Bringing the Power of SaaS to Security Consultants
Simplify service delivery, minimize costs, and customize reporting for your clients' needs with the new QualysGuard Consultant Edition featuring Virtual Scanners – the most comprehensive and cost-effective solution for consultants to use in their security and compliance engagements.
QualysGuard Consultant Edition is designed for security services organizations, security consultants, and compliance auditors that provide vulnerability assessment, compliance assessment and risk reduction services. Using the power of the SaaS model, QualysGuard Consultant Edition delivers comprehensive security and compliance services – including accurate network auditing, comprehensive vulnerability assessments, policy compliance, web application scanning and data-rich customized reports from a unified SaaS solution.
Introducing QualysGuard Virtual Scanners (Available in Beta)
The new QualysGuard Virtual Scanners (vScanners), available now in beta, allows you to quickly and easily set up vScanners on your laptop or on clients' sites to initiate engagements and perform security assessments. You can also manage multiple vScanners for clients from same QualysGuard subscription, reducing time on site. Register now to try the new vScanner in your QualysGuard consultant subscription.
New Report Customization Options
You can create re-useable report templates inside QualysGuard Consultant Edition for each of your clients automating the creation of engagement reports including customized layouts, free-form content and complete control over included results that are tailored for each of your client’s needs.
New feature to download reports in rich-text format including Microsoft Word gives you full customization control and edit capabilities to deliver custom reports for your clients after each engagement.
Capabilities in One Unified Solution
Accurate Asset Discovery
QualysGuard Consultant Edition rapidly maps all network devices and software applications within a client network, including operating systems, open ports and services.
Comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment
QualysGuard Consultant Edition delivers an extensive library of vulnerability and threat information, including assessments for network devices, databases and web applications, that is correlated with multiple exploit databases, including Core IMPACT, Immunity DSquare and Metasploit.
Automated, Customized Client Reporting
QualysGuard Consultant Edition provides an automated, template-based reporting engine to simplify client reporting and report customization, and it scales to any sized client environment.
Web Application Scanning
QualysGuard Consultant Edition delivers scalable web application scanning to catalog and scan thousands of applications with a high degree of accuracy, which ensures comprehensive coverage and reduces time on-site by minimizing the time required to discover and manage web applications, as well as reducing the effort needed to validate the vulnerabilities identified.
PCI Compliance
QualysGuard Consultant Edition is seamlessly integrated with QualysGuard PCI Compliance, helping companies more easily meet PCI compliance requirements, including Self-Assessment Questionnaires (SAQs) as well as PCI ASV perimeter scans. QualysGuard PCI is used by 68 percent of all ASVs and 46 percent of Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) to help merchants with PCI DSS certification and validation.
Custom Policy Compliance Controls
QualysGuard Consultant Edition allows for custom controls and policies to ensure full coverage of your clients’ infrastructures and that nothing is missed.

