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Exploit Hound and Qualys
Qualys VMDR on the Enterprise TruRisk Platform combines vulnerability management with native patch management, TruRisk scoring, and a cloud agent alongside virtual scanners and passive network analysis.
Statements about Qualys below are taken from their VMDR with Patch Management page and TruRisk documentation. Verify anything that would decide your purchase directly with them. Oldest check in this comparison: 12 September 2026. Every cell comes from the Qualys Patch Management app page, and each one carries the page it came from and the date that page was read. Vendor capabilities and packaging change frequently; verify anything that would decide a purchase directly with them.
Which one fits
Qualys is the better fit when
You want finding and fixing in one product. VMDR with Patch Management patches Windows, Linux and macOS, mobile devices and third-party applications from a central dashboard, driven by the same prioritization that found the problem. That is a shorter path from detection to resolution than anything we offer, and for a team that owns both jobs it is a strong argument.
Exploit Hound is the better fit when
You want to know which fixes remove the most attack paths before you spend the maintenance window, and you are doing it across many customers through the PSA and RMM you already run.
Capability comparison
| Capability | Exploit Hound | Qualys VMDR |
|---|---|---|
| MSP multi-tenancy | Available | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Internal network assessment | Available | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| External attack surface | Available | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Endpoint agent | Limited scope Linux, Windows and macOS Beta | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Active Directory assessment | Beta no live directory assessed | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Entra ID / M365 assessment | Beta Graph payload mapping unproven | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Google Workspace assessment | Beta built 18 August 2026 | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| EPSS prioritization | Available | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| CISA KEV weighting | Available | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Web application checks | Beta basic checks, not a DAST product | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Full dynamic application security testing | Not available | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Sensitive data discovery | Beta Runs on the OS client over paths an operator configures, and is off until they do. Reports where suspected sensitive… | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Native OS and application patching | Not available | Separate moduleSource and scopeQualys Patch Management Listed as an "Add On" in the Response section rather than part of the base subscription. "Patch Detection" — correlating vulnerabilities with patches — is what VMDR includes. Naming the whole portfolio "VMDR" obscures that split. Vendor documentation · read 2026-09-12 |
| Compliance frameworks | Limited scope six frameworks | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Exposure graph | Available | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Attack path analysis | Available | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Choke point ranking of remediation | Available | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| NetFlow telemetry | Available NetFlow | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Honeypot / deception | Available | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| PSA ticketing integration | Beta HaloPSA, ConnectWise, Autotask, Jira, ServiceNow | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| ITSM ticketing integration | Beta HaloPSA, ConnectWise, Autotask, Jira, ServiceNow | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| RMM remediation orchestration | Beta NinjaOne, Datto, Syncro, N-able | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Remediation verified by re-checking | Available | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Cloud posture assessment | Beta never run against a live account | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Container and Kubernetes security | Not available | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| OT and IoT coverage | Not available | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
| Published price list | Available on the pricing page | Not verifiedSource and scopeNot checked. Only the Patch Management app page has been read, so every other row here is unresearched rather than unavailable. No source read · 2026-09-12 |
How to read this table
Our column comes from the capability registry this whole site is generated from, so it cannot say something different here than on the integrations page. Every Qualys VMDR cell names the product or package it is about, the official page it came from and the date that page was read.
- Available
- Documented by the vendor as part of the named product, with no separate module or tier stated on the page checked.
- Pending approval
- Built, and validated against a live environment, with operator approval for general availability still outstanding. Usable under the terms of a guided evaluation; not yet generally available.
- Separate module
- Documented, and sold or packaged as a different named product from the one this column is about.
- Plan dependent
- Documented as belonging to a higher tier, package or add-on of the same product.
- Beta
- Implemented and available for guided evaluation; production validation is not complete.
- Limited scope
- Present, and narrower than the row's name suggests. The note says how.
- Not available
- The vendor's own documentation states it is not supported, or we have established the product does not do it.
- Not verified
- We have not checked an official source for this row. It is not a claim that the capability is missing.
Not verified is not Not available. An em dash used to mean both, which let an unchecked row read as a missing feature. Where we have not read a vendor page for a row, the cell says so.
Scope for this table: Qualys VMDR, with the Patch Management app where stated. Pages read:
Oldest check in this table: 2026-09-12.
Most rows here say Not verified, and that is the state of our research rather than the state of their product. Qualys is a large platform with many separately named apps, and the only page we have read for this table is the Patch Management app page. Every other row is unresearched. We would rather publish that than a table of guesses with our name on it.
Where Qualys is stronger
- ✓It patches
Qualys sells Patch Management as an add-on to VMDR, described on their own page as deploying patches through the Qualys Cloud Agent; VMDR itself includes patch detection, correlating vulnerabilities with the patches that fix them. We do not patch at all — we submit approved actions to the RMM you already run, and NinjaOne, Datto RMM, Syncro and N-able N-central are implemented, all in beta. This is the single biggest capability gap on our side.
- ✓Detection breadth and research
A much larger signature and detection catalog, maintained by a dedicated research organisation.
- ✓Certificate inventory
Digital certificates are a first-class asset class for them. We see TLS only on services we scan.
- ✓Scale and assurance
Audits, compliance certifications and a global support organisation.
Where Exploit Hound is stronger
This section and the one above it are our judgement, not cell-level research: the sourced claims are in the table, each with the page it came from. Weigh these as opinion and check the table for facts.
- ✓Paths, not just a ranked list
TruRisk ranks findings well. We additionally model how exposures connect, so a recommendation can say which routes to a domain controller a fix removes — and which single choke point removes several at once.
- ✓Identity exposure in the same graph
Active Directory and Entra assessment, with hybrid accounts joined to their on-premises counterparts, so cloud privilege and domain compromise appear on one path.
- ✓Honeypot evidence
Deception telemetry showing which of your services are actually being probed, feeding the same risk model.
- ✓MSP operations
Multi-tenancy, PSA-first ticketing and per-customer policy as the primary design rather than an enterprise deployment pattern.
Can they coexist?
Reasonably well, and better than most pairings on this site. Qualys finds and patches; Exploit Hound decides what to do first and proves it worked. An MSP already running VMDR for patching gets attack paths, identity exposure and multi-tenant operations without giving up the thing Qualys does best.
Migration considerations
Do not migrate off Qualys expecting to keep patching — you would be replacing a patch engine with an RMM integration that currently covers four vendors in beta. Detection breadth would also narrow.
Start with what's actually exposed.
Point Exploit Hound at the assets you are authorized to assess and see the connected picture, ranked by what removes the most exposure.