Qualys Container Security (CS) delivers end-to-end container security with continuous visibility, contextual risk prioritization, runtime threat detection, and compliance monitoring across build, deploy, and runtime.
Qualys Container Security delivers comprehensive lifecycle protection for containerized environments, from image build to deployment and runtime, powered by native sensors and the Qualys Enterprise TruRiskâ„¢ Platform. It provides continuous discovery and inventory of container images, registries, and running workloads, with real-time vulnerability, compliance, malware, and secret exposure assessments.
With integrations into CI/CD pipelines, it enables shift-left enforcement through image scanning and admission controls, preventing risky images from reaching production.
At runtime, it monitors file, process, and network activity to detect malware, exposed secrets, and active threats, while correlating container risk with attack paths and cloud blast radius across Kubernetes, Docker, and the broader cloud environments.
By unifying exposure context with runtime signals, Qualys Container Security helps you prioritize exploitable risk and enforce policy-driven security at scale.
Discover and scan containers and images across Kubernetes, Docker, registries, and CI/CD for vulnerabilities, malware, secrets, and SBOM—prioritizing risks in active workloads.
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Combine Attack Path Exposure with TruRisk scoring to focus on the most critical risk combinations. Use dynamic container tagging for resilience at scale.
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Link OS, base image, and open-source package issues to application layers for developer or SecOps ownership. Automate remediation with ServiceNow integration.
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Enforce security early with Admission Controller and CI/CD policies to block unsafe images and configurations before production.
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Secure Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift) by uncovering API, RBAC, and network gaps. Continuously monitor sensitive file access with integrated FIM for PCI 4.0.
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Follow the Container Security Journey to understand how automated assessments and seamless script execution work.
Continuously discover container images, registries, and running containers across Kubernetes clusters, standalone hosts, and serverless environments.
Maintain a real-time inventory with full visibility and asset context across the build, deploy, and runtime stages.
Assess container images and active workloads for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, malware, exposed secrets, and SBOM-related risks using VMDR-grade intelligence enriched by 25+ threat feeds.
Perform agentless, runtime-optimized continuous assessment that dynamically re-evaluates risk as threats evolve.
Prioritize the most critical risks using TruRiskâ„¢ score that incorporates exploitability, exposure, asset criticality, and runtime context with detailed Attack Path insight.
Enforce guardrails by blocking unsafe images and configurations through K8s admission controls pre-deployment.
Continuously monitor containers at runtime using eBPF-powered detection.
Identifies anomalous behavior, policy drift, and active threats across K8s and Docker environments.
Automate remediation workflows through ServiceNow integration.
Generate audit-ready compliance reports to support governance, risk management, and regulatory requirements.
Prerequisites
Before using CS, ensure the application is enabled for your subscription and the required Qualys Cloud Agent version is installed for Windows or Linux.
Learn More →Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
The Qualys Container Security application uses a Role Based Access Control (RBAC) model to control access to Container Security features.
Learn More →Sensor Configuration and Installation
The Qualys Container Security offers various sensors which allow you to scan your environments.
Learn More →Begin your journey with Qualys Container Security. Learn how to scan your containers.
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