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AWS CloudTrail vs. Qualys VMDR

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS CloudTrail
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of an AWS account. With CloudTrail, users can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail provides event history of AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services. This event history simplifies security analysis, resource change tracking,…N/A
Qualys VMDR
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Qualys VMDR 2.0 with TruRisk gives enterprises visibility and insight into cyber risk exposure with the goal of 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 its true risk, and track risk reduction over time.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsYou can view, filter, and download the most recent 90 days of your account activity for all management events in supported AWS services free of charge. You can set up a trail that delivers a single copy of management events in each region free of charge. Once a CloudTrail trail is set up, Amazon S3 charges apply based on your usage. You will be charged for any data events or additional copies of management events recorded in that region. In addition, you can choose CloudTrail Insights by enabling Insights events in your trails. CloudTrail Insights analyzes write management events, and you are charged based on the number of events that are analyzed in that region.—
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Threat Intelligence
Comparison of Threat Intelligence features of Product A and Product B
AWS CloudTrail
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Ratings
Qualys VMDR
8.8
5 Ratings
10% above category average
Network Analytics00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
Threat Recognition00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
Vulnerability Classification00 Ratings9.45 Ratings
Automated Alerts and Reporting00 Ratings9.45 Ratings
Threat Analysis00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
Threat Intelligence Reporting00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
Automated Threat Identification00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
Vulnerability Management Tools
Comparison of Vulnerability Management Tools features of Product A and Product B
AWS CloudTrail
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Ratings
Qualys VMDR
8.9
5 Ratings
10% above category average
IT Asset Realization00 Ratings8.75 Ratings
Authentication00 Ratings8.45 Ratings
Configuration Monitoring00 Ratings9.25 Ratings
Web Scanning00 Ratings8.74 Ratings
Vulnerability Intelligence00 Ratings9.45 Ratings
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
AWS CloudTrailQualys VMDR
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(4 ratings)
8.7
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS CloudTrailQualys VMDR
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
It is necessary to enable [AWS] Cloudtrail when using AWS in a production environment, otherwise you will not have any idea what is happening within your accounts. Third party monitoring applications will all require [AWS] CloudTrail to be enabled as well. I would not recommend it solely as a monitoring tool, to get the most out of it you must send the logs elsewhere. Either to Cloudwatch logs or a third party product.
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Qualys
Qualys VMDR is best suited for larger companies with a very large IT asset footprint. Qualys VMDR is not suited for businesses that are small and upcoming as the price for the tool is very expensive and could be a budget sink if not used properly. In our organization we use the Qualys VMDR dashboard and reporting in order to collect any vulnerabilities we miss during our routine audits to ensure that our environment is stable and protected for attacks.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • API Log
  • User activity tracking
  • Real-time alerts
AS
Anton Smyslov
Product Owner
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Qualys
  • vulnerability detection
  • updated CVEs and support from product
  • Reporting
  • Scheduling tasks
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • [In my experience] Cost can easily get out of control with multiple trails on full logging
  • Logs can be difficult to decipher
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Anonymous
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Qualys
  • Front-line technical support
  • A little expensive in comparison with other solutions
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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Qualys
This is iron but I am giving it 5 star and I can give more If I can do because they are best in support. So once you own this product they will assign a dedicated support for you and when you are under the weather with anything just connect them with anything call, ping or ticket they will come like Genie.
Varun Khare | TrustRadius Reviewer
Varun Khare
Senior Analyst
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
I think in the end, CloudTrail has more features and you can dive deeper inside the logs so it depends on your usage and what you expect in the end to make the right choice, I would say that both tools are really useful and bring a lot of benefits to I.T. companies.
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Qualys
Qualys VMDR was selected against competitors because of the depth of insight the platform provides. When stacked against other competitors, platforms like Syxsense couldn't produce the same level on insight and reporting like how Qualys VMDR does. Qualys VMDR also does a great job at gathering information about the latest security definitions and using those to analyze our environment to alert of any vulnerabilities. Something that Syxsense couldn't.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Allows us to investigate any strange api actions
  • Increases security
  • Audit trail of changes made in AWS
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Anonymous
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Qualys
  • Faster patching
  • Easy reports for multiple teams to work in coordination
  • Solutions to patch vulnerabilities
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Anonymous
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ScreenShots

AWS CloudTrail Screenshots

Screenshot of CloudTrail Insights: Identify and respond to unusual operational activity •Unexpected spikes in resource provisioning •Bursts of IAM management actions •Gaps in periodic maintenance activity •Automatic analysis of API calls and usage patterns •Alerts when unusual activity is detected