Streamline Security: Automate Database Compliance with Qualys Cloud Agent

This post highlights rising compliance audit failures and introduces Qualys Cloud Agent’s new database authentication and assessment feature, which integrates with CyberArk Vault to securely retrieve credentials and perform automated, continuous compliance checks for Oracle and Microsoft SQL against benchmarks such as CIS, DISA, and NIST. It emphasizes reduced network impact, real-time monitoring, comprehensive policy coverage, and daily automated scans, with the feature expected to be enabled by default for Policy Compliance-enabled accounts by April 2025.