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Introduction: Qualys is an award-winning cloud security and compliance solution. It helps businesses simplify IT security operations and lower the cost of compliance by delivering critical security intelligence on demand and automates the full spectrum of auditing, compliance and protection for Internet perimeter systems, internal networks, and web applications. I'm using Qualys since a year & observed some problems in doing manual activity, which needs solutions to improve routine process, to save efforts & time. Due to some business reasons I didn't build the tool but I'm sharing the entire idea with design & flow of automation.     Problem Statement: -  Daily we used to make Vulnerability status report & have to submit to the management. -  Accurate reporting:  There’s some issues in Qualys tool with subject to accurate reporting & agent synchronization , due to which we’re getting some false positive report. o  Many times w...

Qualys & Job Deployment Tracker   Problem Statement: -  Difficult to remember daily deployed jobs -  And details of jobs like patch title, patch version, release date, targeted assets, deployment date, number of assets, excluded assets & etc. -  Customer or lead or senior manager comes up occasionally with questions about deployment or they want to know the status of on ground activities related to jobs & mitigation's . -  And it’s very difficult to find a particular job on the basis of required detail (refer point 2). from Job tab in Qualys. Sharing screenshot of Job tab from Patch Management module in Qualys. -  Root cause of many escalations. Solution: -  To Develop tracker or database of job deployments, where everything related to job will be recorded. -  With this, we can solve small problem (root cause) which is making big impact (unsatisfied customers). -  Tracker / Database has been created on excel as of now, as we’re no...