Qualys TotalCloud vs XM Cyber comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

XM Cyber and Qualys TotalCloud are competing in the cybersecurity solutions category. XM Cyber appears to have an edge with its proactive risk management, while Qualys TotalCloud leads in comprehensive cloud security and compliance.

Features: XM Cyber offers automated attack simulations, continuous risk assessment, and adaptive cybersecurity measures. Qualys TotalCloud provides cloud workload protection, extensive compliance checks, and integrated asset management for a centralized security platform.

Room for Improvement: XM Cyber could enhance its pricing flexibility, expand integration options, and improve user interface design. Qualys TotalCloud may benefit from optimizing deployment speed, simplifying its feature set to avoid complexity, and enhancing real-time monitoring capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: XM Cyber emphasizes straightforward deployment with strong customer support, facilitating quick integration. Qualys TotalCloud is known for its extensive integration capabilities, detailed documentation, and responsive support for diverse tech environments.

Pricing and ROI: XM Cyber involves significant initial investment but potential high ROI by preventing costly breaches. Qualys TotalCloud offers competitive pricing with scalable solutions, allowing businesses to pay as per their specific requirements, optimizing cost efficiency.

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Qualys TotalCloud vs. XM Cyber

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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

5.9

Qualys TotalCloud boosts efficiency and saves 20-40% costs by automating tasks, delivering significant ROI and lower risks.

Sentiment score

6.0

XM Cyber improves efficiency, cutting vulnerability management labor, saving money, and enhancing risk management with superior risk tracking capabilities.

It has saved about 90% of our time.

reviewer2592729

Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

TotalCloud has generated overall savings of 30 to 40 percent across various departments.

reviewer2060841

Security Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

CallStream helps us integrate and automate tasks.

SurajTripathi

Senior Security Consultant at CyberNxt Solutions LLP

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There was a specific issue that our other security tooling did not pick up, but XM Cyber did.

Group CISO at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

It's reduced the timescale to remediate vulnerabilities that are identified as representing a high risk.

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Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.4

Qualys TotalCloud support is well-rated for responsiveness and competence, though complex issues may cause occasional delays.

Sentiment score

6.2

XM Cyber's customer service is highly rated for responsiveness and effectiveness, with some minor improvement suggested by a user.

They are helpful, respond to my queries, and can answer any question.

Bhaskar Praveen

Developer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Qualys's tech support is highly responsive, providing multiple ways to interact with them.

HASHIM JUNAID

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.

Aditya Pathak

Works at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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The customer support is fantastic; it's probably some of the best we've received across all our security vendors.

Group CISO at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

Customer support for XM Cyber is good, responsive, and it follows up on issues.

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Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Qualys TotalCloud is highly rated for scalability and flexibility, efficiently managing large operations despite occasional challenges.

Sentiment score

7.3

XM Cyber provides scalable, reliable solutions with easy licensing and deployment, receiving high ratings and responsive partner support.

We started our organization about nine months back. We started with about 30 users, and we now have more than 100 users.

Mohsin_Raza

CIO at a venture capital & private equity firm with 11-50 employees

Our organization currently uses it to manage over 1200 web applications.

Faiz Delvi

Analyst, Information Security at Infosys

It is absolutely scalable, and I would rate its scalability as nine out of ten.

Eshan Kshirsagar

retired at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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Its scalability is great; it's easy to deploy and fully scalable.

Jerome Monot

IT Security manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We have not experienced any issues with scalability or reached its limits.

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Group CISO at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.4

Qualys TotalCloud maintains high reliability and uptime, with quick issue resolution and well-communicated maintenance ensuring consistent performance.

Sentiment score

8.0

XM Cyber is highly stable, quickly addressing minor issues, ensuring reliable and consistent performance in complex environments.

Overall, the support provided has been excellent.

Faiz Delvi

Analyst, Information Security at Infosys

It is a stable solution, which is why we chose it.

Mohsin_Raza

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.

Bhaskar Praveen

Developer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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We have quite a complex and large IT estate, and we've certainly experienced no limitations or problems arising from the ability of XM Cyber's product to scale across that estate.

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Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Room For Improvement

Users seek clearer licensing, better integration, enhanced compliance, improved UI, and support for Windows containers and IoT devices.

XM Cyber should enhance mobile access, AI integration, support, visualization, tool compatibility, vulnerability detection, pricing, and advanced analytics.

Ideally, the scanner should automatically detect and scan all subdomains, even if not explicitly defined, ensuring comprehensive vulnerability assessment.

Faiz Delvi

Analyst, Information Security at Infosys

Ideally, updates should be more immediate, enabling quicker implementation of solutions.

ShantanuChoubal

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.

Ramachandran Sugumar

Senior Information Security Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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We push the boundaries with digital twins; I understand XM Cyber uses a similar concept of graph databases to map environments.

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Group CISO at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

They could improve support because when we need to create a super case and escalate to resolve with technical support, they resolve our ticket in approximately two weeks.

Amelia Torres Medrano

Chief Information Security Officer at Prezero

The part that can be improved is the mobile exposure and the IBM i specific equipment.

Jerome Monot

IT Security manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Setup Cost

Qualys TotalCloud offers comprehensive features and licensing flexibility, though opinions on its competitive pricing vary among users.

Qualys TotalCloud's pricing is currently acceptable, it is becoming increasingly expensive.

Pramod Borana

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.

Sushant Samantara

IT Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Qualys TotalCloud is expensive, but it offers a premier solution with no headaches.

SubhashMuthareddy

Vice President at Inspira Enterprise

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We have a large, complicated estate, and in the licensing discussions, we were keen not to have the cost balloon because of the complication, the number of PCs and servers that we have.

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Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Valuable Features

Qualys TotalCloud provides comprehensive cloud security with real-time protection, risk assessment, and user-friendly interfaces for efficient management.

XM Cyber enhances security by simulating attacks, assessing risks, identifying vulnerabilities, and optimizing asset protection with metrics and cost savings.

This view of risk helps reduce the work we would have to do to combine multiple sources to prioritize risk.

Aditya Pathak

Works at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

It will help cybersecurity professionals monitor the cloud and find vulnerabilities.

Bhaskar Praveen

Developer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

We are enjoying the new feature, FlexScan, which is valuable for Internet-facing VMs.

Jignesh Baleshwaria

Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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Our loss exposure amount has reduced significantly, leading to two big wins: our loss exposure amount has gone down, and we have direct savings from focusing our team's time on what's important, allowing them to work on other business benefits and generate value for the company.

Group CISO at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

By far, the best feature of XM Cyber is being able to map out the way vulnerabilities can be exploited based on what they call the choke points in the network where the path that a bad actor would take comes closest to assets within our environment that are most vulnerable but also most valuable.

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Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

XM Cyber allows us to quantify the risk, and we are able to track remediation, so we can quantify the risk at an executive level and also to a technical IT team.

Jerome Monot

IT Security manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Categories and Ranking

Qualys TotalCloud

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

13th

Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

9th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Container Security (13th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (9th), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (2nd), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (8th)

XM Cyber

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

27th

Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

19th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Continuous Controls Monitoring (2nd), Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Qualys TotalCloud is 0.8%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of XM Cyber is 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Vulnerability Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Qualys TotalCloud	0.8%
XM Cyber	1.0%
Other	98.2%

Vulnerability Management

Featured Reviews

Arshad N. R.

Cyber Security Specialist at UBS Financial

A centralized tool for vulnerability and misconfiguration management in a multiple cloud environment

Qualys TotalCloud provides written explanations to help guide the remediation paths and eliminate cyber risk. We are using TruRisk for the remediations. The TruRisk shows anything critical, and we can then focus on that. We also assess manually whether an asset is a critical target or not. Qualys TotalCloud provides a single, prioritized view of risk. We are using CIS-CAT standards to harden our clouds, such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. We are able to analyze the scans and identify which policies have failed and how we can remediate them. We can customize policies as per our organization's requirements. That is very helpful for us. With the TruRisk Insights feature, security has significantly improved. In six months of using it, we see that everything is under control. We've solved many problems related to asset management, cloud configuration, and the new asset identification. If an application team has onboarded any cloud asset, we can see that. We have that information now.

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Has significantly improved risk visibility and optimized remediation efforts across dynamic environments

Group CISO at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

We tightly integrate with APIs, consuming feeds and open source data. We have integrated with XM Cyber, and we are elevating ourselves with AI and MCP tools as we view this as a forerunner to reducing the workload for our agents and IT staff. We're pushing all our security partners to provide AI and MCP tools. Our vision is for them to offer a chat interface where a junior IT or an experienced infrastructure engineer can ask for what needs to be patched next without using an interface. Their current interface is very usable and professional, ranking in the top tier of applications. Their reporting is good, offering custom reports, and their API integration is a new capability that serves us well. We have high expectations for the next generation, such as a chat interface to ask questions. However, everything has been very good. We push the boundaries with digital twins; I understand XM Cyber uses a similar concept of graph databases to map environments. I would like access to that and querying languages, enabling more informed business decisions. XM Cyber sees much of our estate, which is beneficial for making informed decisions, and we can harness those insights and data for business analytics. For instance, it could help us gain insights into change management—if a particular server impacts another and that server is supported by yet another server, we could glean significant insights for change management meetings.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	25

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qualys TotalCloud?

Pricing compared to competitor tools is high. My costs depend on asset subscriptions. Pricing remains constant regardless of asset utilization, whereas other tools employ a credit system.

What needs improvement with Qualys TotalCloud?

From a downside perspective, the UI is not user-friendly and feels dated compared to other tools like Prisma Cloud. The navigation is difficult in terms of understanding risk relationships. Attack ...

What is your primary use case for Qualys TotalCloud?

I use Qualys TotalCloud for cloud security posture management across AWS and Google Cloud. I use this tool for compliance and other purposes. I scan AWS and Azure for S3 buckets, security groups, u...

What do you like most about XM Cyber?

The platform's most valuable feature is attack simulation.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for XM Cyber?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that we have a large, complicated estate, and in the licensing discussions, we were keen not to have the cost balloon because of the compli...

What needs improvement with XM Cyber?

There are many interesting things about XM Cyber, but the part that can be improved is the mobile exposure and the IBM i specific equipment.

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Overview

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.

Qualys

XM Cyber is a leading hybrid cloud security company that’s changing the way innovative organizations approach cyber risk. Our attack path management platform continuously uncovers hidden attack paths to your critical assets across cloud and on-prem environments, so you can cut them off at key junctures and eradicate risk with a fraction of the effort. This overcomes the big disconnect that security teams experience when they’re presented with endless alerts, yet can’t see which exposures impact risk the most, how they come together to be exploited by an attacker, or how to efficiently eliminate them. This approach is a complete game-changer, which is why some of the world’s largest, most complex organizations choose XM Cyber to help eradicate risk. Founded by top executives from the Israeli cyber intelligence community, XM Cyber has offices in North America, Europe, and Israel.

Sample Customers

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Hamburg Port Authority, Plymouth Rock Corporation

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