Qualys Container Sensor

The Container Security sensor is designed for native support of Docker environments. The sensor is packaged and delivered as a Docker Image. Download the image and deploy it as a Container alongside with other application containers on the host.

The sensor is docker based and can be deployed on hosts in your data center or cloud environments like AWS ECS. Sensor currently is only supported on Linux Operating systems and requires a docker daemon of version 1.12 and higher to be available.

Since they are docker based, the sensor can be deployed into orchestration tool environments like Kubernetes, Mesos or Docker Swarm just like any other application container.

Upon installation, the sensor does automatic discovery of Images and Containers on the deployed host, provides a vulnerability analysis of them, and additionally it monitors and reports on the docker related events on the host. The sensor lists and scans registries for vulnerable images. The sensor also performs compliance assessments. The sensor container runs in non-privileged mode. It requires a persistent storage for storing and caching files.

Currently, the sensor only scans Images and containers. To get a vulnerability posture on the Host, you would require Qualys Cloud Agents or a scan through Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance.