Release 4.1: AWS

January 10, 2025 (Updated on January 31, 2025)

 The operating system for Virtual Scanner cannot be upgraded. You need to replace the scanner image or deploy a new scanner with the latest image, although this may not always be necessary. For details on when scanner replacement is necessary, refer to the Know when scanner replacement is needed section. 

What's New?

This release brings new features and updates to supported cloud platforms, data centers, and desktop platforms.

• Public Clouds: Amazon Web Services (AWS) 

• Availability of scanners in cloud marketplaces depends on cloud vendors and typically takes a few weeks after general availability from Qualys.
• This version is not limited to the platform listed above. In the upcoming releases, it will be available for all other supported virtualization platforms.

New Features

With this release, we have introduced new features for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• qVSA 4.1 image version is based on Oracle Linux 8(x86_64) with UEK kernel-5.15.
• Syslog forwarding is set up to forward all scanner logs, including both scanning-related logs, AUTOUPDATE logs, and all messages from /var/log/messages.
• EC2 instance type with a minimum of 2GB RAM is required.
• Support for TLSv1.3.

Limitation

Currently, we are not supporting SCAP scanning.