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Rapid7 InsightCloudSec 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
5.5
Qualys TotalCloud boosts efficiency, reduces manual effort, decreases risk, and offers significant cost savings with a notable ROI.
Sentiment score
6.0
Rapid7 InsightCloudSec saves costs, reduces risks, automates tasks, and streamlines compliance, enhancing security and operational efficiency.
Sentiment score
6.1
Sweet Security boosts incident response and reduces alert fatigue with improved visibility, prioritizing threats for informed tool investments.
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
By catching issues early, Rapid7 InsightCloudSec helps us prevent costly breaches or regulatory fines; for example, automating patching and misconfiguration audits can save thousands in operational overhead.
Site Reliability Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
It provides a good security posture and helps handle misconfigurations and day-to-day remediations.
Senior Cloud Security Engineer at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
I can confirm money and time savings with Rapid7 InsightCloudSec, as we can scan the entire IP range simultaneously instead of manually checking each asset for vulnerabilities.
Junior systems engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 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
7.4
Qualys TotalCloud support is praised for efficiency and staff knowledge but criticized for delays and inconsistent quality.
Sentiment score
4.9
Rapid7 InsightCloudSec customer service receives mixed reviews, excelling in responsiveness but needing improvement in communication and local presence.
Sentiment score
9.0
Sweet Security provides exceptional customer service and technical support, with quick issue resolution and strong customer relationships.
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
On a scale of 1 to 10, the customer support would be rated a 10, as responses are typically received within about half an hour to an hour when creating a ticket.
Senior Platform Engineer Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
They have excellent support with internal Slack channels and are directly reachable through Teams.
Senior Cloud Security Engineer at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
I interacted with customer support after an endpoint compromise incident, and they responded quickly and provided clear insights that were essential for resolving the situation.
Platform Engineer at Cedar Gate Technologies, LLC
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
7.8
Qualys TotalCloud excels in scalability, efficiently supporting diverse environments and business sizes, though it may require skilled management.
Sentiment score
5.8
Rapid7 InsightCloudSec is a scalable, adaptable SaaS tool providing reliable cloud visibility but may require specific configurations.
Sentiment score
7.3
Sweet Security scales well for small to medium businesses but faces mixed reviews for large enterprise scalability and performance.
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
I have not experienced performance issues as I add more assets, and everything operates smoothly within one console.
Junior systems engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
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 highly stable with reliable support, 99.9% uptime, minimal bugs, and effective maintenance communication.
Sentiment score
8.0
Users are pleased with Rapid7 InsightCloudSec's stability, though some experience slight slowness due to its SaaS platform.
Sentiment score
8.5
Sweet Security is highly stable, with users rating it 9-10/10 for reliability and quick issue resolution.
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
Rapid7 InsightCloudSec works without any stability issues so far.
Junior Security Analyst at a financial services firm 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
Sweet Security is stable, as I find that user experience does not tend to reveal many production problems, and when they do occur, they are resolved quickly.
Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Users suggest enhancing Qualys TotalCloud with clearer reports, better integration, intuitive UI, AI risk assessments, and improved documentation.
Rapid7 InsightCloudSec needs UI/UX improvements, better third-party integration, enhanced reporting, and refined risk prioritization and detection capabilities.
Sweet Security needs improved integration, UI, and automation, with concerns over complexity, customization, and market position risks.
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
Rapid7 InsightCloudSec already provides us real-time feedback loops, but if it also provides real-time feedback to the developers, then it would help the application shift left, meaning the security will shift left as well.
Site Reliability Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Rapid7 InsightCloudSec needs improvements such as AI-driven risk prioritization, proactive cloud risk modeling, advanced IAM privilege analysis, multi-cloud attack path mapping, pre-built automated hardening, defining stronger policy as code support, better container and serverless coverage, and cost optimization insight along with safe auto-remediation with rollback improvements.
Cybersecurity analyst at Cornerstone OnDemand
If you can improve the traditional detection rules to reflect current detection rules, it would make it significantly easier for us to manage, as we constantly need to check legacy rules to update or possibly turn them off. Updating the legacy rules should be a priority.
SOC analyst at a media company with 1,001-5,000 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's pricing is high yet justified by comprehensive features and flexibility, benefiting larger enterprises seeking robust security.
Rapid7 InsightCloudSec offers competitive, cost-efficient cloud security management with reasonable pricing, seamless licensing, and straightforward setup.
Sweet Security offers cost-effective pricing with fair value, integration benefits, and excellent support, ideal for enterprise-level businesses.
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
It is cheaper.
Senior Cloud Security Engineer at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
The more numbers you have, the less costly the product becomes, as licensing operates on volume.
Junior systems engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
While it was not overly expensive, I do wish for more discounts for bulk purchases since we have implemented it widely across our cloud security posture.
Platform Engineer at Cedar Gate Technologies, LLC
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 offers comprehensive vulnerability detection, cloud security management, and automation with insightful dashboards for efficient threat management.
Rapid7 InsightCloudSec enhances security with frameworks, threat detection, automation, and AI log searches, boosting efficiency and response speed.
Sweet Security offers deep runtime visibility, unifying security with real-time insights, threat detection, and customizable dashboards for APIs.
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
Using Rapid7 InsightCloudSec alongside our ManageEngine patch management module positively impacts my organization by scanning assets deeply and providing all identified vulnerabilities, from zero-day to any vulnerabilities on an asset, addressing those that ManageEngine might not identify.
Junior systems engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Rapid7 InsightCloudSec has helped us save thirty percent time in our log retrievals, and it completely changed log searching, making it really fast when we search for logs, with no prior knowledge required.
Site Reliability Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Rapid7 InsightCloudSec positively impacts my organization by integrating tightly with my existing vulnerability management process and workflows, particularly in creating a new project and implementing trigger-based scanning.
Assistant Vice President for Security Operation Center at Sohar International Bank
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
I really love the feature within Sweet Security platform that allows you to visualize the specific packages or functions that are being loaded to the memory and are actually being executed by the operational system.
Director of Security Operations at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Qualys TotalCloud
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Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
8th
Ranking in Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (11th), Container Security (11th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (8th), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (1st)
Rapid7 InsightCloudSec
Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
13th
Ranking in Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
10th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (12th), AI Observability (8th)
Sweet Security
Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
19th
Ranking in Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
14th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (31st), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (15th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (9th), Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) category, the mindshare of Qualys TotalCloud is 2.0%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rapid7 InsightCloudSec is 1.6%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sweet Security is 1.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qualys TotalCloud2.0%
Rapid7 InsightCloudSec1.6%
Sweet Security1.5%
Other94.9%
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
 

Featured Reviews

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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.
Arun Babu - PeerSpot reviewer
SOC analyst at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Daily endpoint monitoring has improved investigations and saved time but detection rules still need tuning
It is important to note that Rapid7 InsightCloudSec's features are not 100% precise, but I find about 70% of the time it is satisfactory. I would like to suggest that you improve it to be more precise, ideally making it 100% if possible. Some cases in Rapid7 InsightCloudSec indicate that the log is not enough, as they mostly just generate alerts, and the synchronization between data connectors is often problematic, particularly in terms of not being in sync always, especially between the AD and Rapid7 alerts, which generates numerous false positives. Additionally, the traditional rules should be updated, as this is a main point worth mentioning since we spend a lot of time fine-tuning these traditional rules. I suggest improving the legacy detection rules. If there are any authentication cases, such as impossible travel activity where a user has their SharePoint hosted in a different location, Rapid7 can often trigger alerts, creating confusion as we cannot fine-tune it properly. Another issue is with honeypot access. We sometimes lack necessary logs because Defender's advanced threat protection scanning gets detected as honeypot activity by Rapid7, leading to annoying and noisy alerts that we need to constantly close. If you can improve the traditional detection rules to reflect current detection rules, it would make it significantly easier for us to manage, as we constantly need to check legacy rules to update or possibly turn them off. Updating the legacy rules should be a priority.
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
18%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Construction Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Insurance Company
8%
Wellness & Fitness Company
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise29
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Qualys TotalCloud?
Areas that need improvement in every solution include the remediation part. The remediation steps should be simple en...
What is your primary use case for Qualys TotalCloud?
Our use case involves the assets that we have under cloud, the assets exposed to the internet, and the internal appli...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rapid7 InsightCloudSec?
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Rapid7 InsightCloudSec are reasonable, and since our organization is growi...
What needs improvement with Rapid7 InsightCloudSec?
I would say that because Rapid7 InsightCloudSec does not have automatic patching capabilities, it provides recommenda...
What is your primary use case for Rapid7 InsightCloudSec?
In my role, my main use case for Rapid7 InsightCloudSec is for vulnerability management, where I scan my machines to ...
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?
Sweet Security can be improved in terms of product maturity and ecosystem. It has a smaller market presence, so we do...
What is your primary use case for Sweet Security?
My main use case for Sweet Security as a distributor is to distribute to our partners within the UK channel, and they...
 

Also Known As

Qualys TotalCloud with FlexScan
DivvyCloud
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Sample Customers

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Fannie Mae, 3M, PizzaHut, Spotify, Autodesk, Discovery
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