- Why do you do vulnerability management
- What are the main elements of vulnerability management process
- How do you do vulnerability assessment and why it is important
- What are the stages of vulnerability management
- How Runecast enables vulnerability management and assessment
- See Runecast Vulnerability management in action
Runecast vs Qualys
Choose conciseness and cost-efficiency over a fragmented multi-modular solution

Boost your teams' performance by providing an easy-to-use platform
Qualys requires several steps to get to CVE details. Users must spend a lot of time effectively configuring the platform and installing agents to get reliable and consistent results.
Runecast requires one click to gain insights. Thanks to its intuitive user interface, users can quickly start managing and fixing issues with no learning curve.
Adopt a one-platform approach for complete visibility and cost-efficiency
Qualys follows a modular approach that requires customers to pay additional costs to get advanced risk prioritization, container discovery, and image or cloud security assessment.
Runecast offers infrastructure inventory, vulnerability scanning, advanced risk assessment, security compliance checks, container security and best practices under a single license payment.


Keep up to date with the latest industry best practices to avoid performance and security issues
Qualys doesn´t support industry best practices checks, aside from key information on avoiding security gaps in your infrastructure.
Runecast’s AI engine audits your AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, OS and VMware environments against industry and vendor best practices, allowing organizations to avoid downtime or performance and security issues, as well as unnecessary payments to cloud providers.
Prioritize what matters most and get the context to effectively cut down risk
Qualys prioritizes alerts by the vulnerability score (CVSS) with no guidance on which items present the largest risk. To get help with basic prioritization tasks users must purchase a separate module.
Runecast identifies and labels issues based on a combination of values such as configuration settings, vulnerabilities or log patterns, which helps to better categorize risks.

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Organizations demand technology solutions that drive transparency of cybersecurity risks. Runecast supports Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance teams with full visibility of their infrastructure and proactive remediation mechanisms all in a single dashboard.
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Issue Prevention Made Easy
Issue prevention is the practice of predicting the future. People have told you that this is difficult or maybe even impossible, but in the realm of computing it’s not. Predicting the future seems impossible as it is full of so many unknowns, but issue prevention is not dealing with unknowns. Issue prevention is about anticipating potential issues and removing them completely. While running IBM’s VMware Center of Excellence our co-founders experienced that 90% of all VMware problems are caused by known issues and risky configurations that could have been prevented. So how can we prevent them?

Vulnerability Management with Runecast
Vulnerability management is the continuous process of detecting and remediating known vulnerabilities that could be a threat and pose a risk for your environment. These vulnerabilities are discovered by vendors themselves, and require organizations to patch their environments before any cyber attack happens. Vulnerability management calls for a more proactive approach—to identify vulnerabilities as soon as they are uploaded in vendor databases.

Securing K8s with CIS
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) has developed a massive range of security standards. These Benchmarks cover a variety of technologies, ranging from physical hardware to operating systems like Windows and Linux, cloud providers like GCP, AWS or Azure, and even objects like printers and mobile devices. The chances are, if you’re looking for vendor-agnostic security standards, CIS has something for you.

Reducing Operational Complexity
An overview of challenges with virtualization for all business sizes (e.g. interdependence, volume of Knowledge Base articles, reactive fault resolution) as well as the simplest means to address such challenges proactively and effectively, via automated scanning, log monitoring/analysis and security compliance checks.
Check out this informative white paper by top technical author Alastair Cooke!
- Without being able to proactively identify potential issues, resolution is inherently reactive and outages are just a matter of when
IT admins cannot physically do what an automated tool can do – e.g. read and memorize +30K KB articles, Best Practices, etc., to find all possible misconfigurations and security gaps - A simple solution exists and typically provides ROI from the very first scan
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Reducing Attack Surface with Runecast Vulnerability Assessment
Download our solution brief now to gain a deeper understanding of the Assess phase in vulnerability management, and learn how to effectively evaluate the cyber exposure of all your assets and identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other security health indicators.