Netskope SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) vs Qualys TotalCloud comparison

Netskope SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) offers robust tools to manage and secure your SaaS applications, ensuring optimal compliance and risk reduction in cloud environments.

Designed to address the complexities of SaaS environments, Netskope SSPM provides comprehensive visibility and control over SaaS application risks. It helps organizations maintain compliance with industry standards while reducing security risks associated with SaaS applications. Its capabilities include real-time monitoring, risk assessment, and automated remediation. The solution is tailored to provide deep insights into SaaS usage and configuration, making it essential for enterprises aiming to safeguard data in the cloud.

• Real-time SaaS Monitoring: Continuously tracks SaaS application activities to detect anomalies.
• Risk Assessment: Evaluates SaaS configurations against compliance benchmarks.
• Automated Remediation: Automatically corrects security misconfigurations.
• Visibility and Control: Provides comprehensive insights into SaaS application usage.
• Compliance Management: Ensures alignment with regulatory standards.

• Improved Security: Reduces exposure to SaaS-related threats.
• Enhanced Compliance: Supports meeting industry-specific regulatory requirements.
• Operational Efficiency: Automates security tasks, freeing up IT resources.
• Cost Savings: Minimizes potential financial losses due to security breaches.

In finance, Netskope SSPM is implemented to secure sensitive financial data against unauthorized access. In healthcare, it aids in maintaining compliance with regulations like HIPAA, safeguarding patient data. The solution is also essential in the retail sector to protect consumer information while maintaining PCI compliance standards.

TotalCloud is the Qualys approach to Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) for cloud infrastructure and SaaS environments. With TotalCloud, customers extend TruRisk insights (transparent cyber risk scoring methodology) from the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform to their cloud environments allowing for a seamless unified view of cyber risk across on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. 

Features and capabilities of Qualys TotalCloud include, but are not limited to: 

Discover: Complete visibility and insights into cyber-risk exposure across multi-cloud. Continuously discover and monitor all your workloads across a multi-cloud environment for a 360-degree view of your cloud footprint. Identify known and previously unknown internet-facing assets for 100% visibility and tracking of risks.

Assess: Comprehensive cloud-native assessments with FlexScanTM. Extensive scanning capabilities with Qualys FlexScan, including no-touch, agentless, API- and snapshot-based scanning, along with agent- and network-based scanning for in-depth assessment. Use these multiple scanning methods to scan a workload to get a unified and comprehensive view of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

Prioritize: Unified security view to prioritize cloud risk with TruRiskTM. Experience a unified risk-based view of cloud security with insights across workloads, services, and resources. Qualys TruRisk quantifies security risk by workload criticality and vulnerabilities; it correlates with ransomware, malware, and exploitation threat intelligence to prioritize, trace, and reduce risk.

Defend: Real-time protection against evolving and unknown threats with InstaProtectTM. Qualys enables continuous monitoring of all cloud assets to ensure they are protected against threats and attacks at runtime. Qualys keeps your cloud runtime safe by detecting known and unknown threats across the entire kill chain in near real-time across a multi-cloud environment.

Remediate: Fast remediation with QFlow – no code, drag-and-drop workflows. The integration of QFlow technology into Qualys TotalCloud saves security and DevOps teams valuable time and resources. Automation and no-code, drag-and-drop workflows help simplify the time-consuming operational tasks of assessing vulnerabilities on ephemeral cloud assets, alerting on high-priority threats, remediating misconfigurations, and quarantining high-risk assets.