How to Get Going with CTEM When You Don't Know Where to Start

Continuous Threat Exposure Management CTEM is a strategic framework that helps organizations continuously assess and manage cyber risk. It breaks down the complex task of managing security threats into five distinct stages: Scoping, Discovery, Prioritization, Validation, and Mobilization. Each of...

Modernizing Your VM Program with Rapid7 Exposure Command: A Path to Effective Continuous Threat Exposure Management

In today’s threat landscape, where cyber-attacks are increasingly sophisticated and pervasive, organizations face the daunting challenge of securing a constantly expanding attack surface. Traditional vulnerability management VM programs, while necessary, are no longer sufficient on their own. The...

Synology DSM HTTP/2 Implementations Window Size and Stream Prioritization Manipulation (CVE-2019-9511)

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to window size manipulation and stream prioritization manipulation, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker requests a large amount of data from a specified resource over multiple streams. They manipulate window size and stream priority ...

EPSS vs. CVSS: What's the Best Approach to Vulnerability Prioritization?

Many businesses rely on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS to assess the severity of vulnerabilities for prioritization. While these scores provide some insight into the potential impact of a vulnerability, they don't factor in real-world threat data, such as the likelihood of...

Wiz Code: Experience True ASPM With Code-to-Cloud Context

Enhance your application security posture with Wiz Code's integration of 3rd-party SAST scanners and cloud context for faster risk prioritization and remediation...

Opus Security Elevates Vulnerability Management With its AI-Powered Multi-Layered Prioritization Engine

Palo Alto, USA/California, 11th September 2024, CyberNewsWire...

Webinar: Learn to Boost Cybersecurity with AI-Powered Vulnerability Management

The world of cybersecurity is in a constant state of flux. New vulnerabilities emerge daily, and attackers are becoming more sophisticated. In this high-stakes game, security leaders need every advantage they can get. That's where Artificial Intelligence AI comes in. AI isn't just a buzzword; it'...

Evolution of Attack Surface Management

The Early Days: Basic Asset Management While it was not called ASM, the concept of managing attack surface management began with basic asset management practices in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Organizations focused on keeping an inventory of their digital assets, such as servers, desktops, an...

New Cloud Risk Dashboard: Identifying Toxic Combinations to Drive Faster Remediation

Co-authored by Andrea Ruddy Risks identified within a cloud environment compound to represent a real threat of exploitation. Our cloud risk scoring, introduced recently to insightCloudSec, focuses on these toxic combinations. Toxic combinations are attractive for bad actors who can target multipl...

Linux kernel 安全漏洞

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that originates in the net/mlx5 module in the use of E-switch that creates ingress ACLs if vport metadata matching and...

RSAC 2024 Review: AI & Data Governance Priorities

Get our take on the RSA 2024 conference where we review some of the major topics covered such as AI and data governance...

How to Create Collaboration and Shared Goals with IT and Security Teams

In today’s ITSM landscape, merging IT operations and security practices is no longer “ideal”, but imperative. According to a recent Gartner® Board of Directors Survey 1, 88% of respondents indicated that their organization perceives cybersecurity as a business risk. This was up from 58% in 2016,...

De-risk the Software Supply Chain by Expanding Unparalleled Detection Coverage With Qualys VMDR and Software Composition Analysis

QIDs/CVEs When it comes to cybersecurity, speed is key in getting an edge over attackers. But when you consider that vulnerabilities weaponize 24 days faster than then they are remediated on average, cybersecurity stakeholders have a lot of catching up to do. While there are many ways defenders c...

How to Reduce Your Risk with Proactive VM Strategies

Current cybersecurity challenges demand more than just reactive measures. A significant hurdle many organizations face is the effective remediation of vulnerabilities within their IT infrastructure. Recognizing this, security teams are increasingly turning to sophisticated vulnerability managemen...

Combine Qualys TruRisk™ and MITRE ATT&CK to Adopt Threat-Informed Defense to Reduce Risk

There are so many vulnerabilities disclosed daily that no one can patch all of them. Unfortunately, attackers can exploit them while you are still in the process of reviewing, prioritizing, and patching. Effective risk-based prioritization focuses your limited resources and remediation efforts...

Why The External Attack Surface Matters: An analysis into APAC related threat activities

Co-authors are Robin Long and Raj Samani Considerable focus within the cybersecurity industry has been placed on the attack surface of organizations, giving rise to external attack surface management EASM technologies as a means to monitor said surface. It would appear a reasonable approach, on t...

De-risking Your Organization in Spite of NVD Delays

In the face of recent struggles with the National Vulnerability Database NVD, causing delays in analyzing Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs since February 12, 2024, a significant number of CVEs lacked essential metadata including severity scores and affected product details. Qualys remain...

CTEM 101 - Go Beyond Vulnerability Management with Continuous Threat Exposure Management

In a world of ever-expanding jargon, adding another FLA Four-Letter Acronym to your glossary might seem like the last thing you'd want to do. But if you are looking for ways to continuously reduce risk across your environment while making significant and consistent improvements to security postur...

#StopRansomware: ALPHV Blackcat

Actions to take today to mitigate against the threat of ransomware: 1. Routinely take inventory of assets and data to identify authorized and unauthorized devices and software. 2. Prioritize remediation of known exploited vulnerabilities. 3. Enable and enforce multifactor authentication with stro...

TruRisk™️ Insights – The Story Behind a TruRisk Score

In the world of cloud and SaaS security, where risks arise not only from vulnerabilities but also from misconfigurations and various threats, the task of prioritizing and managing them becomes increasingly complex. Its not just about identifying vulnerabilities; its also crucial to recognize and...