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.
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.
Go to the Dashboard tab and click Generate to download the Tech Debt report.
Who can Generate this Report?
GAV users can generate and download the Tech Debt report, and VMDR customers with GAV can also generate it, provided that they have the report generation access.
After you initiate this report generation, your GAV subscription is converted into a CSAM Trial subscription.
To generate the Tech Debt report, you need a super user role within your Qualys subscription. If you don't see the Generate option, contact your Technical Account Manager (TAM) or Qualys Support for assistance.
Important:
- 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 also generate this report once.
- After the user clicks 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.
- If you want to generate the 'Technology Debt' report again, you can do so from the Reports tab on the UI using the Technology Debt Report template by following the step-by-step process.
How to Download the Report?
The users who initiated this report generation 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. 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.
Option 2: 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. Later, you can download the report from the Reports tab.
