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Illumio Segmentation vs Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 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
5.3
Illumio Segmentation is praised for its cost-effectiveness, offering significant savings and efficiency with advanced security features.
Sentiment score
4.0
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform users benefit from significant ROI through time savings, operational efficiency, and reduced staffing needs.
I observe extensive return on investment with Illumio.
Senior Security Consultant at Orange Cyberdefense
Illumio serves as a single endpoint technology where I can implement various features, including a zero-trust network, north-to-south and east-to-west configurations, and micro-segmentation, all coming from one platform, which ultimately saves us time and money.
Security Professional at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Illumio definitely demonstrates its value in money-saving capabilities, enhancing our lateral environment inside the organization and providing effectiveness overall once integrated.
Security delivery specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I have definitely seen a return on investment; we save a lot of time on a day-to-day basis, during audits, and we need fewer employees because the platform has a lot of capabilities that do not require manual effort.
Head of Business Operations at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
In case of any attack and compromise, there is a big value return on investment.
Senior Manager Of Cyber Security at Ernst & Young
I estimate that I have managed to save about thirty percent time since I started using the platform.
Manager, Information Technology Risk & Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
4.9
Illumio Segmentation's customer service is praised for responsiveness but criticized for delays and inconsistent support quality.
Sentiment score
5.9
Feedback on Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform's support varies, with praise for responsiveness but criticism for delays and expertise issues.
Whenever I raise a case with their support team, regardless of the priority level—P1, P2, P3, or P4—they generally reply within an hour
Security Professional at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Even if we raise an issue on non-working days like Saturdays or Sundays, we receive prompt responses.
IT Specialist at Allianz
Whenever we have any issues regarding upgrade or installation, we raise it and get good support from Illumio.
Lead Security Architecture at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I have seen replies in less than two or three hours.
Mediation Specialist III at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
When we reach the support team, they do not seem to have the skills to handle our questions and instead return with basic scripted questions rather than understanding what we are asking for and providing proper answers.
Security Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
They provide detailed explanations or instructions when needed, making it easy to resolve specific problems.
Cyber Security Threat Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.7
Illumio Segmentation is highly scalable, supporting diverse environments seamlessly, with features like policy scripting enhancing user experience.
Sentiment score
5.4
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is scalable, adaptable to various infrastructures, with straightforward licensing and excellent support despite minor issues.
Scaling it to a large level is not an issue for us.
Cyber Security Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
By employing Linux scripting or other methods, I can push the policy to all devices at once, making it easy to scale.
Security Professional at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Currently, we have about twenty to thirty thousand servers, and we are planning to have Illumio Segmentation installed for about seventy to eighty thousand servers.
Lead Security Architecture at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Once we supplied 130 URLs to it for scanning one by one, and it crashed in between.
Mediation Specialist III at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Qualys is fairly elastic.
Principle Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The use cases that we have handled have not presented much of a challenge on the scalability part.
VP – Head PM O at Vodafone Idea Ltd.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Illumio Segmentation is stable, highly rated for reliability, though some users are still adjusting and optimizing its settings.
Sentiment score
7.4
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is stable and consistent, rated positively despite minor glitches and occasional internal network issues.
Illumio is a stable solution with no glitches or bugs reported, making it a reliable product for us.
IT Specialist at Allianz
I would describe Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform as stable regarding crashes or downtimes ever happening.
Cloud Security Engineer at Punch Powertrain nv
It is not critical in the way that we have for Cortex XDR where if it fails, then the organization basically ceases to function.
Principle Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
In terms of stability, I would rate it somewhere around seven.
VP – Head PM O at Vodafone Idea Ltd.
 

Room For Improvement

Illumio Segmentation needs enhanced tech support, user interface, compatibility, scalability, automation, and comprehensive third-party and container integrations.
The Qualys platform needs better AI integration, user interface, and reporting to improve usability, accuracy, and decision-making.
They need to install an agent in the container world, while Akamai Guardicore does not need to install an agent, so they have native support that Illumio lacks.
Senior Security Consultant at Orange Cyberdefense
There could also be more examples of how the automations can be done using Illumio.
Cyber Security Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Another improvement might be around scalability, ensuring that as organizations grow, Illumio can handle even larger, more complex environments seamlessly.
DevOps at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees
We need to export data to external tools to perform the work that is supposed to be done in the tool itself, so we do not have any real return on investment using this tool.
Security Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It would be beneficial if the solution could correctly identify the exact OS version, potentially requiring code adjustments.
IT Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
If you have uploaded a file containing many IP addresses, you don't have a straightforward option to check what the IP addresses were.
Mediation Specialist III at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
 

Setup Cost

Illumio Segmentation offers a flexible subscription model, perceived variably, with adaptable pricing for direct or AWS purchases.
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform offers competitive pricing, scalable with assets, noted for value and ease in implementation.
I know that Illumio is the cheapest solution in the security area.
IT Specialist at Allianz
But when you compare it to firewalls, then it may not be that expensive.
Senior Security Consultant at Orange Cyberdefense
I think it's not very expensive if we compare it with Guardicore.
Cyber Security Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform was not expensive regarding the pricing point.
Cloud Security Engineer at Punch Powertrain nv
The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is expensive.
Principle Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing of Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform are as per our budgets, and we found it to be economical.
Head of Business Operations at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Illumio Segmentation enhances security with micro-segmentation, real-time control, easy policy management, and seamless integration, improving scalability.
Users appreciate Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform for its detailed reporting, seamless integration, AI risk assessments, and efficient vulnerability management.
Illumio helps in audit purposes by saving data and showing blocked traffic, ensuring no outside traffic is allowed.
IT Specialist at Allianz
The most important feature is the traffic review analysis, where we use the draft view and the reported view that helps us understand how the application interacts with other applications in the environment, and based on that, we are able to define the policies.
Cyber Security Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Illumio is a powerful tool for micro-segmentation and zero trust security that provides strong visibility, flexible policy management, and effective threat containment, enhancing an organization's internal security posture.
Cybersecurity Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The platform scans the entire environment and IP range, providing comprehensive vulnerability reports along with solutions to address these vulnerabilities.
IT Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It will also provide the information of the CVEs related to it, CVSS score related to it, and the CVEs will help you to understand more about how bad it can get.
Mediation Specialist III at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
It identified trust distributions amongst our assets, what are high risk items, what are critical things, vulnerabilities that can be exploited, and what are critical priorities for us.
Cloud Security Engineer at Punch Powertrain nv
 

Categories and Ranking

Illumio Segmentation
Ranking in Cloud and Data Center Security
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (11th), Microsegmentation Software (1st)
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk P...
Ranking in Cloud and Data Center Security
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Cloud and Data Center Security category, the mindshare of Illumio Segmentation is 13.4%, down from 22.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is 1.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud and Data Center Security Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Illumio Segmentation13.4%
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform1.6%
Other85.0%
Cloud and Data Center Security
 

Featured Reviews

Irfan Sharfi - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Professional at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Micro-segmentation has transformed endpoint protection and now isolates internal threats effectively
Illumio can be improved in several areas based on our feedback. Sometimes, the PCE experiences slowness, especially when deploying around 300,000 endpoint devices. When these devices communicate within the network, loading the map or connections can cause latency, which needs improvement for a more user-friendly and faster experience. Regarding improvements to the interface, I believe we can add more features to the graphical user interface, such as proper logs. While the logs currently indicate what was blocked or allowed, clicking on a specific log should provide more information, such as which extra-scope rule is causing a denial, offering better analysis for troubleshooting.
PK
VP – Head PM O at Vodafone Idea Ltd.
Governance dashboards have improved risk visibility but still need smarter automated decisions
The governance part is the most prominent area for improvement. We want to have a dashboard with just one click where the KPIs are pre-configured as per the business requirement and those things are monitored on a regular basis to check how things are moving. Governance and high-level management or board level visibility matter the most. We are trying to incorporate artificial models which can take care of many things that are currently taken care of manually or through certain jobs so that they can be automated with the help of AI models or agents. We will progress as the AI model matures with pattern learning and all those things. We want self-decision capabilities. Not just analysis and giving alerts, but even taking decisions of actions and performing those actions. The first step would be to not only alert that there is an issue or threat, but to evaluate the threat itself in generality and suggest something. The second step is where those suggestions will definitely have some good minds working on them, but only if they are suitable will we make it as a learning model. Otherwise, we will discard and modify those things. The second level would be to let the learning model learn and then gradually figure out whether we can delegate the decision in the sense of the action that they can perform, see it and then evaluate whether it is falling in line as per the expectation. This is how we will progress on a use case basis only.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise14
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Illumio Adaptive Security Platform?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Illumio Segmentation is good; it was good compared to others.
What needs improvement with Illumio Adaptive Security Platform?
Illumio Segmentation can be improved by further implementing some plugins for tasks such as restart operations for which we don't have the right approvals to get into the server and do that work. A...
What is your primary use case for Illumio Adaptive Security Platform?
My main use case for Illumio Segmentation is implementing it across all the applications in our organization. A quick specific example of how I use Illumio Segmentation with one of my applications ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform?
My experience with the price, implementation cost, and licensing of Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is that it is easy to implement, fairly competitive in price, and offers a very good experience.
What needs improvement with Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform?
I think Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform could be improved by integrating it more with external artificial intelligence agents to integrate them into the ecosystem we have, thus feeding it throug...
What is your primary use case for Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform?
My main use case for Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is to integrate it with different cybersecurity solutions and other solutions and to identify the main findings and be able to prioritize whe...
 

Also Known As

Illumio Adaptive Security Platform, Illumio ASP
Qualys Cloud Platform
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Plantronics, NTT Innovation Institute Inc.
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