Qualys

What it is

Qualys is a commercial cloud security company best known for Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response (VMDR) on the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform. VMDR combines asset discovery, vulnerability assessment, risk-based prioritisation and remediation workflows so security teams can find and fix exposure across hybrid IT from a single cloud console.

What it helps with

- Discovering and inventorying hosts, cloud instances and related assets continuously.
- Scanning for vulnerabilities and configuration weaknesses with cloud agents and scanners.
- Prioritising remediation using risk and threat context rather than raw CVE counts alone.
- Orchestrating patching and response workflows where Patch Management is licensed.
- Reporting compliance and remediation progress for audit and operations stakeholders.
- Scaling enterprise vulnerability programmes without maintaining on-premises scanner farms as the primary model.

Who it's for

Vulnerability management owners, SOC and GRC teams in mid-market and enterprise organisations that want a commercial, cloud-delivered VMDR peer to tools such as Tenable Nessus-centred programmes.

Worth knowing

Qualys VMDR is paid and typically licensed per asset, with free trials and quote-based enterprise deals; marketplace packs also appear on AWS Marketplace. Qualys offers many other Cloud Apps (WAS, TotalCloud, EDR and more); this listing focuses on VMDR and core vulnerability management. Official product pages are on qualys.com. Authorised defensive vulnerability management use only.