Overview
The Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance extends the reach of the Qualys Cloud Platform's integrated suite of security and compliance SaaS applications into the internal network of AWS. The virtual scanner appliance brings the highly-automated Qualys Vulnerability Management, Policy Compliance, and Web Application Scanning services deep into the Amazon infrastructure so that your VPC and EC2 Instances can be assessed at close range from trusted devices under your control and protected by your EC2/VPC Security Groups. Customers configure and operate all of the scanner's security services from their Qualys (SaaS) account via a secure web interface or API. Each instance of the Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance must be associated with a valid Qualys (SaaS) subscription in order to function. It is available for use by licensed Qualys customers and trial users.
Highlights
- Flexibility: Qualys Vulnerability Management, Policy Compliance, and Web Application Scanning solutions all served by this single virtual appliance.
- Ease of deployment: Tight integration with EC2 allows for touchless provisioning through the AWS Management Console, requiring no console access to the appliance ever.
- Security: Operation of the virtual appliance within your own EC2 Security Group definitions allows for programmatic Instance-based traffic control during highly-sensitive scanning operations.
Pricing
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS Magnetic volumes | $0.125/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
EBS Magnetic volumes | $0.065/per 1 million I/O requests |
Vendor refund policy
Trial Users: Qualys offers free 14 day trials of the Qualys SaaS services (https://www.qualys.com/free-tools-trials/ ) with no commitment required.Licensed Qualys customers should refer to their Service User Agreement (SUA) or contact their Qualys Technical Account Manager if they have questions about refund or cancellation policies which would apply to them.
Legal
Vendor terms and conditions
Content disclaimer
Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Support for new platform(s)
Additional details
Usage instructions
This AMI is only functional when associated with a subscription to the Qualys (SaaS) service.
A scanner Personalization Code, obtained from your Qualys subscription, must be input as a property during the launch of your new instance.
No direct user interaction with this Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance is required or possible. The scanner communicates outbound to the Qualys Cloud Platform via an SSL-encrypted channel on port 443. All functionality is managed from your QualyGuard (SaaS) account after scanner deployment
Support
Vendor support
Qualys' policy is to respond to all Qualys customer cases promptly, within 24 hours. An incident ticket is assigned a priority number based on the nature of the issue. || Service Level Agreement (SLA): https://www.qualys.com/support/sla/ https://www.qualys.com/support/ || support@qualys.com || US/Canada: +1 (866) 801-6161 (toll free) or +1 (650) 801-6161 || UK/Europe/International: +44 800 098 8563 || France: +33 1 41 97 35 81
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
Painless
Easy deployment. Deployed this to multiple VPCs and with correct Security Groups it works!
A few steps during deployment can have it connecting out automatically to the console.
PERSCODE= in the User Data field is required for registration.
Make sure your network settings are right(Need that outbound connection to WAN.)
I changed from Magnetic media to GP3 also.
Otherwise it works great!
Quick and simple setup
Launched with default configs, aside from the VPC and network settings, which I changed to a private subnet via NAT gateway.
Really easy to set up - the portal UI gives you a single UUID, you drop it in the user data, and that's it - once launched, it talks to the SaaS API, and appears in your scanner assets. Everything else is done from the SaaS portal.
Must be launched manually
per their docs: "NOTE: At this time, this product instance must be launched using the "Launch with EC2 Console" option."
This flies in the face of everything devops. You can't automate it. I am forced to use this by our secops team. If it were up to me, this alone would be a showstopper.