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Policy Audit

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This training course provides a focused understanding of Policy Audit using the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform. Participants will learn how to assess and enforce compliance across their IT environment by leveraging the controls, configuring audit policies, running scans, generating meaningful reports, and remediating identified issues. The course is designed to help organisations simplify compliance and “Stay always audit ready”.

Course Objectives

By completing this course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • Understand the role of Policy Audit in the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform.

  • Learn how to utilize the Control Library.

  • Configure and manage audit policies tailored to compliance requirements.

  • Perform compliance scans to assess security posture. Generate meaningful and actionable compliance reports.

  • Identify and remediate policy violations effectively.

  • Adopt a proactive, continuous audit readiness approach aligned with industry standards.

Agenda

  1. Policy Audit Overview

  2. Qualys Control Library

  3. Compliance Scanning

  4. Policies

  5. Posture and Dashboard

  6. Policy and Mandate Reports

  7. Working with Exceptions

  8. Remediation using Audit Fix

Hands-on labs or lab simulation will cover the following topics to complement the coursework:

  1. File Content Check UDC

  2. Registry Value Content Check UDC

  3. WMI Query Check UDC

  4. Authentication Records

  5. Custom Compliance Profile

  6. Launch Compliance Scan

  7. Import Policy from Library

  8. Create Empty Policy

  9. Evaluate Compliance Posture

  10. Create Policy Report

  11. Requesting Exceptions/Interactive Reports

  12. Working With Exception Requests

  13. Remediation using Audit Fix

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