RE: QualysGuard

 | It is a good product, except all your data is kept in a "secure"
 | repository back at their HQ.  

Maybe more secure than a box on the company's network... 
What append if such a box get hacked ?

 |The good thing about this is 
 | you can access your box indirectly from anywhere and view 
 | the results.  The draw back, is that Qualys could gain 
 | access to your data as well as a hacker
 | (cracker) who had gained access into the Qualys network.

Datas are encrypted with the customer's password as encryption key. 
Qualys's customers can also access their datas with a SecureID authentification.
 
 |  The appliance will push data to the web portal after each scan.

Threw an ssl tunnel.

Regards,

        Aurélien Cabezon


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