Deploy Sensors
Qualys sensors, a core service of the Qualys Cloud Platform, make extending your security throughout your global enterprise easy. These sensors are remotely deployable, centrally managed, and self-updating. They collect the data and automatically beam it up to the Qualys Cloud Platform, which has the computing power to continuously analyze and correlate the information to help you identify threats and eliminate vulnerabilities. For AWS, the sensors come as virtual appliances in the form of AMI & lightweight agents.
You need to deploy sensors prior to scanning. Depending on your preference, you could deploy a virtual scanner appliance or Qualys Cloud Agent. Let’s go through the steps involved in deploying these sensors.