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Tenable versus Qualys

Four times as many customers choose Tenable over Qualys.1

Why? The company’s vision, product leadership and technology roadmap. Tenable doesn’t just focus on software vulnerabilities impacting your IT assets. The Tenable One platform extends into cloud misconfigurations, operational technology (OT), identity systems and external assets.

4x, which represents that four times as many customers choose Tenable over Qualys

Why customers choose Tenable over Qualys

Coverage and accuracy

As of October 2024, Tenable Research has published over 222K plugins covering over 91K CVEs, and we update and publish vulnerability coverage and zero-day research at tenable.com/plugins

91 K

Vulnerabilities assessed with 223,000+ plugins

545

Vulnerabilities disclosed since January 2019

< 24 hrs

Median time for coverage of high profile issues

"We compared [Tenable and Qualys], and we realized the results were different. Tenable would find critical vulnerabilities while Qualys wouldn't."
Network security engineer at the Canadian retail company3

Vision beyond vulnerability management

Tenable has broadened its traditional vulnerability management strengths, adding: external attack surface management (EASM), cloud security, industrial OT security, and identity systems/Active Directory (AD) security. Tenable has the best coverage across the entire attack surface.

“When it came to operational technology …that's where Tenable won… When it comes to the cloud area, Tenable was by far the best solution of the finalists.”

Vulnerability management architect at the German manufacturing company2

Qualys lacks the capability to see Active Directory and Entra ID environments missing rich context into user behavior.

Vulnerability management innovation

Introduced in 2024, Vulnerability Intelligence offers granular intelligence on vulnerabilities, including tracking vulnerability history to see changes over time.

Exposure Response enables customers to uniquely track risk remediation with SLAs, instead of relying on cumulative risk scores. Tenable provides a single end-to-end workflow and takes a risk-based approach regardless of patch availability.

Qualys Threat Protection requires a complicated query language to scope the work. Qualys offers a reporting widget only, while Exposure Response is an end-to-end workflow.4

View inside Tenable Exposure Response showing CISA known exploitable vulnerabilities on critical assets

Professional services, customer success and support

Tenable offers expert professional services.

Dedicated customer success team for each customer.

Tenable offers advanced levels of support to enterprises, including Premier and Elite support.

Some customers report longer wait times and slower issue resolution from Qualys support services.

Qualys does not offer professional services.

Qualys customers are left with limited support from their technical account manager (TAM) who often handles multiple customers stretching their resources and time thin.

Hexagon containing the number 1, because Tenable is number 1 in vulnerability management

Leader in compliance

Tenable leads Qualys in CIS benchmark coverage - 231 total (84%).

Tenable has hundreds of frameworks and directives to help your organization stay secure and in compliance.

The best part? There is no extra charge.

82 %

CIS Benchmarks

100 K

audit checks

1297

audits published

Qualys’s Policy Compliance module is a standalone module sold separately.5

“When we go into policies for cloud systems, that's where Tenable definitely shined. Throughout [the POC], they [Tenable] were able to find 25% more [than Qualys].”
Vulnerability management architect at the German manufacturing company6

Compare Tenable to Qualys

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Overall asset coverage

Wide variety of assets: endpoints, network devices, operational technology (OT), identity systems, cloud workloads, web apps

Lacks coverage for operational technology (OT) devices, Active Directory (AD) and Entra ID

Cloud security identity protection

Fully operational, industry-leading CIEM protecting customers today

Still in the early stages of introducing this critical capability

Exposure management analytics

Tenable One is an exposure management platform that combines integrated risk metrics across vulnerability management, web app security, cloud, identity, OT and ASM

Not offered

Internal and peer benchmarking

Enables organizations to benchmark themselves internally and against industry peers

Not offered

Vulnerability Intelligence

Provides rich vital context on any given vulnerability including exploitation likelihood and potential impact

Lacks a robust vulnerability database with enriched metadata and advanced search/filtering capabilities

Patch management and remediation

Integration and support for the leading third-party remediation tools, remediation workflow

Partial patch management integrated with VMDR; no support for popular remediation tools like BigFix

Partner ecosystem

Partner-first with 125 partners and 250 pre-built integrations7

Channel partners contribute to 46% of Qualys revenue8

Professional services and support

Advanced levels of support, including Premier and Elite, as well as professional services

Does not offer professional services and limited support from an overstretched TAM

#1 in vulnerability management

Graph showing strategies and capabilities of IDC Marketscape worldwide risk-based vulnerability management platforms in 2023

IDC ranks Tenable as #1 in worldwide Device Vulnerability Management market share for the sixth consecutive year

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Frost Radar graph showing Tenable as the leader in terms of growth and innovation

Tenable named a leading force in vulnerability management and top-ranked among 13 vendors in the Growth and Innovation indexes in the Frost Radar, Vulnerability Management, 2023

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Cover page of Tenable's competitive guide to vulnerability management comparing Tenable and Qualys

Competitive guide: Security leaders’ guide to comparing Tenable and Qualys

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1 - Tenable source, Qualys source 2 - Internal customer interview 3 - Internal customer interview 4 - Qualys Threat Protection Web page, Dashboards, Data Sheet 5 - Qualys Policy Compliance webpage 6 - Internal customer interview 7 - Tenable blog, Tenable technology partners page 8 - Q2’24 Earnings Call Transcript

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