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