Qualys is the leading provider of vulnerability management and pioneered the on demand delivery model. The Qualys flagship service, QualysGuard, performs more than 1 million scans per quarter on networks owned by thousands of organisations, including some of the world’s largest enterprises.

QualysGuard was built from the ground up as the first on demand vulnerability management solution.

• Discover and prioritize all network assets.
• Proactively identify and fix security vulnerabilities.
• Prevent worms, viruses & trojan horses.
• Manage & reduce business risk.
• Ensure compliance with laws, regulations and corporate security policies.

The solution uniquely provides companies an automated system to audit network security at any time from any Internet browser— proactive assessment and remediation of security risks is therefore accomplished without any infrastructure to deploy and manage. QualysGuard users can immediately identify, prioritise and remediate vulnerabilities before exploitation by worms or attackers. This automated solution enables organisations to reliably detect and eliminate vulnerabilities more frequently and accurately than with traditional software solutions.

Qualys’ unique on demand technology ensures immediate and up-to-date knowledge of vulnerabilities, high scalability of scanning, and accuracy and reliability of network audits without straining IT resources. With the increasing sophistication and shortened lifecycle of attacks, automating and auto-provisioning vulnerability management is critical in fighting the threats that define today’s security climate.

With its extensive experience identifying and detecting vulnerabilities on real world networks, Qualys has developed the world’s largest and most accurate vulnerability signature database, adding dozens of new vulnerability signatures each week. Qualys publishes predictive indices of both internal and external vulnerabilities that are at the greatest risk for compromise. These dynamic Top 10 lists are updated automatically and continuously from a statistically representative sample of thousands of networks, and help security administrators prioritise their remediation efforts by focusing on the
most dangerous threats.