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Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform vs Sweet Security comparison

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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
Qualys TotalCloud enhances efficiency, reduces costs by 30-40%, and increases ROI by 10-20%, significantly saving time and resources.
Sentiment score
3.6
Organizations saw ROI in 3.5 years with reduced manual tasks, efficient risk prioritization, and streamlined vulnerability management.
Sentiment score
6.2
Sweet Security streamlines threat identification, reduces alert fatigue, and enhances visibility, improving efficiency and return on investment in multi-cloud environments.
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
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 manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
I have seen a return on investment, as we need fewer employees for operations.
Sr Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
The ROI is that we are not waiting for a breach but being proactive rather than reactive.
Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
Qualys TotalCloud's customer support is praised for expertise and responsiveness but occasionally faces response delays and inefficiencies.
Sentiment score
5.9
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform's customer service is fast and positive, but users suggest improvements in expertise and human interaction.
Sentiment score
8.8
Sweet Security's excellent support features technical expertise, responsiveness, and competitive pricing, earning high user satisfaction and trust.
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
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
I believe in the initial stages, if they can establish a confidence directly with agents or persons, that will definitely create a lot of trust built up.
VP – Head PM O at Vodafone Idea Ltd.
They are there immediately, providing us with the best technical people, solving any issue we had.
Director of Security Operations at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
They gave me a trial period, did multiple follow-ups, and were reviewing themselves the findings to actually understand how their product is performing.
Infrastructure & Dev Ops Lead at Babylon Labs
I would rate customer support a nine out of ten because they maintain a competitive price, offer trial periods, provide follow-up, are very responsive, and are effectively hands-on in assisting and offering prompt service and support.
Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Qualys TotalCloud excels in scalability but may need skilled management, adaptable for varying environments and large-scale deployments.
Sentiment score
5.6
Qualys TruRisk Platform is scalable, efficiently managing assets and vulnerabilities, adapting to organizational growth and diverse infrastructure needs.
Sentiment score
7.1
Sweet Security scales well for small to medium businesses, but larger enterprises may encounter inconsistent performance issues.
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
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.
We don't need to scale it since it's all SaaS.
Cloud and compute team leader at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are a robust enterprise with thousands of assets in the cloud or tens of thousands.
Director of Security Operations at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
The user interface that I see doesn't make me very confident that I will be able to extract information in case I had hundreds or thousands of Kubernetes clusters or hundreds or thousands of hosts.
Infrastructure & Dev Ops Lead at Babylon Labs
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Qualys TotalCloud is praised for stability, boasting 99.9% uptime with minimal downtime and quickly resolved minor bugs.
Sentiment score
7.0
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is stable, reliable for high-critical assets, with occasional glitches and transparency concerns affecting performance.
Sentiment score
8.9
Sweet Security is praised for stability, reliability, and quick resolutions, earning high user satisfaction and trust in operations.
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
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.
Sweet Security delivers cloud-native service updates seamlessly and requires very minimal operational effort.
System Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I would rate the stability of Sweet Security a ten out of ten.
Works at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We have never had any issues with stability.
Director of Security Operations at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Users recommend enhancing compliance, UI, integration, and reporting, improving security features, and optimizing pricing and navigation for Qualys TotalCloud.
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform struggles with user support, interface usability, performance issues, and outdated reporting capabilities affecting user experience.
Sweet Security needs improvements in customization, integrations, UI, analytics, documentation, reporting, and security incident playbooks for better usability.
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
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
The next great thing that Sweet Security can do is to turn toward IAC, how it is handled and enforced, to tackle potential breaches of policy before they really happen.
Director of Security Operations at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Maybe they can just show the actual signal and not show that there is a lot of vulnerabilities, but indicate which are important.
Infrastructure & Dev Ops Lead at Babylon Labs
The main areas for improvement are related to how Sweet Security needs to be customized.
Works at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
 

Setup Cost

Qualys TotalCloud is costly but offers value and integration, ideal for enterprises despite higher pricing.
The Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is perceived as competitively priced, with users valuing its capabilities despite varying cost opinions.
Sweet Security offers cost-effective pricing, valuable integration, responsive support, and advanced cloud security benefits 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
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 manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
They're not cheap, but they're not as expensive compared to other companies.
Works at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Sweet Security contains very similar features at a much better pricing.
Infrastructure & Dev Ops Lead at Babylon Labs
Sweet Security's pricing is quite fair and cost-effective by many users.
Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
 

Valuable Features

Qualys TotalCloud enhances risk management with misconfiguration detection, TruRisk integration, continuous monitoring, automation, and seamless integration for IaaS and SaaS.
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform offers versatile risk management with agentless deployment, continuous monitoring, and AI-driven insights across various systems.
Sweet Security provides comprehensive cloud security and threat detection, streamlining risk management with real-time monitoring and customizable dashboards.
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 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
Sweet Security's reporting tools enhance our insights into potential vulnerabilities and threats as they serve as our eyes and ears inside AWS, telling us what we are doing wrong so we can fix it.
Cloud and compute team leader at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sweet Security enabled teams to see each detection of activity upon every request made from the application level towards the infrastructure, making it much easier and reducing the time for an analyst to understand what is really happening.
Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
Sweet Security is well-scalable throughout multi-cloud environments and Kubernetes clusters because it relies on lightweight runtime telemetry and cloud native architecture, allowing it to support growing cloud infrastructure of any size.
System Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Qualys TotalCloud
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Ranking in Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (10th), Container Security (11th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (7th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (7th), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (2nd)
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk P...
Ranking in Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
11th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Cloud and Data Center Security (8th)
Sweet Security
Ranking in Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
14th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (33rd), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (14th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (18th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (8th), Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) (6th), AI Security (25th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) category, the mindshare of Qualys TotalCloud is 2.2%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is 0.9%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sweet Security is 1.5%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qualys TotalCloud2.2%
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform0.9%
Sweet Security1.5%
Other95.4%
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
 

Featured Reviews

RO
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.
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.
reviewer2805510 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
Runtime-first security has transformed real-time threat detection and reduced alert fatigue
Sweet Security can be improved in terms of product maturity and ecosystem. It has a smaller market presence, so we do not have as many large enterprise deployments. Sweet Security is less mature than competitors such as Wiz or Palo Alto Networks. Some competitors provide better integrations and workflow tooling. Additionally, as a new vendor, there is a new market perception and higher perceived risk, which relates to trust of the product. Some competitors are seen as safer and more established choices. Since Sweet Security operates in the production live environment, there have been a couple of problems reported where issues occurred in production environments. However, these have been resolved within about an hour or two. Having that risk is always going to be a negative. As a cloud-native platform solution, Sweet Security is really good overall. There are only a couple of areas for improvement, such as not being fully 100% production safe, and the reality that its competitors are global, well-known companies such as Palo Alto and Wiz.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
17%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Transportation Company
7%
Wellness & Fitness Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise30
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise8
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Qualys TotalCloud?
To be totally honest, I do not have any best features because I have had a bad experience using this tool, especially...
What is your primary use case for Qualys TotalCloud?
My main use case for Qualys TotalCloud is vulnerability management and exposure management. I use this tool to evalua...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform?
I obtained Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform directly from a partner and not through the AWS Marketplace.
What needs improvement with Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform?
Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform does not have good qualities, and we are struggling to use this tool to achieve wh...
What is your primary use case for Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform?
My main use case for Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform is to provide a view of the exposure management risk of the c...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sweet Security?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been that Sweet Security's pricing is quite fair and cost-e...
What needs improvement with Sweet Security?
Additional integration with third-party SIEM solutions and ITSM ticketing tools could be made easier. During the init...
What is your primary use case for Sweet Security?
Sweet Security is evolved for the cloud native application protection platform. It focuses specifically on protecting...
 

Also Known As

Qualys TotalCloud with FlexScan
Qualys Cloud Platform
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Overview

Find out what your peers are saying about Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform vs. Sweet Security and other solutions. Updated: June 2026.
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