Qualys has announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire TotalCloud, a cloud workflow management and no-code automation platform.
With the acquisition Qualys aims to further strengthen its cloud security offerings, allowing customers to build user-defined workflows for custom policies and execute them on-demand for simplified security and compliance. To implement a workflow in a multi-cloud environment, users simply drag and drop componentised blocks to build any flow of actions to achieve a particular output, such as a compliance check or remediation.
“With the accelerating adoption of cloud technologies, organisations are looking for ways to simplify cloud security visibility and remediation with easy to automate workflows,” said Sumedh Thakar, president and CEO, Qualys. “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.”
Due to the vast number and varied behavior of the APIs involved in multi-cloud environments, it is hard for customers to build automation to control security, utilisation, inventory, and remediation.
The TotalCloud technology will allow Qualys customers to build cloud workflows that easily automate day-to-day tasks from simple asset tagging to complex scenarios involving multiple cloud services and actions such as generating an alert when a virtual machine instance has a public IP address, excessive permissions and exploitable vulnerabilities.
It also seamlessly integrates existing tools such as ServiceNow, Jira and Splunk into cloud workflows to automate alerting, change management, asset tagging, analytics and more. Finally, the TOtalCloud solution can also trigger actions across various Qualys apps, such as automatically starting a vulnerability scan when a new virtual machine instance is detected.
“We are excited to welcome TotalCloud employees, including its founder Pradeep Kumar, to the Qualys family,” said Thakar.
