Qualys Cloud Platform (QCP)
Qualys Cloud Platform consists of a suite of IT security and compliance solutions delivered via SaaS deployment model that leverages shared and extensible core services. The solution allows customers to continuously monitor their hybrid environments for Vulnerabilities, compliance, misconfigurations, automate remediation with the aim of reducing organisational risk.
Features
- Vulnerability Management
- Risk Management
- Compliance
- Endpoint Security
- Patching/Remediation
- Asset Management
- Cloud Security
Benefits
- Free Instructor led training
- Free Technical Support
- Dedicated Technical Account Manager
- Six Sigma Accuracy - Low false positives
- One Agent/One platform for all of your security needs
- Native Cloud Integration
- Risk/Threat information-Pulled in by 25+ different vendors
Pricing
£1,970 a unit
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
1 5 1 5 2 7 2 5 9 9 6 2 8 5 8
Contact
INTEGRITY360 LIMITED
Paul Momirovski
Telephone: +44 20 3397 3414
Email: bidreviewboard@integrity360.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
- Public cloud
- Service constraints
- N/A
- System requirements
- N/A
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- The Qualys Technical Support team are available 24/7/365. For further details on response times please visit this link that includes SLAs: https://www.qualys.com/support/sla/
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- Web chat
- Web chat support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the web chat support is accessible
- From the Qualys.com website
- Web chat accessibility testing
- WCAG 2.0 AA
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
- The Qualys Technical Support team are available 24/7/365. For further details on response times please visit this link that includes SLAs: https://www.qualys.com/support/sla/
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- Certified online training is available, A dedicated Technical Account Manager is assigned to all accounts
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- Reports and dashboards can be downloaded or exported via the API
- End-of-contract process
- Upon termination of the agreement, Qualys will automatically delete all customer scan data within 13 months of termination. Customers can request that Qualys delete all online subscription data within one month. Subscription data will remain on encrypted backup tapes for up to one year. The data can be downloaded using the reports or via the API
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
-
- Internet Explorer 11
- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Opera
- Application to install
- Yes
- Compatible operating systems
-
- Android
- IOS
- Linux or Unix
- MacOS
- Windows
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- N/A
- Service interface
- Yes
- User support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Description of service interface
- Qualys' Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model, allows users to access Qualys from any Web browser. This unique SaaS platform enables organisations to assess and manage its security exposures freeing them from the substantial cost, resource and deployment issues associated with traditional software products
- Accessibility standards
- None or don’t know
- Description of accessibility
- WCAG 2.0 AA - Plan to upgrade to WCAG 2.1/WCAG 2.2
- Accessibility testing
- WCAG 2.0 AA - Plan to upgrade to WCAG 2.1/WCAG 2.2
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
-
"Qualys CSP customers can access the platform for UI and API calls via HTTPs.
For more information, please refer to our API documentation at https://www.qualys.com/docs/qualys-api-quick-reference.pdf" - API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- API sandbox or test environment
- No
- Customisation available
- No
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- We have over 12 Datacentres around the world carrying out over 6+billion scans a year, 13+ trillion data points indexed on Elasticsearch giving 2 second visibility. We can scale Qualys as your needs grow. We just add more capacity to meet the scanning, analysis and reporting needs of your business
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
- License count/usage - Can be tracked from within the Qualys console
- Reporting types
-
- Real-time dashboards
- Regular reports
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Qualys
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
-
- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Other locations
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- Less than once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- ‘IT Health Check’ performed by a Tigerscheme qualified provider or a CREST-approved service provider
- Protecting data at rest
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- Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Encryption of all physical media
- Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
- Other
- Other data at rest protection approach
- All customer data at rest is encrypted using AES 256 bit algorithm.
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
-
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Dashboards, Reports and openAPI
- Data export formats
- CSV
- Data import formats
- Other
- Other data import formats
-
- HTML
- XML
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Qualys Cloud platform is highly available, and referenced in the MCSA and through our SLA reference material. The Cloud Services will be available to Customers, as measured from the Qualys SOC connection to the Internet, twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week, with a 99.5% uptime, calculated on a quarterly basis, excluding scheduled maintenance
- Approach to resilience
- The Qualys Cloud Platform resides behind network-based, redundant, highly-available firewalls and intrusion monitoring solutions. In addition, each host runs a localized firewall on top of the customized, hardened Linux distribution, which is unique to Qualys. Qualys is available 24x7x365 and can be accessed anytime from anywhere through a Web browser. Qualys consistently maintains 99% availability. The service is constantly updated transparently, without any interruption to users, and is only taken off-line once a quarter for maintenance and updates. This process usually lasts a few hours in duration.
- Outage reporting
-
Incase the customer is impacted by a security Breach, Qualys shall notify the customer within 24 Hrs.
Additionally, Customers may subscribe to receive email notifications of Qualys service status and Breach / scheduled maintenance / Outage: https://status.qualys.com/
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
-
- 2-factor authentication
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Username or password
- Other
- Other user authentication
- Qualys CSP customers can access the platform for UI and API calls via HTTPs. Qualys has user based password authentication, active directory integration, single sign on
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Qualys maintains formal Access Control Procedures (AC) which ensures roles and responsibilities segregation of duties. Session controls, access privileges, job descriptions etc. The Qualys environment multi factor authentication is enforced for remote access, sensitive data and all privileged accesses.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Management access authentication
-
- 2-factor authentication
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Username or password
- Other
- Description of management access authentication
- In Qualys' environment multi factor authentication is enforced for remote access, sensitive data and all privileged accesses
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Schellman Compliance
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 1/1/2024
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- Yes
- CSA STAR accreditation date
- 1/2/2024
- CSA STAR certification level
- Level 2: CSA STAR Attestation
- What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover
- N/A
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
-
- FedRAMP Authorized (Impact - Moderate)
- Qualys ISO/IEC 27001:2013
- Qualys ISO/IEC 27017:2015
- Qualys ISO/IEC 27018:2019
- SOC 2 Type II
- PCI Approved Scanning Vendor - search for company name 'Qualys'.
- EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and Swiss-U.S.
- Regulated by SEC
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
-
- CSA CCM version 3.0
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Other
- Other security governance standards
-
CSA CCM v3.0
Qualys ISO/IEC 27001:2013
Qualys ISO/IEC 27017:2015
Qualys ISO/IEC 27018:2019-
SOC 2 Type II
PCI Approved Scanning Vendor - search for company name 'Qualys'.
EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and Swiss-U.S.
FedRAMP Authorized (Impact - Moderate)
Regulated by SEC - Information security policies and processes
-
Qualys has policies and procedures to ensure compliance with applicable legislative, regulatory and contractual requirements.
Qualys information Security Policies and Procedures are in adherence with FedRAMP and follows NIST 800-53 controls and ISO27001 standards.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Configuration and change management approach
-
Configuration Management Policy/procedures are established to define Qualys’s approach to configuration changes in relation to information systems.
Qualys has Change Management process for oversight, transparency, control changes to production environments. It establishes guidelines/standards to formally authorize, manage, test, document, monitor, implement information system changes in production environments.
All Changes to the Qualys Cloud Platform(QCP) are approved by the Change Management Board(CMB) before implementation in production environments. Changes are tested in a development/staging environment prior to CMB approval and then released to the production environment
Qualys employs a ticketing system for change-management thats used to log changes throughout the change process. - Vulnerability management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
-
Qualys has documented policies based on NIST 800-53, which address vulnerability management.
Qualys adheres to and complies with FedRAMP security vulnerability assessment(s) in remediating/patching on a regularly basis.
Qualys uses three different severity categories for vulnerabilities as per the FedRAMP requirement.
critical / High: - Qualys aim to have patch rolled out under 30 days
Medium: - Qualys aim to have patch rolled out under 90 days
Low: - Qualys aim to have patch rolled out under 180 days - Protective monitoring type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Protective monitoring approach
- Qualys has an Incident Response Plan (IR Plan) that defines the minimum requirements for responding to incidents in an efficient and effective manner, including detecting, analyzing, prioritizing, and handling of incidents. Security incidents are reported and monitored by Security and Operations teams 24x7.
- Incident management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Incident management approach
- Qualys has an Incident Response Plan (IR Plan) that defines the minimum requirements for responding to incidents in an efficient and effective manner, including detecting, analyzing, prioritizing, and handling of incidents. Security incidents are reported and monitored by Security and Operations teams 24x7.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
-
Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Equal opportunity
Fighting climate change
We are deeply committed to finding ways to reduce the environmental impact of our operations and recognize that the challenge of climate change will require global collaboration to mitigate its impacts. We strive to do our part by operating within energy-efficient networks and data centers and by working to reduce our energy, waste, and materials consumption to minimize our direct environmental footprint.Equal opportunity
We believe that doing right by our employees and communities maintains the trust of our customers, partners, employees, and investors, and doing so meets the diverse needs of our clients. We take a holistic approach to human capital management, investing in our company culture, employee learning and development, and the recruitment and training of the next generation of Qualys leaders.
Pricing
- Price
- £1,970 a unit
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- 1. Community Edition - Provides a complete, continuously updated, and instant view of monitored IT assets and Web applications from a single-pane of glass interface. 2. SSL Labs - Check whether your SSL website is properly configured. 3. CertView - Identify certificate grades, issuers, expirations and more
- Link to free trial
- https://www.qualys.com/free-services