Qualys Cloud Platform (VM/VMDR, PC, SCA)

Vulnerability Management (VM/VMDR)

Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response (VMDR) enables you to discover, assess, prioritize, and identify patches for critical vulnerabilities in real time and across your global hybrid-IT landscape all in one solution.

It combines asset inventory, vulnerability and configuration assessment, threat risk and prioritization, and patch detection to ensure comprehensive visibility and a remediation strategy prioritized based on context.

VMDR starts with asset discovery and inventory to make sure you have an accurate account of all devices in your environment. It performs continuous vulnerability assessments with cloud agents and a variety of sensors and leverages artificial intelligence to instantly assess and prioritize threats based on relevant context. 

Watch this video to get an overview of Vulnerability Management:

Policy Compliance (PC, SCA)

Use Qualys Policy Compliance (PC) to reduce the risk of internal and external threats while providing proof of compliance demanded by auditors and government regulations

Watch this video to know get an overview of Policy Compliance:

Know Your Qualys API Server URL

The Qualys API URL you should use for API requests depends on the Qualys platform where your account is located. Click here to identify your Qualys platform and get the API URL. This documentation uses the API server URL for Qualys US Platform 1 (https://qualysapi.qualys.com) in sample API requests. If you’re on another platform, please replace this URL with the appropriate server URL for your account. For this API Release Notes, instead of providing any platform-specific URL, <qualys_base_url> is mentioned in the sample API requests.

Additional Resources

The following are the VM,PC,SCA documentation resources:

Online Help

API User Guide

Release Notes page for previous release notes in PDF.