Qualys Cloud Agent Updates 2025: Scale, Security & Visibility | Qualys

Summary: Qualys reports its Cloud Agent adoption grew 18% year over year in 2025, with customers standardizing on a single lightweight agent for vulnerability management, compliance, application and asset visibility, and software composition analysis. The year's releases included Deep Scan for deeper software and vulnerability discovery, Software Composition Analysis split into Runtime and Static modes plus a new Software Atlas, Manifest Version Control for agent updates, Cloud Agent-based database authentication, ETM Identity, AIX Cloud Agent 6.0 and BSD Cloud Agent 7.1, with a Solaris release expected in early 2026.
Bottom line: Qualys achieved FedRAMP High Authorization in 2025, with Cloud Agent for Windows and Linux supporting that posture, which opens deployment to government agencies and highly regulated industries. The company also reports public cloud-hosted agent deployments growing at a double-digit rate across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and OCI while on-premises environments kept growing, so the agent's coverage now spans hybrid estates rather than one environment.

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Topics: Vulnerabilities & Patching
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