About Qualys

Qualys is a leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions. Their platform helps organizations streamline and automate security assessments, vulnerability management, and compliance monitoring. With a wide range of scanning capabilities, Qualys enables businesses to identify and prioritize vulnerabilities, assess their security posture, and implement effective remediation measures. The Qualys Cloud Platform provides comprehensive visibility into an organization's security and compliance posture, allowing for proactive risk management and protection against cyber threats.

Qualys Automation Use Cases

Qualys offers several automation use cases when integrated with third-party applications. Some common automation use cases of Qualys with third-party applications include:

1. Vulnerability Remediation Automation: Qualys can integrate with ticketing systems and IT service management tools to automate the vulnerability remediation process. This includes automatically generating and assigning tickets for identified vulnerabilities, tracking their resolution progress, and closing tickets once the vulnerabilities are remediated.
2. Continuous Monitoring and Alerting: Qualys can be integrated with security information and event management (SIEM) systems or security orchestration tools to automate continuous monitoring and alerting. This includes sending real-time alerts or triggering actions based on detected security events or policy violations, enabling organizations to respond promptly to potential threats.
3. Asset Management and Inventory Automation: By integrating with asset management systems or configuration management databases (CMDBs), Qualys can automate asset discovery, inventory management, and classification. This includes automatically scanning networks, identifying and tracking assets, and populating asset information in external systems for accurate asset management.
4. Compliance Monitoring and Reporting Automation: Qualys can integrate with compliance management systems or governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platforms to automate compliance monitoring and reporting. This includes performing regular compliance scans, analyzing results against regulatory standards or internal policies, and generating automated compliance reports for audit purposes.
5. Threat Intelligence Integration: Qualys can be integrated with threat intelligence platforms to automate the enrichment of vulnerability data with threat intelligence information. This enables organizations to prioritize vulnerabilities based on their potential impact and the active exploits observed in the threat landscape.
6. Workflow Orchestration: By integrating with workflow automation tools, Qualys can automate end-to-end security processes. This includes orchestrating vulnerability scanning, assessment, and remediation workflows, coordinating tasks across different teams and systems, and streamlining the overall security operations.

By leveraging these automation use cases through integration with third-party applications, organizations can enhance their security operations, improve vulnerability management processes, and achieve greater efficiency in their security and compliance efforts. Automation with Qualys enables organizations to proactively identify and address security risks, reduce manual effort, and strengthen their overall security posture.

Qualys Search Use Cases

Qualys provides search capabilities that external third-party applications can leverage through its APIs and integration points. Some of the search capabilities of Qualys that can be utilized by third-party applications include:

1. Asset Search: Third-party applications can search for assets based on various criteria such as IP addresses, hostnames, operating systems, or tags. This allows users to retrieve specific assets or groups of assets for further analysis or management purposes.
2. Vulnerability Search: External applications can search for vulnerabilities within the Qualys vulnerability database. This includes searching for vulnerabilities based on their severity, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) IDs, or specific attributes. Users can retrieve vulnerability details to prioritize remediation efforts or perform targeted assessments.
3. Compliance Search: Third-party applications can search for compliance controls, policies, or standards within Qualys. This enables users to retrieve information about specific compliance requirements, assess compliance status, or generate compliance reports.
4. Scan Results Search: Qualys allows searching for scan results based on scan types, dates, asset groups, or specific vulnerabilities. This enables users to retrieve scan data for analysis, track vulnerability trends, or perform historical comparisons.
5. API Query Language: Qualys API supports a query language that allows complex searches and filtering operations. Third-party applications can leverage this language to construct advanced search queries, combining multiple search conditions or applying logical operators to refine search results.
6. Reporting Data Search: External applications can search for specific data within Qualys reports. This includes searching for specific findings, vulnerabilities, or assets mentioned in the reports, allowing users to quickly locate relevant information.

By integrating with Qualys and leveraging these search capabilities, third-party applications can enhance their functionality, retrieve targeted data from Qualys for analysis or reporting purposes, and streamline their security operations. These integrations enable seamless access to Qualys data, empowering organizations to effectively manage vulnerabilities, compliance, and overall security posture.

Qualys connected with HyprEdge allows administrators to leverage the power of HyprEdge Federated Search to provide comprehensive and scalable search functionality across Qualys and other enterprise data sources enhancing productivity.

Capabilities of this Integration

This App Connect provides following capabilities:

• Actions: Patch, Quarantine Host, Scan IP
• Triggers: Vulnerability detected, Scan complete, Patch available/not available
• Artifacts: Host, IP, Vulnerabilities

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