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Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management

2026-07-14-68bdca00 commercial

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management continuously discovers, inventories, and assesses all IT assets across hybrid environments to eliminate security blind spots and reduce cyber risk.

Summary

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management is a commercial exposure-management platform, run as a SaaSSaaSSoftware delivered over the internet and run on the provider's infrastructure, so the buyer pays a subscription instead of installing or operating anything locally. service, that builds a unified inventory of cloud, network, identity, and datacenter assets and correlates them with vulnerability and risk data so security teams can see exposure without switching between separate tools. It extends into identity risk through its ETM Identity module, which maps Active DirectoryActive DirectoryMicrosoft's directory service for Windows networks that centralises authentication and authorisation; cyber tools target or integrate with it because it controls identity and access across most enterprise environments. attack pathsattack pathsA possible sequence of steps an attacker could take to reach a valuable target. It connects weaknesses, permissions and reachable systems rather than treating each finding separately. and domain trust relationships, flags Pass-the-Hash conditions and DCSyncDCSyncAn attack that abuses Active Directory replication permissions to request password-related data from a domain controller. It imitates the synchronization normally performed between controllers. exposure, and scores identities using the same TruRisk model applied to assets, feeding all of it into remediation workflows. It is aimed at SOCSOCA security operations center, the team or function that monitors threats, investigates alerts and coordinates incident response. Its work can be internal, outsourced or shared. analysts and vulnerability or exposure-management teams rather than developers, and it now integrates with Cisco's AI Canvas so AI agents can query asset inventory, TruRisk scores, and exploit context directly as tool calls. Launched in 2000, it remains actively maintained, with its latest release 45 days ago.

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management continuously discovers, inventories, and assesses all IT assets across hybrid environments to eliminate security blind spots and reduce cyber risk.

How Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management helps

Which of my assets across cloud, network, identity, and datacenter environments actually have exposure right now?

correlates inventory records from each domain with vulnerability and risk data into one view, so exposure shows up without switching between separate tools

Which identities in my Active Directory could an attacker use to move laterally?

maps domain trust relationships and attack paths through the identity graph and flags accounts sitting on those paths

Which accounts are exposed to Pass-the-Hash or DCSync attacks?

inspects authentication settings and replication rights, surfacing accounts with legacy NTLM, cached credentials, weak auth settings, excessive admin privileges, or DCSync replication rights

Which identities carry the most risk once misconfigurations are factored in?

scores each identity with the same TruRisk model used for assets, weighting criticality against the severity of associated misconfigurations

Which accounts have Kerberos pre-authentication disabled or other risky configurations sitting unnoticed?

scans identity configuration data and lists accounts matching these known-risky settings

Can an AI agent pull a host's risk context and act on it without a human running a console query?

exposes asset inventory, vulnerability detections, TruRisk scores, and exploit context as typed tool calls inside Cisco AI Canvas, letting the agent trigger remediation or mitigation workflows directly

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Features

5 capabilities

Built from Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management's releases, docs, README and our own runs. “Seen” marks the month we first spotted a release the vendor didn't date. Group names and tags are our labels.

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What Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management offers you

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All capabilities 5 capabilities
Active Directory attack path and misconfiguration analysis shipped Detects risky identity configurations such as disabled Kerberos pre-authentication, maps DCSync exposure and replication rights, detects Pass-the-Hash risk conditions, and visualizes lateral movement paths through Active Directory domain trust graphs. 4 releases · first seen Jul 2026

release

  • Identifies accounts with disabled Kerberos pre-authentication and other risky identity configurations. Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management screenshot changelog · Jul 2026 · source · release history
  • Supports attack path analysis and domain trust mapping to visualize lateral movement exposure across Active Directory environments. changelog · Jul 2026 · source · release history
  • Maps DCSync exposure in identity graphs, surfacing identities with replication rights before they can be exploited. changelog · Jul 2026 · source · release history
  • Detects Pass-the-Hash (PtH) risk conditions including legacy NTLM authentication, cached credentials, weak authentication settings, and excessive admin privileges. changelog · Jul 2026 · source · release history
Cisco AI agent integration shipped Connects Qualys asset inventory, vulnerability detections, TruRisk scores, and remediation workflows into Cisco AI Canvas so AI agents can query and act on Qualys data at runtime. 2 releases · 1 other source · first seen Jul 2026

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release

  • Cisco AI agents can now query Qualys at runtime — pulling asset inventory, vulnerability detections per host/workload, TruRisk scores, exploit context, and triggering remediation or mitigation workflows as typed tool calls. Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management screenshot changelog · Jul 2026 · source · release history
  • New Cisco Cloud Control integration connects Qualys Unified Asset Inventory, TruRisk Prioritized Findings, and remediation workflows into Cisco's AI Canvas environment. changelog · Jul 2026 · source · release history

example

  • Use Cisco AI Canvas to query Qualys asset and risk context for a specific host directly from the AI agent workflow. In Cisco AI Canvas, navigate to the AI Agents panel, select the Qualys integration tools (Unified Asset Inventory, TruRisk Prioritized Findings), and invoke a tool call for a target host to retrieve… changelog · Jul 2026 · source
Identity risk discovery and scoring shipped Discovers risky identities, scores them with Identity TruRisk based on criticality and misconfiguration severity, and correlates identity risk with asset risk into a unified model. 2 releases · first seen Jul 2026

release

  • New Qualys ETM Identity module discovers risky identities and correlates identity and asset risk into a unified risk model. Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management screenshot changelog · Jul 2026 · source · release history
  • Introduces Identity TruRisk scoring to quantify identity risk based on criticality and associated misconfiguration severity. changelog · Jul 2026 · source · release history
Identity-correlated automated remediation shipped Drives automated remediation workflows by correlating identity posture, exploitability, and asset context. 1 release · first seen Jul 2026

release

  • Enables automated remediation workflows driven by correlated identity posture, exploitability, and asset context. Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management screenshot changelog · Jul 2026 · source · release history
Cross-domain asset and risk visibility shipped Provides unified visibility across cloud, network, identity, datacenter, and security domains without requiring manual tool-switching. 1 release · first seen Jul 2026

release

  • Enables cross-domain asset and risk visibility spanning cloud, network, identity, datacenter, and security domains without manual tool-switching. Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management screenshot changelog · Jul 2026 · source · release history

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changelog · Jul 14, 2026

Score card

  1. Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
  2. Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
  3. Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
  4. Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
  5. Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface

Five scores for Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.

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Each score is 0–100 on a published rubric, derived from data this site already shows. A dimension we cannot measure says so — it is never scored 0 and never enters a rank.

How this is scored
  • Shipping velocity — releases a month over the last 12 months, on a log scale where 16 a month scores 100. Needs 3 releases in the window.
  • Documentation quality — the release-notes rubric published on the analytics page, unchanged.
  • Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
  • Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
  • Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
  • Community health (open-source tools only) — each is a direction, not a size: contributors this year against last, the bus factor now against a year ago, and issues closed per issue opened, where steady scores 50, doubled 100 and halved 0; plus the median time to a maintainer's first reply (an hour scores about 100, a month or more 0). A commercial card has no repository and carries none of the four.
  • Documented delivery (commercial tools) — when a vendor's documented new capabilities have slowed against its own baseline, that counts against the overall standing as heavily as two low dimensions. Steady delivery, or too little history to judge, leaves the standing alone; it is never a sixth score.
  • Open-source tools are scored on repository signals; commercial tools on their published changelog. Ranks compare tools within one category and one profile and need at least five measured peers; the overall standing needs three ranked dimensions. Best-in-breed or consolidator is a shape, not a quality, and is never scored.

Release-note detail over time

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Website history

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Releases

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  1. July 20262

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