Qualys Container Security

Qualys Container Security is a purpose-built container and cloud-native security solution designed to provide end-to-end vulnerability management, runtime protection, and compliance enforcement across containerized application lifecycles. Operating from the build phase through registry storage to runtime execution, it analyzes container images, Kubernetes configurations, and container hosts to identify known software flaws, embedded secrets, and misconfigurations before malicious code reaches production clusters.

The solution integrates natively with popular container engines, Kubernetes distributions, cloud provider services like Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE, as well as CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins and GitLab. It sends enriched threat intelligence into SIEM/SOAR platforms and engineering ticketing software, providing real-time visibility into container cluster health and running workloads. Key implementation use cases include scanning container images within CI/CD pipelines, enforcing admission control policies in Kubernetes clusters, detecting drift in running containers, and auditing compliance against CIS benchmarks.

By embedding continuous container inspection into modern DevSecOps pipelines, Qualys Container Security empowers engineering teams to build secure container applications without slowing development velocity. Security practitioners gain comprehensive asset inventories, contextual risk scoring, and actionable remediation instructions that accelerate security fixes. The platform ensures strict compliance with standards like NIST SP 800-190 and PCI DSS, safeguarding container infrastructure across enterprise multi-cloud environments.