The primary use case is using this as the infrastructure scanner for an enterprise vulnerability programme in a customer organization.
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Generated more complete coverage of assets and saved time
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
The customer was manually testing asset health by point-in-time audits. Using the policy compliance module allowed this to be automated and saved time as well as generated more complete coverage of assets leading to greater assurance.
What is most valuable?
The prebuilt CIS templates are very useful.
What needs improvement?
Expanding the template library would be very useful.
For how long have I used the solution?
Three to five years.
**Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: My company is a service provider that installs and operates solutions for customers.
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They also have threat detection which maps threats. There is a feed that comes from Qualys when a new vulnerability is found. It tells us which machines are infected with that vulnerability.
The most valuable feature is the certificate management.
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