Qualys TotalCloud vs Sonrai Cloud Permissions Firewall

Qualys TotalCloud is a cloud-native application protection platform for multi-cloud and container environments. It covers AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure through a single license, control plane, and TruRisk score. Its security domains include CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, CDR, Kubernetes and container security, IaC, SSPM, DSPM, and AI-SPM. TruRisk prioritizes verified, attackable exposures using exploitability, threat intelligence, asset criticality, and runtime context. FlexScan offers agentless, agent-based, network, and pipeline scanning. QFlow provides more than 300 automated playbooks and integrates with ServiceNow, Jira, SIEM, and SOAR platforms. Qualys says TotalCloud can assess cloud resources, including transient and ephemeral resources, in under 10 minutes. It also manages SaaS security posture for Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Zoom, and Google Workspace. Pre-built policy frameworks include CIS, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and NIST. A free license with limited API calls for control evaluation is listed; subscription pricing is available on request.

Sonrai Cloud Permissions Firewall monitors privileged permissions for identities across AWS, Azure and GCP. It covers human users, service principals, agents and managed identities, removing sensitive permissions that are no longer used, quarantining inactive role assignments and enforcing default deny. Permissions on Demand routes restricted-access requests through approval in ChatOps and updates the policy afterward. The web service uses read-only, top-level cloud access to collect metadata and does not install cloud agents. Onboarding occurs at the AWS, Azure or GCP organisation level, bringing in every account, subscription or project; controls can then be applied selectively. Sonrai describes unified enforcement and one audit trail across the three clouds. Available options include integrations with Slack, Teams and email, enterprise SSO, just-in-time access, third-party access lockdown, identity quarantine and other remediation controls. Support is provided by email, phone and chat. A 14-day trial requires a business email. Plans list $150 a month for 10–50 accounts and $15,000 a year for startup pricing; 50+ accounts use custom pricing.