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LevelBlue Managed Detection and Response vs Qualys TotalCloud comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 24, 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
5.9
Alert Logic MDR provides significant ROI, boosting security and reliability, though satisfaction varies with service utilization levels.
Sentiment score
5.3
Qualys TotalCloud enhances efficiency and automation, achieving up to 40% cost savings and over 50% improved asset scanning.
We are able to scan all our assets with less human intervention and achieve overall effective outcomes.
Dns architect at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.0
Alert Logic MDR's customer service is highly rated for responsiveness, proactivity, and effective technical support, with overall user satisfaction.
Sentiment score
6.7
Qualys TotalCloud's customer service is praised for responsiveness despite occasional delays, with ratings from seven to ten.
They respond to our queries on time.
System Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
There's a technical account manager, and the customers are very happy with it.
Business Development Manager for Cybereason at Bechtle
I would rate the technical support as nine out of ten.
Senior Security Specialist at Wipro Limited
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
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Alert Logic MDR scales efficiently, supporting seamless integration and adaptability, handling organizational growth without performance issues across varied operations.
Sentiment score
7.4
Qualys TotalCloud is highly scalable and adaptable, efficiently supporting varied environments and large-scale deployments with robust performance.
It scales very high.
Business Development Manager for Cybereason at Bechtle
Alert Logic MDR is scalable.
Soc Analyst at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
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
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Alert Logic MDR is highly rated for reliability and performance, efficiently managing data across global Nexus 9000s without issues.
Sentiment score
8.4
Qualys TotalCloud is stable and reliable, offering 99.9% uptime with quick support for minor issues and transparent maintenance updates.
You will find no errors or glitches with Alert Logic MDR.
Soc Analyst at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
Overall, the support provided has been excellent.
Analyst, Information Security at Infosys
It has a lot of scanning mechanisms, which are agentless APIs, eBPF, and cloud agents, that are highly reliable.
Sr Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is a stable solution, which is why we chose it.
CIO at a venture capital & private equity firm with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Alert Logic MDR needs UI enhancements, integrated EDR, advanced analytics, intuitive design, and improved documentation for better user experience.
Qualys TotalCloud requires UI improvements, better cloud integration, enhanced support, and optimized reporting, onboarding, and vulnerability detection.
Detecting early when someone tries to compromise your ID would be a nice feature.
Business Development Manager for Cybereason at Bechtle
The ease of use of the dashboard and accessing security reports needs enhancement.
System Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
One major missing feature was the ability to see if vulnerabilities were exploitable, which required extra effort for us.
Security Analyst at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
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
 

Setup Cost

Alert Logic MDR offers competitive, value-aligned pricing on yearly contracts; costs range from $10-$12 per endpoint via AWS Marketplace.
Qualys TotalCloud is costly but justified for large companies due to features, flexibility, and VMware integration efficiencies.
The valuable aspect of pricing is that we do not need our own data center and software licensing, which reduces costs.
System Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The price, which is per endpoint around ten to twelve dollars, and it is a good setup cost.
Soc Analyst at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
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
 

Valuable Features

Alert Logic MDR enhances security response with global threat visibility, intuitive interface, and efficient integrations, improving incident management.
Qualys TotalCloud offers efficient asset discovery, security posture management, and vulnerability management with excellent integration and threat intelligence features.
Automated information on zero-day threats is provided without us needing to ask.
System Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The quick reaction and the ability to restore the state before within a short time are significant.
Business Development Manager for Cybereason at Bechtle
The standout features of Alert Logic included the topology feature, which was helpful for mapping assets on the network, giving a clear understanding of all connected devices.
Security Analyst at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
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
 

Categories and Ranking

LevelBlue Managed Detection...
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
33rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
SOC as a Service (3rd), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (6th)
Qualys TotalCloud
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
10th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
Container Security (11th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (8th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (8th), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (2nd), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of LevelBlue Managed Detection and Response is 0.9%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qualys TotalCloud is 1.2%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qualys TotalCloud1.2%
Alert Logic MDR0.9%
Other97.9%
Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2865402 - PeerSpot reviewer
Soc Analyst at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
Endpoint monitoring has become faster and has reduced alert response time for our clients
The best features that Alert Logic MDR offers include AI and behavior analysis, which I find most valuable. AI and behavior analysis mean that within AI there is static AI analysis and behavior analysis with subtypes. For example, if there is any file or a certain subtype, or if ransomware is happening, or any tool or app is being used, there are subtypes of AI. I appreciate that Alert Logic MDR has a separate AI for each type. Alert Logic MDR has positively impacted our organization by minimizing the alert SLA timing. When we used our other endpoint detection and response solution, we required at least fifteen minutes to raise one alert. After using Alert Logic MDR, we integrated it with SOAR technology, so within five minutes, the alert is raised to the client. Efficiency-wise, reducing the alert SLA timing to five minutes has been very beneficial. Whenever we receive an alert from endpoint detection and response from an endpoint to the Alert Logic MDR console, the system directly has the protect mode, conducting the kill and quarantine process itself. We only have to perform static analysis, and we have the playbooks, so they conduct some static analysis from there and directly raise the alert to the respective team.
reviewer2859021 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Risk-based triage has transformed container security and now prioritizes high-impact threats
The best features Qualys TotalCloud offers currently include managing cloud infrastructure and container security while facing major challenges such as alert fatigue. Traditional vulnerability scanners flag hundreds of CVEs on short-lived Kubernetes containers, some of which have no internet exposure or are gone before we can even triage them. I leverage Qualys TotalCloud to move beyond static CVSS. I use it to implement runtime exposure, correlation risk reprioritization, and shift-left integration. This notifies developers to fix a base image upstream rather than patching live ephemeral instances. In my work with cloud and container security, the biggest operational hurdle was alert fatigue. I use Qualys to shift left from static CVSS severity to context-aware risk prioritization. I correlated raw vulnerability data with real-time risk factors such as public network exposure, active runtime execution, or overly permissive IAM roles. This allows us to immediately drop the priority of isolated containers and escalate lower-severity CVEs that sit on an exposed, high-risk path. We can map these findings directly back to our CI/CD pipelines so developers can patch the root base images upstream. We have drastically cut down the signal-to-noise ratio, saved a lot of manual hours doing triage work, and ensured engineering effort goes directly towards high-impact risk reduction.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
16%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise18
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise34
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alert Logic?
Regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, the sales and management teams discuss the price, which is per endpoint around ten to twelve dollars, and it is a good setup cost.
What needs improvement with Alert Logic?
I think Alert Logic MDR could be improved. If Alert Logic MDR not only detected incidents but also allowed us to block those incidents or isolate any affected asset, that would be beneficial.
What is your primary use case for Alert Logic?
My main use case for Alert Logic MDR was investigating all cloud assets and generating alerts when issues or attacks were detected, whether DDoS attacks or other kinds of security attacks. Alert Lo...
What needs improvement with Qualys TotalCloud?
In terms of improvement, remediation still belongs to the cloud team, which is one of the issues we faced with Qualys TotalCloud. Qualys TotalCloud can identify the problem, but changing an AWS sec...
What is your primary use case for Qualys TotalCloud?
My main use case for Qualys TotalCloud is regarding the cloud visibility that we were not having previously. Previously, we were just looking at critical vulnerabilities and patching them. Now with...
 

Also Known As

Alert Logic Threat Manager, Alert Logic Cloud Defender, LevelBlue Managed Threat Detection and Response, Cybereason Managed Detection & Response
Qualys TotalCloud with FlexScan
 

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Sample Customers

Telenav, Foster Farms, Crosskey
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