Generating Automated Technology Debt Report
Learn more about generating the Technology Debt Report (Tech Debt) and its features and benefits. The Tech Debt report is in PDF format.
Expand the following section to learn the features and benefits of the automated Tech Debt report.
Features and BenefitsFeatures and Benefits
- Communicates a transparent and actionable assessment of your Enterprise’s Tech Debt.
- Highlights risks associated with End-of-Life (EoL) and End-of-Support (EoS) hardware and software with a new executive-ready report.
- Enables you to prioritize and proactively plan upgrades for highly vulnerable End-of-Support software that will not have security patches.
- By fostering a proactive risk management culture and informed decision-making, you can protect your assets and align your security efforts with your overarching business goals.
Who can Generate this Report?
GAV users can generate and download the Tech Debt report, and VMDR customers with GAV can also generate it.
Important to Know!
- You need a super user role within your Qualys subscription with a report generation access to generate the Tech Debt report. Contact your Technical Account Manager (TAM) or Qualys Support for assistance if you don't see the Generate option.
- The automated 'Technology Debt Report' can be generated only once per user for your subscription. If multiple users from your subscription have report generation access, they can generate this report once.
- After you initiate this report generation, your GAV subscription is converted into a CSAM Trial subscription.
Generate TechDebt Report
Complete the following steps to generate the automated TechDebt Report:
1. Go to the Dashboard tab and click Generate to Generate the Tech Debt report.
Important:
- After you click Generate to initiate the 'Technology Debt' report request from the Dashboard tab once, the Generate option is no longer available for the 'Technology Debt' report.
- You can close the banner if you do not want to generate the report immediately. After you close it, the banner is displayed again after 30 days. However, it is displayed again if Qualys introduces a new report within 30 days. If you select the Don't show again checkbox, the banner is displayed only when a new report is introduced.
If you close the banner, you can still generate the report from the Notifications menu.
2. Provide the following details on the Technology Debt Report page:
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Description |
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Assets Last Discovered In |
Select the required time duration, such as Today, Last 24 Hours, and Last 7 days. You can also provide a specific time range. It enables you to customize your Technology Debt report according to the time filter you provide. Note: These selections are made as per the UTC time zone, and the time zone can't be changed. |
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Add recipients to email PDF reports |
- After the Tech Debt report is ready, by default, the notification is sent to the requester's email ID and the registered email ID for the subscription. |
Good to Know!
As mentioned earlier, after you initiate this report generation, your GAV subscription is converted into a CSAM Trial subscription. As a result, if you want to generate the 'Technology Debt' report again, you can use the Technology Debt Report template from the Reports tab.
How to Download the Report?
After you initiate this report generation, you can download this report multiple times from the Notification menu on the UI.
Option 1: In the case of VMDR and GAV, you receive an email notification after the report is generated and ready to download. You can download the report by clicking Download Report from the Notification menu.
Note: The Download Report notification is shown under the Notification menu only for the next 15 days from the day the report generation request is initiated.
Option 2: You also receive an email notification after the report is ready. When you click the Click here link from the email, you are navigated to the CSAM UI. After you enter the username and password, upon successful login, the Technology Debt report is downloaded.
Alternatively, you can download the report from the Reports tab.
Important to Know!
Learn more about the trending widget from the Technology Debt report.
The Technology Debt report PDF includes the trending widget for assets discovered in the last 30 days. It shows precalculated data for the last 90 days trend for assets discovered over the last 30 days and associated with the selected asset tags.
Important: You cannot see the trending widget on the report immediately after you generate it, as the trending counts are collected according to the weekly pre-set schedule, and the weekly scheduled job might not have been triggered for execution. Also, fewer points between 1 and 13 can be seen on the trending widget.
