These images serve as the foundation for the overall user experience. “With this new release of QualysGuard Policy Compliance, our customers can … However, to report you'll need a policy. Your Server 2003 and XP machines. Regards Joe Which is a great way of reducing complexity and server sprawl in your XenApp farms but what if you still have other images, the one’s we don’t want to talk about after the WannaCry cyber attack? Golden images (golden master, master image) are the base OS configurat ions from which all virtual machines in a VDI environment are built. We have a large number of Citrix Xen servers with a re-provisioning process which happens nightly. The problem we have is that as these machines are re-provisioned nightly, every day we get a duplicate Cloud Agent entry appearing. We focused a lot on imaging and then using different technologies to get to a single golden image. The illustration describes the four main phases of a CI/CD pipeline for containers, showing how Qualys helps each phase in a transparent and ergonomic way.. This is a tool, vendor, and cloud environment agnostic approach that will outline what calls you need to make to perform specific actions in your pipeline for building images, scanning them, and make approval decisions based on the scan results via API calls. In this scenario Qualys compliance scan will gather data for all of the applicable CIDs to the target in this case RHEL 4. to the extent permitted by law, qualys hereby disclaims all warranties and liability for the provision or use of this script. It describes a method for providing a repeatable, scalable, and approved application stack factory that increases innovation velocity, reduces effort, and increases the chief information security officer’s confidence that IT teams are compliant in their cloud deployments. Qualys by default can scan for compliance without a policy. You can create a policy from scratch or based on a target (golden image). results of the "Golden Images" are used to set the expected values for internal policies, allowing customers to quickly identify systems out of compliance with the “Golden Image” policy. 2. The first thing we need to do, is to create a virtual machine via the Azure portal. The golden AMI pipeline addresses challenges faced by customer cloud teams. Hello, During cloud agent installation, a host ID is generated . ami_golden_pipeline_qualys. This makes sure the file integrity monitoring as required for your compliance programs like PCI and FedRAMP is initiated before images go out in production. Golden Image Policy Organized Into Sections. Qualys and AWS partnered to document the AWS Golden Amazon Machine Image Pipeline reference architecture with Qualys scanners for vulnerability and configuration compliance assessment. this script is provided to you "as is." Is it possible to stop this from being generated so that the image can be finalised and this cloud agent ID only generated when it starts up on a new host ? When you create a golden image policy, we automatically add controls to the policy for you. In the Azure portal we go to Virtual Machines and add a new one. In this post, we explored how to … In the context of Workspot, a golden image is an image file on which the Workspot Agent has not yet been installed. Overview. In the QualysGuard 8.0 release we now go one step further and organize those controls into sections based on the control category, giving your policy structure within the Policy Editor. This document is to provide a flow of how to integrate Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance into your DevOps pipelines. We have the Qualys Cloud Agent baked into the image following the Cloud Agent guidelines. To make a golden image you need following: An Azure Subscription; If not using a public IP address, a VPN gateway or Bastion setup for your virtual machine; A resource group; Create virtual machine. In the CI/CD workflow, when DevOps deploys golden images to run their workloads, Qualys Cloud Agent is baked-in with FIM for the images enabling the out-of-the-box FIM profiles for instances.