About Qualys Custom Controls

Go to Policies > New > Policy > Import from Library. Choose a policy and click Next. If the selected policy includes QCCs you’ll see the option “Include Qualys Custom Controls”. This option is selected by default and is recommended. Click Create to import the policy and the add the QCCs. Don’t want the QCCs? No problem. Simply uncheck the option. Show me

Add asset groups to the policy and save it. Then the policy will appear on your policies list. The QCCs added from the policy appear on your controls list. A new Type column shows QCC for each Qualys Custom Control. Show me

A QCC cannot be edited (except to change criticality) or deleted. Like service-defined controls, Qualys may update QCCs in subsequent releases to provide new technology support, updates to values, etc. This will not have any impact to the QCCs added to policies.

You can make a copy of any QCC to create a UDC that you can customize to meet your exact needs. It’s easy to do – just choose Copy from the Quick Actions menu and then confirm the action. Show me

The new UDC will appear on the controls list where you can edit it.

When you export a policy you will see the option Include UDCs and QCCs. By default all service-defined controls in the policy are included. Select this option to also include user-defined controls and Qualys custom controls in the policy.

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