leading to many resources being provisioned.
DevOps Architect at Testware ApS
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Qualys TotalCloud is praised for scalability and versatility but may require experienced personnel and isn't initially user-friendly.
Sentiment score
7.9
Cloudflare excels in scalability, supporting seamless transitions and performance during high-traffic periods, highly rated by users.
Sentiment score
8.0
Sophos Cloud Optix is scalable, supports Azure, automatically adapts to new resources, and efficiently handles growing organizational needs.
We started our organization about nine months back. We started with about 30 users, and we now have more than 100 users.
CIO at a venture capital & private equity firm with 11-50 employees
Our organization currently uses it to manage over 1200 web applications.
Analyst, Information Security at Infosys
It is absolutely scalable, and I would rate its scalability as nine out of ten.
retired at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
It is a SaaS tool, but the fact that they have workloads deployed across the world proves that it is a highly scalable tool.
Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The tool offers very good performance, even during high-traffic periods.
Engineer at SITMEXICO
Cloudflare's scalability is quite good; it is very easy to scale whenever we want to include multiple domains.
Senior Network and Security Expert at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Sophos Cloud Optix scales very well because it was built for multi-cloud environments, in my case Azure, and its automated compliance checks continuously apply standards across thousands of resources.
Cloud Support at a tech company with 1-10 employees
Sophos Cloud Optix has been able to accommodate additional cloud resources and workloads without any noticeable performance issues.
Middleware administrator at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Sophos Cloud Optix's scalability is exceptionally good, as it handles growth and larger environments well.
Soc Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Qualys TotalCloud is highly stable, with excellent uptime and quick issue resolution, ensuring reliable performance and business continuity.
Sentiment score
7.5
Cloudflare is reliable with high stability ratings, minimal issues, improved network connectivity, and praised fast DNS services.
Sentiment score
8.1
Sophos Cloud Optix is praised for its stability, minimal downtime, effective alerts, and superior performance compared to competitors.
Overall, the support provided has been excellent.
Analyst, Information Security at Infosys
It is a stable solution, which is why we chose it.
CIO at a venture capital & private equity firm with 11-50 employees
Continuous monitoring is crucial to ensure system stability and avoid vulnerabilities or threats.
Developer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The service is very stable with no impacts during high-traffic periods.
Engineer at SITMEXICO
Cloudflare's reliability and uptime has met my expectations; it has been quite good in general.
Senior Network and Security Expert at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
The platform has consistently provided continuous monitoring, timely alerts, and access to dashboards.
Middleware administrator at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Sophos Cloud Optix is very stable with no problems regarding the availability of the tool.
Cloud Support at a tech company with 1-10 employees
I find that Sophos Cloud Optix is stable and most of the time reliable, although there is a maintenance window almost every week, with one day dedicated to maintenance.
Soc Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Qualys TotalCloud needs better report clarity, dashboard customization, integration, UI, Windows OS support, pricing, and faster vulnerability detection.
Users suggest improvements in Cloudflare's features, pricing, support, analytics, documentation, and partner relations for better service experience.
Sophos Cloud Optix users want improved alert tuning, deeper integrations, enhanced automation, better interface, and comprehensive training.
Ideally, the scanner should automatically detect and scan all subdomains, even if not explicitly defined, ensuring comprehensive vulnerability assessment.
Analyst, Information Security at Infosys
Ideally, updates should be more immediate, enabling quicker implementation of solutions.
Project Lead at Persistent Systems
Our goal is to integrate all these functions into Qualys, creating a single dashboard for comprehensive security monitoring and management.
Senior Information Security Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Customers do not have options to modify any configuration parameters in Cloudflare, whereas other competitor solutions, such as F5 Distributed Cloud, allow customers to tune configurations according to their requirements.
General Manager at bKash Limited
What Cloudflare is doing internally is that it is stepping ahead in areas like detection and protection.
Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Cloudflare could be improved by introducing a mid-tier pricing option.
Security Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
A frequent theme is making remediation guidance more actionable inside the alert itself.
Soc Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution focuses on cloud security posture management.
Security Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
While it connects well with major platforms, more granular remediation automations are needed.
Lider Soporte Cloud at a security firm with 51-200 employees
 

Setup Cost

Qualys TotalCloud is considered pricey but valuable for large enterprises, offering cost-effective options especially for VMware users.
Cloudflare provides cost-effective, feature-rich plans for varying traffic needs, offering significant value compared to competitors like Akamai.
Sophos Cloud Optix offers competitive pricing, good value for security features, and a smooth licensing process for enterprises.
Qualys TotalCloud's pricing is currently acceptable, it is becoming increasingly expensive.
Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Pricing is managed by our finance team; however, Qualys TotalCloud offers cost-effective licensing flexibility.
IT Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Qualys TotalCloud is expensive, but it offers a premier solution with no headaches.
Vice President at Inspira Enterprise
I find it to be cheap.
Engineer at SITMEXICO
The tool is a premium product, so it is very expensive.
Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
However, the enterprise price for small projects is a bit high.
Security Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I find the price of Sophos solutions to be competitive.
Security Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Overall, the solution seems to provide good value considering the visibility, security monitoring, and compliance capabilities it offers.
Middleware administrator at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
 

Valuable Features

Qualys TotalCloud provides comprehensive cloud security, easy management, real-time insights, and efficient vulnerability assessment to enhance infrastructure protection.
Cloudflare offers superior caching, DNS management, and security, enhancing performance, global reach, and domain management with innovative features.
Sophos Cloud Optix enhances security and efficiency with AI-driven monitoring, multi-cloud visibility, and automated compliance checks.
This view of risk helps reduce the work we would have to do to combine multiple sources to prioritize risk.
Works at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
It will help cybersecurity professionals monitor the cloud and find vulnerabilities.
Developer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
We are enjoying the new feature, FlexScan, which is valuable for Internet-facing VMs.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The solution has been able to compare it to the market, and I think the product has taken great strides in automating quite a bit of things, and they use a lot of AI.
Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Most of our DNS records that are presented to the internet are proxied whenever possible, providing another layer of defense from our perspective.
Senior Security Engineer at ManpowerGroup
Cloudflare has positively impacted our organization by giving us flexibility to manage the DNS part, being quite fast, and allowing us to manage everything from a single dashboard.
Senior Network and Security Expert at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
It includes features like vulnerability management, allowing for visibility into cloud infrastructure at a granular level, highlighting potential loopholes, and suggesting corrective actions.
Security Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Sophos Cloud Optix aids us to set up our infrastructure appropriately, making sure databases are in a private network, and if systems are wrongly set up, it helps us quickly mitigate those issues and provides a report indicating the problem.
DevOps Architect at Testware ApS
The best features of Sophos Cloud Optix are its multi-cloud visibility, automatic compliance checks, and AI-powered anomaly detections, with the standout feature for most teams being continuous compliance automation, which saves weeks of manual audit work.
Cloud Support at a tech company with 1-10 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Qualys TotalCloud
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Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (11th), Container Security (11th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (7th), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (1st), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (6th)
Cloudflare
Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
15th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
79
Ranking in other categories
CDN (1st), WAN Optimization (4th), Web Application Firewall (WAF) (10th), Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (2nd), Managed DNS (1st), Domain Name System (DNS) Security (5th)
Sophos Cloud Optix
Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
21st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) category, the mindshare of Qualys TotalCloud is 1.8%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cloudflare is 2.0%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sophos Cloud Optix is 0.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qualys TotalCloud1.8%
Cloudflare2.0%
Sophos Cloud Optix0.7%
Other95.5%
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
 

Featured Reviews

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IT Security Expert at Alior Bank S.A.
Unified risk scoring has improved our cloud visibility and simplifies remediation priorities
Qualys TotalCloud provides unified vulnerability and threat assessment across both IAS and SaaS. This solution provides a single prioritized view of risk, which helps reduce the work I would have to do. We are no longer based on CVSS; we are based on Qualys risk scoring, which is based on CVSS plus internal findings made by Qualys, and then assigns its own score. The TruRisk insight feature has found a small number of assets with high vulnerability scores, though I am cautious since some information is classified. Qualys TotalCloud has positively impacted our bank's performance, and we have definitely seen benefits after implementing this solution.
M.A. Faisal - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at bKash Limited
Advanced protection has secured critical web workloads and provides clear traffic visibility
From a security perspective, there remains a security loophole, as some browsers in the market can bypass the Turnstile solution, which requires approximately 40 seconds to do so. From a performance perspective, this is acceptable. We also tried Google reCAPTCHA, and that can also be bypassed. From a security perspective, I would say neither solution is completely secured. Regarding uptime, we have faced a couple of incidents due to Cloudflare in recent years, so I cannot say we receive 100% uptime for our region. We sometimes face challenges, including downtime and other issues. As a result, we are not receiving 100% uptime from Cloudflare's solution. Since most of our customers are in this region, we need alternatives. We need something more competitive than Cloudflare. Unfortunately, in Bangladesh, Cloudflare has three points of presence already, and we cannot find any other solution provider in Bangladesh as an alternative, which presents another challenge. Competitor solutions have more attack signatures, which ensure better security compared to Cloudflare's predefined configurations. Customers do not have options to modify any configuration parameters in Cloudflare, whereas other competitor solutions, such as F5 Distributed Cloud, allow customers to tune configurations according to their requirements. Cloudflare could improve in this area. Additionally, regarding visibility, Cloudflare has static visibility, but they could adopt dynamic graph features for their customers.
reviewer2845695 - PeerSpot reviewer
Middleware administrator at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Centralized monitoring has strengthened cloud posture and prioritizes critical security risks
The best features Sophos Cloud Optix offers are cloud security posture management, CSPM, continuous monitoring for misconfiguration, compliance reporting, and centralized visibility across multi-cloud environments. I also find the risk prioritization helpful, as it helps me focus on the most critical security issues first, and the intuitive dashboards make it easy to understand the overall security posture. Additionally, the alerting and reporting capabilities help my team respond to issues quickly and maintain compliance with organizational security standards. Sophos Cloud Optix has positively impacted my organization by improving my visibility into cloud security and helping me identify misconfigurations before they became security incidents. It has reduced the time required to detect and investigate potential risks by providing prioritized alerts and centralized dashboards. As a result, my team responds to security issues more effectively and spends less time on manual reviews. It has also supported my compliance efforts by providing clear reporting and continuous monitoring, which has strengthened my overall cloud security posture.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Construction Company
11%
University
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Security Firm
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise29
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business46
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise26
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise2
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Qualys TotalCloud?
Areas that need improvement in every solution include the remediation part. The remediation steps should be simple en...
What is your primary use case for Qualys TotalCloud?
Our use case involves the assets that we have under cloud, the assets exposed to the internet, and the internal appli...
Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?
Cloudflare. We are moving from Akamai prolexic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare anycast network outperforms Akamai static GR...
Which would you choose - Cloudflare DNS or Quad9?
Cloudflare DNS is a very fast, very reliable public DNS resolver. It is an enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudflare DNS?
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Cloudflare are a bit on the higher side overall.
What needs improvement with Sophos Cloud Optix?
A few areas where Sophos Cloud Optix could be improved, based on daily use, include deeper integrations. While it con...
What is your primary use case for Sophos Cloud Optix?
Sophos Cloud Optix secures and monitors our cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS. It has helped us identify misc...
What advice do you have for others considering Sophos Cloud Optix?
Sophos Cloud Optix is a great solution for different clouds. For me, Sophos Cloud Optix is a time save. I would recom...
 

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