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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

Qualys VMDR and RedSeal compete in cybersecurity management. While Qualys VMDR excels in automation and user integration, RedSeal offers comprehensive network visibility and strategic insights, giving it an edge in complex risk identification.

Features: Qualys VMDR supports automated vulnerability detection, prioritizes threats, and integrates with existing security tools. RedSeal provides comprehensive network mapping, detailed security posture visibility, and policy compliance verification.

Room for Improvement: Qualys VMDR could enhance its network mapping capabilities, improve policy control features, and offer more detailed security insights. RedSeal might benefit from streamlining its deployment process, simplifying its setup, and enhancing intuitive user features to match its advanced capabilities with user-friendly design.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Qualys VMDR is favored for easy deployment and accessible customer support. RedSeal requires a more complex setup but provides robust support to address deployment complexities.

Pricing and ROI: Qualys VMDR typically has a lower initial cost and offers quick ROI thanks to its streamlined features. RedSeal involves a higher upfront investment but justifies its pricing with substantial ROI through advanced network insight and risk management capabilities.

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Qualys VMDR vs. RedSeal

February 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Qualys VMDR

Ranking in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Asset Management (3rd), Vulnerability Management (3rd), Configuration Management Databases (3rd), Container Security (9th)

RedSeal

Ranking in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

21st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Risk-Based Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Qualys VMDR is 12.1%, down from 17.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of RedSeal is 1.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Qualys VMDR	12.1%
RedSeal	1.4%
Other	86.5%

Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

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Vaibhav Ghule

Soc Lead & Edr Administration at Persistent Systems

Continuous risk-based monitoring has strengthened incident response and vulnerability prioritization

I haven't explored Qualys VMDR's vulnerability lifecycle automation yet. One of my analysts mentioned that queries lack grouping operators in Qualys VMDR. From my experience, I would appreciate improvements in the query options in Qualys VMDR, specifically in the query-building process where I would need more features and operators. Additionally, we have been facing issues with Qualys on the cloud level. We cannot download the configuration profile from the cloud agent, and it is showing a pending action for download. During 2025, we noticed outages of Qualys a couple of times. I want to mention that there is an issue with receiving timely RCA deliveries. While this is not necessarily about the tool, it relates to support. The support has not been very responsive, and we are receiving RCAs a little delayed whenever we raise support cases or communicate with the TAMs. Additionally, the UI has a slight latency, which I and my team have experienced. They have also reported this latency issue when navigating through different pages.

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reviewer1339494

Associate Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Enhancing network visibility with competitive pricing but needs better OT and 5G integration

The primary use cases for RedSeal are lifecycle management, vulnerabilities, and change management. Customers might look up or use these solutions for these areas RedSeal helps in optimizing the cost for the customer based on different use cases. If the solution caters to a particular use case,…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Technical support is great and we've never really had a problem."

"The integrations for this solution are very good. I use a different product for virtual patching of vulnerabilities and Qualys integrates well with that product."

"Qualys VMDR provides us with a quick response to threat findings through regular scheduled scanning, which improves our security operations."

"It's really beneficial for scanning and interacting with the agent."

"It is a simple solution that makes scanning easy. You just give it a scheduled task, and it will do everything for you."

"It allowed us to divide tasks easily among teammates, significantly improving efficiency."

"Detects new hosts along with vulnerabilities."

"It provides fully automated internal and external vulnerability management."

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"If you want to understand your network environment as it relates to configuration issues, host/node vulnerabilities and firewall configurations, then I highly recommend that RedSeal be considered."

"The most valuable features are network mapping and configuration."

"The Vulnerability and Risk Management feature is valuable to us for keeping the security posture up-to-date and conducting regular continuous audits."

"The most valuable feature of the product to me is being able to ask what-if questions about traffic flows, which is a great ability to have for security and incident response."

"RedSeal integrates the network and gives us a visual or graphical overview of our network. If an organization is geographically dispersed, for instance, with one office in Canada and one office in the Philippines, the whole network, including all devices, is integrated into RedSeal, and you can see from where the traffic is going in and out."

"This is the only solution in the world that gives you a digital resilience score."

"RedSeal helps you prioritize and allocate your scarce human and capital resources where they have the biggest impact to protect your most-valuable digital assets."

"The most valuable feature I enjoy that is provided by this security analytics platform is the ability to measure resilience."

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Cons

"Improve the API speed."

"It is a struggle to be able to pull our report and to be able to do onboarding using automated tools."

"Reports were lacking somewhat on the customization side."

"As users of Qualys for the last three years, we have identified and shared many areas where Qualys needed to have improvements, including vulnerability database having some false positives, web scan module requiring authentication to access basic web forms, asset tagging being a complex technique, and for policy compliance they need to add more leading IT standards for leading IT service providers like Juniper, Cisco, and Microsoft."

"The reporting section needs improvement as running reports can take several hours."

"Qualys VM should improve its methodology."

"In terms of improvement for the web application console, in the older version, things were more segregated and presented in a brief format."

"The IT infrastructure, especially server administration, needs to be improved."

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"There is room for improvement in integrating the OT security part and the private 5G security part in RedSeal."

"Integration with other security tools. Have the ability to create custom reports: Currently, within RedSeal you only have the option to run the canned reports."

"Although we are talking about a very robust platform, I would like to see the Windows compatible VM version come back."

"The dashboard should be improved to make correlating data easier to do."

"There is room for improvement regarding customization and automation of reports."

"One of the areas of concern is the GUI. It is important to our customers that the GUI looks beautiful. It's a Java Client, so you have a Java dependency."

"Sometimes, it required us to refresh the configuration. When we integrated any of the configurations into the device, sometimes, it could not detect the exact picture of that device. So, we had to reset the device to see that if it was giving true-positive results or false-positive results. In some cases, we were not able to get true-positive results. There was some kind of bug in that version. Its interface is not user-friendly and needs to be improved. It takes time to understand the interface and various options. Skybox has quite a user-friendly interface. They could provide a feature for compliance audit policy if it is already not there. A compliance audit policy ensures that all configurations are based on the best practices standards, such as CIS benchmarks standard or other similar standards. It provides visibility about whether your device configuration is based on best practices or not. Usually, such a feature is provided by other solutions such as Meteor or Tenable Nessus."

"Initially their level one support was very frustrating to work with."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is costly."

"The license is on a yearly basis."

"I used to work there, so I never paid for the product. As an employee, we get a lifetime license for personal use, and that's what I'm using. It is a comprehensive platform, so there is a lot more to it. There could be other solutions that are probably a little bit cheaper, but it depends on what people need. Different people have different needs. It offers many things on the same platform. If you add all the things up, it should be cheaper, but I have not done any analysis specifically."

"The pricing is very competitive."

"The product is more expensive than that of any other vendor."

"Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance isn't expensive right now. But the price for their product bundles could be better."

"The solution is reasonably priced for the value it provides."

"The tool's pricing is expensive and I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten."

More Qualys VMDR pricing and cost advice

"The pricing is based on the number of endpoints and devices, and we have seen it range from mid-five figures to low six figures."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Performing Arts

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	70

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Qualys VMDR?

I like that we have many scanners and channels that don't overload. It helps us scan and track easily. Also, the tagging system is good for tagging. We can still use QualysAgent task ID tools even ...

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

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing shows that we can consider both time and money saved.

What needs improvement with Qualys VMDR?

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for RedSeal?

The pricing of RedSeal is competitive.

What needs improvement with RedSeal?

There is room for improvement in integrating the OT security part and the private 5G security part in RedSeal.

What is your primary use case for RedSeal?

The primary use cases for RedSeal are lifecycle management, vulnerabilities, and change management. Customers might look up or use these solutions for these areas.

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Also Known As

Qualys VM, QualysGuard VM, Qualys Asset Inventory, Qualys Container Security

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Overview

Vulnerability Management, Detection, and Response (VMDR) is a cornerstone product of the Qualys TruRisk Platform and a global leader in the enterprise-grade vulnerability management (VM) vendor space. With VMDR, enterprises are empowered with visibility and insight into cyber risk exposure - making it easy to prioritize vulnerabilities, assets, or groups of assets based on business risk. Security teams can take action to mitigate risk, helping the business measure their actual risk exposure over time.

Qualys VMDR offers an all-inclusive risk-based vulnerability management solution to prioritize vulnerabilities and assets based on risk and business criticality. VMDR seamlessly integrates with configuration management databases (CMDB), Qualys Patch Management, Custom Assessment and Remediation (CAR), Qualys TotalCloud and other Qualys and non-Qualys solutions to facilitate vulnerability detection and remediation across the entire enterprise.

With VMDR, users are empowered with actionable risk insights that translate vulnerabilities and exploits into optimized remediation actions based on business impact. Qualys customers can now aggregate and orchestrate data from the Qualys Threat Library, 25+ threat intelligence feeds, and third-party security and IT solutions, empowering organizations to measure, communicate, and eliminate risk across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.

Qualys

RedSeal’s network modeling and risk scoring platform builds an accurate, up-to-date model of an organization’s entire, as-built network to visualize access paths, prioritize what to fix, so you can target existing cybersecurity resources to protect your most valuable assets. With RedSeal’s Digital Resilience Score, decision makers can see the security status and benchmark progress toward digital resilience.

Sample Customers

Agrokor Group, American Specialty Health, American State Bank, Arval, Life:), Axway, Bank of the West, Blueport Commerce, BSkyB, Brinks, CaixaBank, Cartagena, Catholic Health System, CEC Bank, Cegedim, CIGNA, Clickability, Colby-Sawyer College, Commercial Bank of Dubai, University of Utah, eBay Inc., ING Singapore, National Theatre, OTP Bank, Sodexo, WebEx

United States Postal Service, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Interval International