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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Qualys VMDR

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AQualys 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

    Zabbix

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AZabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. It includes prebuilt official and community-developed templates for integrating with networks, applications, and endpoints, and can automate some monitoring processes.N/A
    Pricing
    Qualys VMDRZabbix
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Qualys VMDRZabbix
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Qualys VMDRZabbix
    Threat Intelligence
    Comparison of Threat Intelligence features of Qualys VMDR and Zabbix
    Feature
    Qualys VMDR
    8.4
    7 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Zabbix
    -
    Ratings
    Network Analytics7.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Recognition8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Classification9.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Alerts and Reporting9.27 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Analysis8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Intelligence Reporting8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Threat Identification8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management Tools
    Comparison of Vulnerability Management Tools features of Qualys VMDR and Zabbix
    Feature
    Qualys VMDR
    8.8
    7 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Zabbix
    -
    Ratings
    IT Asset Realization9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Authentication8.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Configuration Monitoring9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Scanning8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Intelligence9.27 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Qualys VMDRZabbix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.6
    (7 ratings)
    8.3
    (28 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    5.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Qualys VMDRZabbix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Zabbix
    Zabbix is great for monitoring your servers and seeing alerts when the system uses too much CPU or memory. This allowed the system Engineer to be proactive and add resources to these systems to avoid interrupting the services. Especially servers running operations applications and services. This is one of the best usages for Zabbix.
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    Pros
    Qualys
    • Seamless reporting across the different widgets (i.e. TruRisk)
    • DEEP-DIVE into an asset's info/vulns
    • Baked-in PCI ASV scans that a Qualys QSA can approve
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    Zabbix
    • Collecting hardware data - CPU, Memory, Network, and Disk Metrics are collected and reported on.
    • Flexible design - It is very easy to build out even very large environments via the templating system. You can also start where you are - network monitoring, server monitoring, etc. and then build it out from there as time and resources permit.
    • Provides a "plugin architecture" (via XML templates) to allow end users to extend it to monitor all kinds of equipment, software, or other metrics that are not already added into the software already.
    • Very complete documentation. Almost every aspect of Zabbix has been documented and reported on.
    • Cost - Zabbix is FOSS software and always free. Support is reasonably priced and readily available.
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    Cons
    Qualys
    • Qualys VMDR can definitely improve on its reporting of assets as we have caught devices not captured in the Qualys VMDR scans.
    • We would like to see an improvement on the dashboard interface as it is faulty sometimes.
    • Qualys VMDR should focus on more competitive pricing as it is very expensive.
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    Zabbix
    • Creating an alert & its trigger can be made easier.
    • More VM-based data collection counters should be introduced to have better VM monitoring.
    • The raw counters collection agent in every node is relatively weak. It goes down often, which needs more stability.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Qualys
    Next to Veeam (which is a tremendous product for backup/DR) this is the best service/software I have used in the past three decades. Should be called the Swiss Army Knife of security.
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    Zabbix
    It is free. It didn't cost anything to implement (other than my time and the cost incurred for it) and it is filling a badly needed gap in our IT infrastructure. Support is available if we have issues and can be done annually or paid for on a per incident basis as needed. Expansion, updates, and all other future lifecycle activities are likewise free of cost, so as long as someone is able to implement/maintain the software (and the OSS project is maintained) then I imagine the company will never leave it.
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    Usability
    Qualys
    infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities
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    Zabbix
    I think every organization, especially the IT department, needs a tool like this. I know of another product like Zabbix that gives a similar or the same solution, but its range makes it very useful. You can see almost all the device info in one place: disk usage, disk space, network usage, etc.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Qualys
    Always available with the exception on maint windows
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    Zabbix
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Qualys
    Once in a while it would be slow -
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    Zabbix
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    Support Rating
    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.
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    Zabbix
    The setup is the most time-consuming portion of using zabbix. It takes a lot of effort to shape it into a usable format and even then it can get very messy. It's not exactly intuitive and as mentioned the UI seems a bit antiquated. If I was to roll out a monitoring solution from scratch, I'd probably look for alternatives which are easier to use and maintain.
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    Implementation Rating
    Qualys
    Not really - the integrations via connectors is not heavy lifting. Any complexity has to do with a service that requires more steps (i.e. AWS/GCP)
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    Zabbix
    We are a mainly Windows environment, so it would be useful if we could have used Active Directory to deploy agents. As of version 4.2, Zabbix has announced a new agent MSI file to allow exactly that. Unfortunately, we didn't have that option. Also, for Linux and MAC deployments, there is no simple way to deploy that. Using remote scripts you may be able to create something, but most places will opt for either SNMP (agentless) or manual installation of agents to add to Zabbix. A way of deploying agents via discovery would go a long way to helping in the adoption of the tool.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Qualys
    It is a very similar tool but Qualys VMDR is much better when it comes to reporting and solutions provided. Asset management is really good in Qualys VMDR. Qualys VMDR support is really quick , you can get a TPM if you run into any issues. Qualys VMDR has wide variety of scanning options which lacks in tenable.
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    Zabbix
    We're using the Solarwinds suite as our global monitoring standard, but it is very complex and its licensing model makes it difficult to monitor a wide range of technologies. So, we're using Zabbix as a complement on our monitoring process. Zabbix is a way more flexible and has free integrations to a wide range of technologies. It is also more 'user friendly' and easy to manage.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Qualys
    MOSTLY good - but as noted having all features purchased on portal only - nothing that is not purchased.
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    Zabbix
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Qualys
    Outside some pretty arcane apps or OS this is painless. The problem - and self-inflicted - is that older stuff is not supported.
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    Zabbix
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    Return on Investment
    Qualys
    • Cut down on manual efforts to investigate or remediate vulnerabilities, which can be a big driver of ROI
    • Avoidance of potential incidents with upfront risk mitigation
    • Patching efficiency gains
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    Zabbix
    • Good ROI when trying to get ahead of network related problems instead of waiting for users to complain
    • Good ROI when doing upgrades or exploratory work on a neglected network
    • Good ROI when showing usage trends to management showing higher actual usage versus what was thought to be happening
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