VIDEO: Qualys Review: Features, Pros, and Cons

qualis is a cloud-based vulnerability management tool that identifies threats and vulnerabilities on your network and offers features for patching and quarantining if you're looking for a vulnerability management tool you'll want to consider qualis but if you're in a rush we can help use our product selection tool at technologyadvice.com to get a free list of security software recommendations click the link in the description below to get started the qualis cloud platform is a software as a service tool that constantly scans your network to find hidden threats and vulnerabilities the system works for a variety of environments including cloud on-premise and hybrid networks in addition to infrastructure assets qualis also monitors web applications and endpoints on your network to help protect you against security threats patch management features let you deploy software updates for at-risk assets directly from qualis and the system also lets you create and enforce policies to remain compliant with internal standards and government regulations qualis offers a free trial and is priced depending on which cloud platform apps you want to use and the number of ip addresses web apps and user licenses you need qualis is an end to end system that comes with a number of features for protecting you against cyber threats qualis cloud platform automatically scans your it infrastructure to identify and catalog both known and unknown devices this includes servers databases and storage units grabbing information like installed software traffic software licenses and vulnerabilities you can see all of this information displayed in a dashboard where you can customize widgets and filter by time period some basic widgets will visualize your top client hardware operating system distribution and top server operating systems vulnerability management lies at the heart of the qualis cloud platform once the system identifies your it assets it scans them to identify and analyze vulnerabilities and misconfigurations you get a prioritized list of vulnerabilities by greatest risk and you can deploy patches and take steps for remediation right from this system just like the infrastructure asset monitoring feature you can see a snapshot of vmdr through a customizable dashboard this lets you see stats like total open vulnerabilities for a certain time frame vulnerabilities by type and vulnerabilities by severity qualis lets you generate reports on the various ip addresses you track these can include routers switches firewalls servers workstations and databases you can run on-demand reports manually or schedule them to run on a set cadence reports can take some time to generate so qualis will notify you by email when a report finishes there are a number of different reports to choose from but some standard reports include patch reports scorecard reports high severity reports and authentication reports finally qualis also sends alerts and notifications to let you know about new vulnerabilities and significant changes to your network the system sends email alerts and notifications within the app according to your notification preferences this feature is highly customizable and qualis can send notifications whenever it detects new vulnerabilities when it identifies new ports and services and when domain certificates expire cloud platform is a top rated vulnerability management tool that wins points for fast deployment continuous monitoring and ease of use and being a sas tool that doesn't require space on any of your own servers that being said it can be a costly solution depending on the number of ip addresses you need to monitor and while it offers a good user experience scans can sometimes take a long time to complete still not sure if qualis is right for you use our product selection tool to get a free list of security software recommendations click the button on the left to get started

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