Qualys CAP for Continuous Asset Inventory, Security and Compliance

Qualys has launched the Qualys Cloud Agent Platform (CAP), a new platform that extends Qualys’ industry-leading Cloud Security and Compliance Platform with Lightweight Agents to continuously Assess security and compliance of Organizations’ global it infrastructure And applications. This new platform Provides organizations with a flexible Solution to assess and address the security And compliance of their it assets in real Time, whether on-premise, cloud-based Or mobile endpoints. “the lack of visibility of the risks within An organization’s global it infrastructure Is a deep concern.

Periodic vulnerability And configuration scans can provide Some visibility but scale creates different Problems. For example scanning a 100,000-node network can potentially Yield millions of findings, which creates Difficulty in prioritizing which vulnerabilities To remediate first. Using a hostbased Scanning approach, delivered as a Service, brings not only real-time information But also can Increase the ability to consume the high levels of data collected,” said Charles Kolodgy, vice president, for IDC.

“Traditional vulnerability scanning methods present a number of challenges for IT security teams who either don’t have the proper credentials, or are scanning assets that aren’t always connected to the local network,” said Philippe Courtot, Chairman and CEO for Qualys . “Qualys Cloud Agent Platform is a game changer and a new paradigm of continuously assessing IT systems. This platform provides our customers with the flexibility and choice they need to conduct real-time vulnerability and compliance management for IT assets whether it’s on-premise, cloud-based or mobile endpoints.” Qualys Cloud Agent Platform is now available for trial on all Windows platforms and will go live on May 15, 2015.