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Qualys

qualys.com · Technology · QLYS

Ranked 988 of 2,047 companies in the study

33Overall score
  • Visibility10
  • Citations0
  • Sentiment63
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness29
What this means for Qualys

AI assistants name Qualys in 6.7% of answers, less often than the typical company in the technology sector at 10%. Its overall score is 33 out of 100, ranking 988th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 4 of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the technology market: none named Qualys. AI assistants named it in 4 of 60 answers (6.7%). The typical technology company is named in 10.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Qualys ranks 165 of 273 in its sector.

Named by AI in
6.7%
4 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
16.0%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
4/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
167 of 273
by overall score, where the typical technology company scores 36
How Qualys compares with all 2,047 companies

Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.

This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
10

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
0

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
63

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
87

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
29

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Compared with technology

273 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score33
Ranks 167 of 273. Typical company: 36
Named in answers7%
Ranks 165 of 273. Typical company: 10%
AI readiness29
Ranks 82 of 273. Typical company: 29
What Claude actually said

An answer that names the company

“What are the best enterprise cyber risk platforms for large businesses in the US?”

I'll search for information about the best enterprise cyber risk platforms for large businesses in the US.Based on the latest information, here are some of the best enterprise cyber risk platforms for large businesses in the US:

Top Platforms

BitSight

BitSight is the leading cyber risk management platform for global enterprises in 2025, trusted by more than 3,500 customers and actively monitoring 65,000 organizations. It is best suited for large global enterprises, financial services organizations, regulated industries, and government entities that require a unified platform spanning …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Also named
CrowdStrike6SentinelOne5Rapid72Tenable2
Share of mentions

How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals

CrowdStrike
40.0%
Qualys
20.0%
Tenable
15.0%
SentinelOne
15.0%
Rapid7
10.0%
Armis
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Claude
1/15
Gemini
1/15
OpenAI
1/15
Perplexity
1/15
Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 86.8%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 0.3%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
25 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtPartly met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 93.4%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 1.4%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 10.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.0%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 0.2%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 33.7%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 31 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.qualys.com · 2,047 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

The checks behind the AI readiness score

4 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.

These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Passedllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
  • Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.

Training AI
  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBotpartly
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbotpartly
  • YouBotpartly
Answering questions
  • ChatGPT-Userpartly
  • Claude-Userpartly
  • Perplexity-Userpartly
  • DuckAssistBotpartly
  • MistralAI-Userpartly

Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

sentinelone.com
24
bitsight.com
21
metricstream.com
15
gartner.com
14
upguard.com
13
paloaltonetworks.com
12
wiz.io
11
aws.amazon.com
11
crowdstrike.com
9
orca.security
8

In the study as US-listed.

Every question, and where the company came up (2 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • What cybersecurity tools are most effective for real-time threat detection at scale?
  • How do I know if my business needs automated remediation capabilities in a cybersecurity platform?
  • How can large enterprises use continuous exposure management to minimize cyber threats?
  • What are the best enterprise cyber risk platforms for large businesses in the US?
  • Is investing in an enterprise cyber risk management platform worth it for a company with over 1000 employees?
  • What is the typical cost structure for enterprise-level cyber risk and security platforms in the US?
  • Are there any cybersecurity platforms offering modular pricing for different risk management features?
  • What are some approaches to measuring cyber risk without investing in an integrated security platform?
  • What alternatives exist to agent-based detection for enterprise-level vulnerability management?
  • How does a cloud-based security platform compare to traditional on-premises solutions for managing cyber risk?
  • Which proactive risk management solutions are available for businesses not ready for a full cyber risk platform?
  • Vulnerability management tools vs full cyber risk platforms: which is better for proactive threat detection?
  • How do I troubleshoot slow threat detection response times in my cyber risk platform?
  • What’s the best way for a multinational organization to automate risk prioritization across multiple locations?
  • Why might a real-time vulnerability scan miss certain security threats in a corporate network?
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.

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