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Topia’s vast catalog of fully supported Apps and OSes along with its continuous vulnerability detection and prioritization means your patch management efforts are data driven by the latest risk factors.
WHY TOPIA
Competitive Advantages Table
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Vulnerability Scanning
TOPIA is continuously detecting and reporting new vulnerabilities in your environment. Using lightweight agents and an intuitive cloud dashboard, you will always be informed on the current active CVEs in your environment at all times.
PDQ does not include or integrate with any vulnerability scanners. Because of this gap, security teams will not know which vulnerabilities exist in your organization with PDQ alone.
Vulnerability Remediation
TOPIA not only detects vulnerabilities but also has the tools to remediate them. Depending on the nature of the vulnerability, TOPIA has a corresponding mitigation method available.
PDQ offers package deployment and scripting capabilities. The scripting portion does allow for the mitigation of some vulnerabilities that are not guided by vulnerability data and so it is not considered a vulnerability remediation platform.
Patch Management
TOPIA makes patch management easy. OS and 3rd party app patches are automatically aggregated in TOPIA for you and are able to be installed on endpoints through one time patches as well as through automations.
PDQ has basic out of the box patch management though the coverage for apps and OSes is fairly limited leaving a large portion of your business unprotected. You are able to upload patches and deploy them manually but this involves a lot of time and effort from the IT team.
Continuous Assessment
TOPIA’s agents report the latest vulnerability data to a cloud dashboard in real time. Vulnerabilities can be introduced into an environment through a new vulnerability being published, a new app being installed, and new devices joining the network. Not having to wait until the next scheduled scan to detect these is an important component in reducing organizational risk.
As with the lack of vulnerability detection in the first place, PDQ also does not provide any real-time vulnerability detection.
Robust Reporting
TOPIA provides several reporting options so you can choose what works best for your organization. Exporting data to external sources like SIEM, Syslog, Ticketing systems is possible as well as downloading executive and granular technical reports.
PDQ provides various basic reporting options though to fully take advantage of this you will need to upgrade to their higher tier. Additionally their reports will only be intended for technical teams with no options for executive reports and no out of the box options for easy visualizations.
Great Overall Value
All of TOPIAs features are included for one price which is simply based on the number of agents. The reduction in risk and effort required provides partners and end customers with fantastic ROI.
PDQ’s overall scope is very narrow compared to TOPIA. To achieve all that TOPIA does while using PDQ you would need to add several other tools which will increase cost and complexity unnecessarily.
Top Reasons to Choose Topia over PDQ
Real-Time Data
Topia’s continuous vulnerability detection means you will always have an up to date picture of the vulnerabilities in your environment as well as their status. This keeps security teams and management much more informed when compared to traditional, point-in-time scans.
24/7 Security
TOPIA’s patchless protection provides a crucial compensating control for the most vulnerable applications when a patch is not available. This closes yet another gap by providing security where the risk would otherwise need to be accepted.
Precise Prioritization
Using xTags and AI, Topia is able to automatically calculate the likelihood of vulnerability exploit. As risk = likelihood x severity, using these additional data points provides us with intelligent prioritization. IT and Security teams use this to cut through the noise and focus on what matters most.
One Platform
Topia combines Vulnerability management and Patch management into one platform. This allows security and IT teams to easily track vulnerability status and make sure they are remediated in a timely manner.
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