Qualys releases Global IT Asset
Inventory (AI) Cloud App
ualys, a pioneer and leading
provider of cloud-based
security and compliance
solutions, has announced general
availability of its groundbreaking global
IT Asset Inventory (AI) Cloud App, which
provides security and IT teams with a
single source of truth to analyse their
complex and interconnected global IT
environments, and collaborate on critical
security remediation efforts.
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Digital Transformation creates complex
IT infrastructure that challenges
organisations to accurately assess their
networks and quickly remediate risk.
Using a combination of Qualys sensors
– Cloud Agents, scanners and passive
network sensors – Qualys AI collects
and analyses data about assets across
hybrid environments and delivers up-
to-date, comprehensive and continuous
information about those assets and their
security and compliance posture.
“Qualys Asset Inventory delivered
immediate value by providing insights
and exponentially accelerating time-
to-decision,” said Sunil Saale, Head
of Cyber and Information Security,
MinterEllison. “It gives us the ability to
see every asset on our network and gives
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• Alerting teams when vulnerable,
end-of-life or unlicensed software
is present
“You simply cannot secure what you do
not know and our new groundbreaking
global IT Asset Inventory cloud app
provides a single source of truth across
on-premises infrastructure, endpoints and
clouds,” said Philippe Courtot, Chairman
and CEO, Qualys, Inc. Qualys AI continuously gathers asset
telemetry to identify and categorise
devices, hardware and software. Both IT
and security teams can then drill down
into the resulting asset details and risk
information to make informed business
decisions. Qualys AI also eliminates the
need to manually integrate disparate
systems or dispute the validity of data
sets, allowing teams to share a common
source of truth, leading to better IT
and security outcomes. Customers can
update their CMDB with detailed asset
data to enable initiatives such as:
“Since it is fully integrated with the
Qualys Cloud Platform, you will know
instantly what assets connect to your
network and be able to assess their
security and compliance posture in
real-time, giving you unprecedented and
essential visibility.”
Continuous risk assessment and
compliance management
A single source of truth to
eliminate blind spots
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With increasing risks, regulations on
security and privacy and software
licensing audits, the role of IT asset
management is neither optional nor the
concern of IT teams alone. Industry
regulations and standards such as
PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR and FedRAMP
require organisations to continuously
identify, track and secure assets storing
sensitive data. Qualys AI frees security
and compliance teams from dependence
on legacy inventory tools and helps
these teams manage the risk profile of
their assets in real-time by:
• Helping ensure no unauthorised
assets are spun-up in production
• Detecting when applications outside
their white-list are running
Such capabilities allow security and
IT teams to quickly identify critical
or potential risks, such as end-of-life
software and work together to remediate
them. For example, a Fortune 50 retailer
now gains full visibility into their global
corporate data centres, multi-cloud
environment as well as stores and
warehouses, providing them new insights
into their complex global environment,
and revealing hidden risk from unknown
devices or end-of-life technology.
us high-fidelity, granular IT asset data
that can be used across IT and security
initiatives, such as monitoring for any
unapproved software and tracking end-
of-life hardware and software that impact
our technology road-maps.”
Philippe Courtot,
Chairman and CEO,
Qualys, Inc
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