An unprecedented level of visibility and a single point of reference for IT and security team.
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), the pioneer and leading provider of security and compliance solutions based on the cloud, making it available on the market Global IT Asset Inventory solution (AI), a revolutionary cloud app that serves as a data center, and that the IT team, and enterprise level security can be used for the analysis of complex and interconnected IT environments, allowing them also to share the most critical decisions for the actions of remediation.
Digital transformation has made the management of IT infrastructures more complex to the point that organizations have difficulty both monitoring networks and quickly countering risks. Thanks to a combination of sensors, such as cloud agents, scanners and passive network sensors, Qualys AI collects data on resources located in hybrid environments, analyzes it and prepares complete and updated information on the devices used and their security and compliance status. This functionality allows IT teams to quickly identify any actual or potential risk, such as discontinued software, and proceed with its elimination.
A company that deals with retail inserted in the Fortune 50 list, for example, now enjoys complete visibility into their enterprise data center, the shops, the warehouses and the entire multicloud global environment, being able to detect hidden risks related to new devices or technology that is being disposed of.
“Qualys Asset Inventory immediately revealed its usefulness by bringing to our attention detailed information that allows us to exponentially accelerate the times of our decisions” said Sunil Saale, Head of Information Security and Cybersecurity at MinterEllison. “We can now supervise all IT assets on the network, obtaining accurate, effective and reliable data that we can use across our IT and security initiatives, quickly identifying unauthorized software and monitoring decommissioned hardware and software that could damage our technology roadmap.”
“Because we can't secure what we don't know, with our revolutionary new Global IT Asset Inventory cloud App, we've created a single point of reference for all data across local infrastructure, endpoints and clouds,” said Philippe Courtot, President and CEO of Qualys. “Because it is fully integrated with the Qualys Cloud Platform, the customer will immediately know which assets are connected to the network and will be able to evaluate the security and compliance status of each in real time, enjoying an unprecedented level of essential visibility.”
Rating continuing risks and compliance management
Given the ever-increasing number of risks, the need to comply with security and privacy regulations, and software compliance checks, IT asset management is not an optional task, nor is it a responsibility of IT teams alone . To comply with the requirements of certain regulations and industry standards, such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR and FedRAMP, organizations must be able to continuously identify, track and protect assets where sensitive data is stored.
Qualys AI allows teams that deal with security and compliance to abandon the traditional inventory tools providing functions to manage the risk profile of the resources in real time. For example:
• Check that they are not put into production unauthorized resources.
• Detects the execution of applications not included in the whitelist.
• Warn the teams of the vulnerable software presence, end of life or without a license.
single reference point to eliminate blind spots
Qualys AI collects on a continuous telemetry data with which identifies and categorizes the devices, the hardware modules and software. The IT and security team can access these detailed data on resources and information on the risks to make more informed business decisions.
As it is eliminated the need to manually integrate disparate systems and to question the validity of the data sets, with Qualys AI teams share a common reference point with which to get the best results regarding safety and IT. Customers can upgrade their configuration management database (CMDB) by including detailed data on resources to enable ITIL initiatives such as:
• reduction of the cost of the infrastructure IT
• enterprise architecture
• migration to the cloud and data center
• Service Management
The app Qualys certified CMDB synchronization for ServiceNow supports two-way synchronization of information on resources.
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