Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, today announced general availability of its highly scalable and centralized File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) Cloud App, a new extension to the Qualys Cloud Platform that reduces the cost and complexity of detecting policy and compliance-related changes across sprawling IT environments and for compliance with increasingly prescriptive regulations.

Qualys FIM logs and centrally tracks file change events across global IT systems and a variety of enterprise operating systems to provide customers a simple way to achieve centralized cloud-based visibility of activity resulting from normal patching and administrative tasks, change control exceptions or violations, or malicious activity — then report on that system activity as part of compliance mandates.

“Increased regulations and growing security concerns are driving enterprises to consider larger, global FIM deployments,” said Rob Ayoub, Research Director in IDC's Security Products program. “Deploying FIM via a cloud-based security and compliance platform will allow these enterprises to easily scale these efforts and take advantage of a consolidated security solution to achieve compliance on a global scale, while reducing the high costs of multiple point products.”

“Current FIM tools have failed large organizations trying to scale across global IT environments, while smaller organizations struggle to get these critical security controls in place and address compliance requirements at a price they can afford,” said Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO, Qualys, Inc. “Leveraging our Cloud Agent technology, the Qualys FIM Cloud App drastically reduces both the effort and cost required to monitor IT security and compliance globally and gain confidence in IT systems.”