Stay ready for your next compliance audit
PDQ helps you find vulnerable endpoints, patch outdated software, track what’s in your environment, and show the work you’ve done so there’s less scrambling when compliance comes knocking.
Compliance takes more than one tool
There’s no magic button that makes your organization compliant. Meeting requirements takes the right mix of people, processes, policies, and tools.
PDQ helps you maintain a real-time asset inventory, automatically scan for CVEs across your OS and software landscape, remediate vulnerabilities with one-click deployments, and produce audit logs that give you the evidence you actually need.
One endpoint strategy can support a lot of acronyms
HIPAA. FERPA. NIST. CIS. PCI DSS. And the list keeps going. Many compliance frameworks and regulations are asking IT teams to do the same five things:
Maintain a current asset inventory
Identify and remediate vulnerabilities
Keep software and operating systems patched
Produce evidence that the work got done
Control and verify who has access
PDQ maps directly to controls across all of these areas no matter your compliance framework:
NIST
CIS Controls
HIPAA
FERPA
PSS DSS
Essential Eight (Australia)
Cyber Essentials (UK)
PIPEDA / CyberSecure (Canada)
How PDQ helps with compliance
Identify what you have
You can’t protect what you haven’t identified. Maintain a current inventory of your managed devices, including hardware, operating systems, installed software updates, processes, services, and more. See what’s installed, outdated, or missing across your environment without chasing down speadsheets.
PDQ CAPABILITIES:
Device inventory
Software inventory
Network data
Hardware data
Custom fields & groups
Reporting
Detect what needs fixing
Automatically scan managed devices for known vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation using the PDQ Risk Score, which goes beyond severity alone. See CVE details, affected devices, and recommended remediation, or formally accept risk when a vulnerability won’t be remediated.
PDQ CAPABILITIES:
Vulnerability detection
Vulnerability impact context
CVE visibility
Prioritize threats
Analyze risk
Windows & macOS vulnerability management
Keep endpoints patched
Turn finding a problem into fixing it. Deploy operating system and third-party software updates across remote and onsite devices, and automate routine patching to keep outdated software from piling up.
PDQ CAPABILITIES:
Automated deployments
Package library, maintained by PDQ
Windows updates
Software deployment & patch management
Remediate vulnerabilities
Go from finding a vulnerability to fixing it. PDQ surfaces suggested remediation packages for high-risk CVEs, so you can deploy fixes to affected devices or use automations to keep software patched over time.
PDQ CAPABILITIES:
Custom & prebuilt reporting
Deployment history and real-time results
Device & software data
Make your next audit less exciting
Keep tabs on your endpoints, stay ahead of vulnerabilities, and spend less time scrambling to prove the work that got done
FAQs
Can PDQ help with IT compliance?
Yes. PDQ helps IT teams implement and document endpoint management practices that support many common compliance requirements. You can use PDQ to maintain an up-to-date asset inventory, identify vulnerabilities, deploy patches and software updates, and document remediation activity.
PDQ is not a compliance management platform and does not make an organization compliant on its own. Compliance depends on your organization’s people, policies, processes, and technology.
What compliance frameworks can PDQ help support?
PDQ can help support endpoint-related requirements found in frameworks and regulations such as NIST, CIS Controls, HIPAA, FERPA, PCI DSS, the Australian Essential Eight, U.K. Cyber Essentials, and Canadian frameworks such as PIPEDA and CyberSecure Canada.
Specific requirements vary by framework, but many include controls related to asset inventory, vulnerability management, patch management, access management, and documentation.
How does endpoint management help with compliance?
Endpoint management gives IT teams visibility and control over the devices and software in their environment. That can help organizations meet compliance requirements related to maintaining asset inventories, identifying vulnerable or outdated software, applying security updates, controlling endpoint access, and documenting remediation.
PDQ brings inventory, vulnerability management, software deployment, and patch management together so IT teams can manage these activities from a centralized platform.
Can PDQ help with compliance audits?
Yes. PDQ can help IT teams prepare for compliance audits by providing endpoint inventory data, software and hardware information, vulnerability data, deployment history, and reporting that documents work performed across managed devices.
These records can help provide evidence that your organization has processes in place to identify assets, manage vulnerabilities, and keep endpoints updated.
Can PDQ help with patch management requirements for compliance?
Yes. Many security and compliance frameworks require organizations to establish processes for identifying and applying security updates. PDQ can automate operating system and third-party application patching across managed endpoints, helping IT teams reduce outdated software and document deployment activity.
Can PDQ help identify vulnerable endpoints?
Yes. PDQ scans managed devices for known vulnerabilities and shows which endpoints and software are affected by CVEs. IT teams can prioritize remediation using vulnerability information and the PDQ Risk Score, then deploy recommended updates or other fixes to affected devices.
Does using PDQ make my organization compliant?
No. No endpoint management tool can make an organization compliant by itself. Compliance typically requires a combination of organizational policies, documented processes, employee practices, technical controls, and ongoing monitoring.
PDQ helps support the technical side of that work by giving IT teams tools to inventory endpoints, identify vulnerabilities, deploy patches, remediate issues, and document activity.