The Policy Compliance module with the enhanced user interface is a value addition to your existing Policy Compliance subscription.
The Home page in the enhanced PC user interface lets you have a one-glance perspective of all your assets, know their compliance score, and provides an easy way to start your compliance journey with Qualys Policy Compliance. You can access this page only if you have an active subscription for PC and SCA, and the enhanced PC user interface is enabled for your PC subscription.
The Home page contains the following tabs:
- Establish Asset Scope: Download Qualys Cloud Agent and gain an overview of your asset system and the overall compliance score. This tab highlights the total number of assets and their current compliance score; provides a view of the number of assets with Qualys Agent installed, as well as the number of database assets and middleware assets in your asset system.
- Start Assessment: Quick access to the PC Content Library for out-of-the-box compliance policies, run a check on the compliance posture of your assets, and initiate mandate-based reports from the given links.
- Prioritize and Report: Access the compliance reports from the Report tab of Qualys PC.
SCA Only customers will see the following page listing the many benefits of Policy Compliance. Easily upgrade to Policy Compliance through this page to start taking advantage of the features listed. Use the Send Email option to request a free Policy Compliance trial or to upgrade your subscription today.
Currently, no additional configuration is required from your side to access the new dashboard. Your PC assets/data will be migrated to the enhanced Policy Compliance UI automatically. If your subscription has both PC and SCA, your PC assets/data will be migrated but your SCA assets/data will not be migrated. SCA customers should continue to use their existing dashboard.
With the customizable dashboards and widgets, you can visualize the security compliance posture of your IT infrastructure. Such graphical presentation of compliance data helps you understand of your compliance requirements better and take informed decisions quicker. It's also a smarter and a more convenient way of sharing information with the intended target audience.
Once your data is synced, all the compliance posture records of your assets that you evaluate against the controls in Policy Compliance are displayed in the new Posture tab. This data is synced in the back end and no additional configurations are required.
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Qualys Unified Dashboard (UD) is integrated with Policy Compliance. UD brings information from all Qualys applications into a single place for visualization. UD provides a powerful new dashboarding framework along with platform service that will be consumed and used by all other products to enhance the existing dashboard capabilities.
The Unified Dashboard framework that enables you to use dashboard widgets from other Qualys modules such as VMDR, FIM, and ITAM, among others in a single dashboard.
You can use the default Policy Compliance dashboard provided by Qualys or easily configure widgets to pull information from other modules/applications and add them to your dashboard. You can also add as many dashboards as you like to customize your Policy Compliance view.