Cynet: An Autonomous Security Platform for Any Size Organization

The Cynet security platform takes a different approach to traditional point security offerings, by providing a consolidated solution to all aspects of breach protection through a single interface. Unlike endpoint security solutions that only focus on particular types of threats targeting the...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.19 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 8.19, contains several new features and improvements in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance, which include an improved display of deadlines for remediation policies in VM; additional support for MS Exchange Server...

Code IB 2019: Vulnerability Management Masterclass

On March 29, I held one hour master class "HOW to avoid excessive formalism in Vulnerability Management process" at Code IB Profi 2019. Everything went quite well and I've got 88% positive ratings. Not bad result ^^. The main feature of the conference was a very special audience. The only way to...

Vulnerability Management vendors and Vulnerability Remediation problems

It's not a secret, that Vulnerability Management vendors don't pay much attention to the actual process of fixing vulnerabilities, that they detect in the infrastructure Vulnerability Remediation. Although it seems to be the main goal of VM products: to make vulnerabilities fixed and whole IT...

The evolution of Microsoft Threat Protection, April update

Microsoft Threat Protection continues to energize the threat protection market with our most recent announcements. Customers are excited about the launch of Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection ATP, which extends Microsoft’s best in class endpoint security to Mac and adds powerful new...

Qualys Training Update, April 2019

The Qualys Training team has expanded the AssetView & Threat Protection course, and added two new training series: CertView and Troubleshooting Scanner Appliance Error Codes. These new additions build on last month’s update, when we introduced the new Vulnerability Management learning path, which...

Why Asset Management is so important for Vulnerability Management and Infrastructure Security?

When people ask me how should they start building Vulnerability Management process in their organization well, sometimes it happens, I advice them to create an effective Asset Management process first. Because it's the foundation of the whole Infrastructure Security. The term "Asset Management" h...

Ancestry: On the Vanguard of DevOps Security

Grant Johnson, Ancestry's Director, Risk & Compliance This is a guest post by Grant Johnson, Director, Risk & Compliance at Ancestry Over the past two years, Ancestry moved its entire applications and data infrastructure from local data centers to Amazon’s cloud, and this required a new approach...

DefectDojo v1.5.4 - Application Vulnerability Correlation And Security Orchestration Application

DefectDojo is a security program and vulnerability management tool. DefectDojo allows you to manage your application security program, maintain product and application information, schedule scans, triage vulnerabilities and push findings into defect trackers. Consolidate your findings into one...

Faraday v3.7 - Collaborative Penetration Test and Vulnerability Management Platform

Here are the main new features and improvements in Faraday v3.7: Now, you can include images to explain vulnerability steps, add tables, codes, and we also support: Title Bold and italic typography Click here to find out how to configure Markdown in Faraday: New vuln preview With Faraday v3.7 you...

GOG Galaxy updater temp directory insecure file permissions local privilege elevation vulnerability

Summary An exploitable local privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the file system permissions of GOG Galaxy’s Temp directory. An attacker can overwrite executables of the Desktop Galaxy Updater to exploit this vulnerability and execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. Tested Versions...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.18 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 8.18 contains several new features and improvements in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance, which include CertView Vulnerability Scan for EC2 Assets, support for new authentication types to filter vulnerabilities,...

Announcing Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac and new Threat and Vulnerability Management capabilities

On February 28, 2019, we announced Microsoft Threat Experts, a new managed hunting service within the Microsoft 365 Security portfolio that enables customers to extend their expertise and insights with the help of Microsoft security professionals. This release showcased our philosophy that securi...

Free Training: New Certified Learning Paths

The Qualys Training team is eager to share all of the recent additions to our free training program, as well as provide insight into what is coming in 2019. You can expect to see regular updates as we continue to improve our training offerings! It is our mission to help Qualys customers and...

Join Microsoft Security Response at the Product Security Operations forum at LocoMocoSec!

The MSRC is more than managing vulnerability reports, publishing Microsoft security updates, and defending the cloud. The MSRC is passionate about helping everyone improve internal engineering practices and supporting the defender community, and are excited to partner with Blackberry to host a...

Join Microsoft Security Response at the Product Security Operations forum at LocoMocoSec!

The MSRC is more than managing vulnerability reports, publishing Microsoft security updates, and defending the cloud. The MSRC is passionate about helping everyone improve internal engineering practices and supporting the defender community, and are excited to partner with Blackberry to host a...

Vulnerability Management at Tinkoff Fintech School

In the last three weeks, I participated in Tinkoff Fintech School - educational program for university students. Together with my colleagues, we prepared a three-month practical Information Security course: 1 lecture per week with tests and home tasks. Each lecture is given by a member of our...

Martian Vulnerability Chronicles

Well, there should have been an optimistic post about my vulnerability analysis & classification pet-project. Something like "blah-blah-blah the situation is pretty bad, tons of vulnerabilities and it's not clear which of them can be used by attackers. BUT there is a way how to make it better usi...

No left boundary for Vulnerability Detection

It's another common problem in nearly all Vulnerability Management products. In the post "What’s wrong with patch-based Vulnerability Management checks?" I wrote about the issues in plugin descriptions, now let's see what can go wrong with the detection logic. The problem is that Vulnerability...

Open Positioner: my new project for tracking IT and security jobs

The idea of my new project is to retrieve the data from job-searching websites and provide better filtering, searching and visualization. I think for the most people who read this, searching for a job in Internet is a pretty common activity. Even if you are not going to change job right now, it...