Qualys signs up to acquire TotalCloud

Qualys has signed up an agreement to acquire TotalCloud, a cloud workflow management, and a no-code automation platform.

After the acquisition is completed, Qualys’ Cloud Security solution will be strengthened even more, allowing clients to create user-defined workflows for custom rules and execute them on-demand for easier security and compliance. Users drag and drop componentized blocks to design any flow of activities to accomplish a specific outcome, such as a compliance check or remediation, in a multi-cloud environment.

“With the accelerating adoption of cloud technologies, organizations are looking for ways to simplify cloud security visibility and remediation with easy to automate workflows,” said Sumedh Thakar, president, and CEO of Qualys.

Also added, “The acquisition of TotalCloud will allow Qualys to bring visual cloud remediation workflow technology to the Qualys Cloud Platform, underscoring our continued innovation in Cloud Security.”

Customers struggle to implement automation to govern security, utilization, inventory, and remediation in multi-cloud settings because of the many variable APIs involved. Customers of Qualys will be able to create cloud processes with ease thanks to the Total Cloud technology:

• Automate daily chores ranging from simple asset tagging to complicated situations involving many cloud services and actions like issuing an alert when a virtual machine instance has a public IP address, excessive rights, or exploitable vulnerabilities.
• Automate alerts, change management, asset tagging, analytics, and more by integrating existing tools like ServiceNow, Jira, and Splunk into cloud workflows.
• Trigger activities across many Qualys apps, such as beginning a vulnerability check automatically when a new virtual machine instance is discovered.

“We are excited to welcome TotalCloud employees, including its founder Pradeep Kumar, to the Qualys family,” continued Thakar.