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Qualys Cloud Agent.

A single agent for real-time, global visibility and response.

Over 85 million Cloud Agents actively deployed across the globe

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Install anywhere with minimal impact, and stay updated in real-time

IBM Security

Qualys Cloud Agent revealed that a tiny fraction of our desktops accounted for around 50 percent of our critical vulnerabilities—enabling us to obtain a dramatic improvement in our overall security posture for relatively little effort.

Eddie Dynes Information Security and Compliance Manager at London Gatwick Airport
Children's Mercy Kansas City

Qualys Cloud Agents really impressed us and were one of the main factors that led us to VMDR. The agents are extremely lightweight, use a tiny amount of CPU resources, and don't require system reboots. Today, we’ve pushed the agents out to 13,000 endpoints and servers, which deliver fine-grained vulnerability and configuration management insights every four hours helping us pinpoint zero-days and other critical threats faster.

Akshay Borla Security Engineer - Vulnerability Management at Children's Mercy Kansas City

Beyond traditional network scanning and response

Qualys Cloud Agents work where it’s not possible or practical to do network scanning. They’re our preferred method for assets like dynamic IP client machines, remote/roaming users, static and ephemeral cloud instances, and systems sensitive to external scanning. Qualys Cloud Agents continuously collect data from across your entire infrastructure and consolidate it in the Qualys Cloud Platform for you to view. Our Cloud Agents also allow you to respond to issues quickly. Whether it’s killing processes, quarantining files or endpoints, patching vulnerabilities, removing exploits, fixing misconfigurations, or uninstalling software, our singular agent can do it all.

Enhanced visibility

You can’t secure what you can’t see or don’t know. Deploying Qualys Cloud Agents provide organizations with real-time visibility of their global IT assets – regardless of location – illuminating the dark places within their networks, and providing actionable intelligence and response capabilities.

Installs everywhere

Quickly deploy our lightweight Cloud Agents to achieve real-time, fully authenticated IT, security, and compliance of your physical assets – like laptops, desktops, servers, tablets, smartphones, and OT devices. Qualys Cloud Agents also protect cloud, on-premises virtual environments, and even bare metal environments. Cloud workloads, VDI, public/private clouds, Kubernetes, and Docker are all supported. Flexible installation options make it easy to include the agent in master server, Docker/Kubernetes, and Virtual Disk Images (VDIs). Cloud Agents run on all major desktop and mobile device operating systems. There is no need for complex credential and firewall management. The Cloud Agent only communicates outbound to the Qualys platform.

Enterprise scalability

With tens of millions of agents deployed worldwide, Qualys Cloud Agents are built for scale. A true, single-agent architecture keeps the Qualys Cloud Agent smaller and more powerful than other multi-agent solutions. Rolling out additional IT, security, and compliance capabilities across global hybrid-IT environments can be achieved seamlessly without the burden of adding and managing additional single-purpose agents. Qualys Cloud Agents work with Asset Management, Vulnerability Management, Patch Management, EDR, Policy Compliance, File Integrity Monitoring, and other Qualys apps.

Beyond vulnerability management!

Qualys Cloud Agents do more than just identify critical and zero-day vulnerabilities; they gather local asset management information like application inventories, scan for vulnerabilities in low bandwidth situations, ensure policy compliance with a remote workforce, respond with decisive actions via EDR, and keep systems up to date with Patch Management – regardless of location. Qualys Cloud Agents also provide fully authenticated on-asset scanning, with enforcement, where it’s not possible or practical to perform network scans.

Extend coverage with Qualys Gateway Service (QGS)

Hard-to-achieve visibility

Qualys Gateway Service lets your organization utilize Qualys Cloud Agents in secured environments. It securely extends the power of Qualys Cloud Platform into highly locked-down data centers, industrial networks, OT environments, and anywhere direct Internet access is restricted. It does this through virtual appliances managed from the Qualys Cloud Platform.

Cost-effective

Together, Qualys Cloud Agent and Qualys Gateway Service provide an easily optimized, bandwidth-efficient platform. Qualys QGS eliminates the cost and complexity of deploying, managing, maintaining, and securing third-party proxies and web gateways for cloud agent installations at scale. It also creates a local cache for downloaded content from Qualys Cloud Agents such as manifests, updates, etc., and stores patches when used with Qualys Patch Management.

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Qualys Cloud Agents are lightweight and work across Qualys’ natively built IT, security, and compliance apps

Qualys Cloud Agents
Qualys Cloud Agent: Dashboard view | Qualys

Qualys Global AssetView

Knowing what’s on your global hybrid-IT environment is fundamental to security. Qualys Cloud Agents are the workhorse behind our Global AssetView (GAV) solution. They continuously monitor assets for real-time, detailed information that’s constantly transmitted to the Qualys Cloud Platform for analysis.

  • Installed Cloud Agents provide the ability to determine the security and compliance posture of each asset

  • Continuously monitor assets for the expired licensees, out-of-date operating systems, application versions, expired or soon-to-be-expired certificates, and more

  • Cloud Agents keep your inventory always up to date even when assets are offline

  • Know the location of your devices and when they access or leave the network

  • Asset Inventory Cloud Agents are Free!

Qualys Cloud Agent: Dashboard view | Qualys
Qualys VMDR Prioritization: Asset Tags view | Qualys

Qualys Vulnerability and Patch Management

The Qualys Cloud Agent brings additional real-time monitoring and response capabilities to the vulnerability management lifecycle.

  • Get 100% coverage of your installed infrastructure

  • Eliminate scanning windows

  • Continuously monitor assets for the latest operating system, application, and certificate vulnerabilities

  • Track critical patches that are missing on each device and deploy patches in real-time

  • Requires no credential management or complex firewall profiles

  • Improved Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) due to easier agent deployments and reduced maintenance

  • Improved flexibility and reduced overhead as the Qualys Cloud agent can perform both vulnerability and patch management functions

Qualys VMDR Prioritization: Asset Tags view | Qualys
Qualys Policy Compliance: Dashboard view | Qualys

Qualys Policy Compliance & File Integrity Monitoring

Cloud agents improve overall policy compliance efforts by providing the ability to perform configuration checks on endpoint systems, which is extremely difficult to do using traditional network scanning solutions.Qualys Cloud Agents are lightweight

  • Continuously evaluate in real-time all relevant asset security misconfigurations against standards and benchmarks such as PCI DSS, CIS, ISO, HIPAA, and more

  • Continuously log and track unauthorized changes to files across global IT systems

  • Automatically maintain up-to-date data without credential management or complex firewall remote access

Qualys Policy Compliance: Dashboard view | Qualys
Qualys EDR: Kill Process window | Qualys

Qualys Endpoint Detection and Response

Qualys Cloud Agents continuously collect and stream multi-vector endpoint data to the Qualys Cloud Platform, where the data is correlated, enriched, and prioritized. This provides security professionals with the intelligent context they need to respond to threats quickly and effectively.

  • Cloud Agents provide immediate access to endpoints for quick response

  • Kill processes, quarantine files, uninstall compromised applications, remove exploits, and fix misconfigurations – the Cloud Agent can do it all!

Qualys EDR: Kill Process window | Qualys
Qualys Cloudview: Cloud Dashboard view | Qualys

Qualys Cloud and Container Security

The Cloud Agent architecture greatly simplifies asset discovery, tracking, and compliance monitoring in containers and highly dynamic cloud environments like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

  • Embed Qualys Cloud Agents into the master images of your cloud servers

  • Cloud Agents automatically register, self-update, and track new instances created from the master images

  • Cloud Agents eliminate the need for separate discovery mechanisms

  • Continuous scanning with Cloud Agents removes the need to constantly spawn scanners for new instances

  • Cloud Agents keep your information always up to date even when virtual workloads are offline

  • Qualys Cloud Agents provide up-to-date cloud service provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) metadata

Qualys Cloudview: Cloud Dashboard view | Qualys

Share data with third-party tools

All the data collected by the Qualys Cloud Agent installed in an IT environment resides within the Qualys Cloud Platform. Qualys’ extensive and easy-to-use XML API makes integrating your data with third-party tools easy. Some of the third-party products that have Qualys integrations are the following:

  • Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) products
  • Big data analytics platforms
  • Configuration management databases (CMDBs)
  • Help desk systems

See for yourself. Try Qualys Today.

Start your trial today. No software to download or install. Email us or call us at 1 (800) 745-4355.

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