Qualys is a established vulnerability and compliance platform. Senserva focuses on Microsoft 365 configuration posture with native Microsoft compliance mapping.
Qualys (VMDR, Policy Compliance) is a long-standing cloud platform for vulnerability management and broad compliance scanning across infrastructure. Senserva is complementary and Microsoft-specialized: it audits Microsoft 365 configuration posture with native MCSB and CISA SCuBA mapping, and verifies patch coverage across Microsoft's APIs.
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Senserva runs standalone for full Microsoft 365 posture across configurations, logs, and CVEs, or right alongside Qualys.
| What Qualys does well | Where teams want more |
|---|---|
| Established cloud vulnerability management (VMDR). | Infrastructure-centric; Microsoft 365 SaaS configuration is not its focus. |
| Broad infrastructure and policy-compliance scanning. | Entra ID, Intune, and Purview posture is shallow compared to a Microsoft-native tool. |
| Large control library across many standards. | Microsoft-specific baselines (MCSB, SCuBA) are not native. |
| Scales across big, mixed environments. | No agentic remediation for Microsoft 365 misconfigurations. |
| Capability | Qualys | Senserva |
|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure vulnerability management | Core strength | Not a vuln scanner |
| M365 configuration posture | Limited | 650+ checks |
| Native MCSB / CISA SCuBA mapping | No | Yes |
| Agentic M365 remediation | No | Yes |
Comparison reflects general capabilities at time of writing and is provided for research. Vendor features change; verify current specifics with each vendor.
Senserva builds a complete, structured Microsoft 365 security dataset, configuration, identity, devices, logs, CVEs, and compliance mappings, as one connected graph, and opens all of it to the AI of your choice through the Claude MCP and the Senserva SDK. Bring your own model, there is no AI markup. Point Claude, or any AI you run, at the whole dataset and it can audit, threat-hunt, explain, and remediate from your real findings, not a vendor summary.
That is the part most tools do not give you. Many have no AI at all, or a closed built-in assistant you cannot point at your own model, or they keep their findings in a dashboard you cannot query. Where a tool does expose its data to your AI, Senserva runs right alongside it and adds the rest of the Microsoft 365 picture. Either way, the data stays with you, nothing is locked in a vendor cloud.
Qualys is a long-established cloud security and compliance platform, best known for VMDR, Vulnerability Management, Detection, and Response. Delivered from the cloud with lightweight Cloud Agents and scanners, it continuously finds and assesses vulnerabilities across hybrid environments.
Qualys spans asset inventory, vulnerability management, policy compliance, patch management, web application scanning, and cloud security from a single agent and console. That breadth makes it a consolidation play for security and compliance teams.
VMDR closes the loop from detecting a vulnerability to prioritizing it with threat intelligence to deploying the patch, aiming to shorten the time between discovery and fix within the Qualys platform.
Qualys centers on vulnerabilities and compliance across infrastructure and endpoints. Deep Microsoft 365 configuration posture, Conditional Access, identity, and workload settings mapped to MCSB and CISA SCuBA, is an adjacent, complementary specialty.
No. Qualys does infrastructure vulnerability and policy compliance; Senserva specializes in Microsoft 365 configuration posture and Microsoft-native compliance mapping.
No agents and no cloud service. Senserva reads your tenant through Microsoft's APIs and runs on Windows or Mac. You can explore the whole product first on the free Advanced Microsoft 365 Security Simulator, with no access to your environment at all.
Yes. The Advanced Microsoft 365 Security Simulator and the game let you explore a full scan, the findings, the AI, and the reports for free. Scanning your own tenant takes a free registration, which unlocks 2 tenants with up to 25 users each, and education institution and nonprofit discounts are available.
Yes. It supports multi-tenant and MSP fleets, with bulk tenant security audits and unified, client-ready reporting across many customers.
Senserva is built for AI from the ground up and also runs fully without it. Turn it on for AI-enhanced reports and to run the product from Claude, or the AI of your choice, via our market-leading MCP. You bring your own model, so there is no AI markup, and the rich data model keeps calls and cost low.
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