Connect APVISO with Qualys

How APVISO Integrates with Qualys

APVISO's Qualys integration bridges AI-driven penetration testing with enterprise vulnerability management. For organizations that use Qualys for vulnerability scanning and compliance, this integration adds depth to your vulnerability program by incorporating APVISO's AI-powered pentest findings alongside Qualys scan data.

Complementary Scanning Approaches

Qualys excels at broad vulnerability scanning using CVE signatures, configuration checks, and compliance benchmarks. APVISO complements this with AI-driven penetration testing that discovers business logic flaws, authentication bypasses, chained vulnerabilities, and exploitation paths that require contextual understanding beyond signature matching. Together, they provide comprehensive vulnerability coverage.

The integration ensures that findings from both tools are correlated and deduplicated. When APVISO and Qualys both identify the same vulnerability on the same asset, the findings are linked rather than duplicated, giving security teams a clean consolidated view.

Finding Export and Correlation

APVISO exports findings to Qualys using the Qualys API. Each finding is mapped to the corresponding Qualys asset based on IP address, hostname, or asset tag matching. The finding includes APVISO's vulnerability details, severity rating, reproduction steps, and remediation guidance, formatted for Qualys's vulnerability record structure.

Qualys's asset context enriches APVISO findings with additional data: asset criticality, business unit ownership, compliance status, and network zone. This context helps prioritize remediation — a Critical finding on a PCI-scoped asset gets higher priority than the same finding on a development server.

Unified Reporting

The integration enables unified reporting across both scanning platforms. Qualys reports can include APVISO findings alongside native scan results, providing a complete picture of vulnerability exposure. This is particularly valuable for compliance reporting where penetration testing results and vulnerability scan results are often required in the same deliverable.

Workflow Integration

APVISO findings in Qualys benefit from Qualys's remediation workflow features. Assign findings to asset owners, track remediation progress, set SLA deadlines, and verify fixes through rescans. The workflow features that your team already uses for Qualys findings apply equally to APVISO findings, eliminating the need for a separate remediation tracking process.

Asset Discovery Correlation

Qualys's asset inventory provides APVISO with target context. During scan configuration, APVISO can reference Qualys asset data to identify which targets to scan, what services are running, and what the asset's criticality level is. This informed scanning approach ensures APVISO focuses its AI agents on the most important assets first.