Qualys

Qualys, Inc. provides on-demand IT security risk and compliance management software products and services through its QualysGuard software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. The company, founded in 1999 by Philippe Langlois and Gilles Samoun, is privately owned. It is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, with international offices. Qualys was one of the first company to act as SaaS provider (formerly known as ASP - Application Service Provider) as early a 1999 and to release REST-like (not REST-ful) HTTP API (2000).

Products

The company’s flagship product line, QualysGuard, is founded on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model and is made up of these products:

• QualysGuard Vulnerability Management - security risk and vulnerability management solution
• QualysGuard Policy Compliance - defines, audits and documents for full IT security compliance
• QualysGuard PCI Compliance - automated PCI compliance validation for merchants and acquiring institutions
• QualysGuard Web Application Security - automated crawling and testing for custom web applications
• Free Malware scanning
• Qualys Go Secure Seal
• Qualys Browser Checkup examines web-browser plugins and suggests improvements.

Other services

Qualys’ Vulnerability R&D Lab conducts a monthly, second-Tuesday videocast to discuss the vulnerabilities and threats present in Microsoft Windows.

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