Qualys Policy Compliance
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Qualys Policy Compliance is a cloud-based security tool that monitors IT infrastructure for regulatory compliance violations and policy adherence.
Summary
Qualys Policy Compliance is a commercial compliance-management service that checks systems against configuration benchmarks like CISCISA nonprofit that publishes consensus-based configuration benchmarks and controls for hardening operating systems, cloud environments, and software; cyber tools use it as a ready-made compliance baseline., DISA STIGSTIGA configuration standard published by DISA that specifies hardening requirements for a given OS, application, or device, giving cyber tools a concrete checklist to audit or enforce against., PCI-DSSPCI-DSSThe Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, security requirements for protecting payment account data. It covers organizations that store, process or transmit that data and relevant service providers., and NIST, and helps fix what fails. It runs through the Qualys Cloud Agent already deployed on an organization's assets, with cloud workloads picked up and assessed automatically as they spin up, so there's no separate scan window to schedule. Its Audit Fix add-on pushes version-controlled Custom Assessment and Remediation scripts to bring failed controls into compliance at scale, then rescans automatically to confirm the fix and produce timestamped, audit-ready evidence across more than 90 frameworks. This is aimed at compliance owners and security teams who need to prove control status to auditors rather than just detect drift, and it covers over 500 platforms and environments. It sits in the integrated-risk-management space and has been running since 2000.
Qualys Policy Compliance is a cloud-based security tool that monitors IT infrastructure for regulatory compliance violations and policy adherence.
Qualys Policy Compliance publishes no documentation we track, so the description above is written from general knowledge rather than the vendor's own words.
How Qualys Policy Compliance helps
Which of our systems are out of compliance with a given benchmark right now?
checks each asset's configuration against the loaded CIS, DISA STIG, PCI-DSS, or NIST controls through the Cloud Agent already on the box and marks each control passed or failed, no separate scan window required
Can we actually fix what fails, not just see it?
pushes version-controlled Custom Assessment and Remediation scripts mapped to the specific failed control, applying the fix at scale rather than just flagging it
How do we know a remediation actually took effect?
reruns the assessment automatically after the script executes and flips the control's status from failed to passed, timestamping the result as evidence
What proof can we hand an auditor that a control was met on a given date?
produces timestamped, audit-ready evidence tied to the specific benchmark control across more than 90 frameworks
Are newly spun-up cloud workloads being checked at all?
activates and evaluates new and auto-scaling assets automatically the moment they appear, so nothing sits unassessed until the next scheduled scan
Does one policy set cover all our platforms consistently?
applies the same benchmark checks across more than 500 platforms and environments, so drift is caught the same way everywhere rather than per-system
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What Qualys Policy Compliance connects to, runs on and detects, read from its release notes and docs. So far: 1 new compliance framework.
1 change, tracked since Oct 30, 2026.
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Oct 302026
new CISA AA26-194A out-of-the-box policy for Cisco router configuration hardening
With Cisco routers, SNMP, management services, password and authentication controls, restricted management access, software lifecycle
Qualys Policy Audit decisively addresses the challenges organizations face with AA26-194A by providing an out-of-the-box policy that automates the assessment of Cisco router configurations against the advisory's recommended security practices.
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