What Is a Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Platform?

A vulnerability scanner tells you where the cracks are in your defenses, but it doesn't tell you which ones an attacker will actually use. To truly understand your exposure, you need to see your network from their perspective. How can a low-severity flaw on one server be combined with a...

Threat Intelligence for Exposure Management: How TI Powers Smarter CTEM Programs

Your security team has access to more vulnerability data than ever before. Scanners produce thousands of findings each week. Threat feeds deliver a steady stream of indicators. Yet most organizations still struggle with the same fundamental problem: deciding what to fix first. The disconnect...

Risk-Based Vulnerability Management: The Complete Guide to Smarter Threat Prioritization

Your vulnerability scanner just flagged 12,000 findings. Your team has the bandwidth to remediate maybe 200 this sprint. Which ones do you fix first? If your answer is "sort by CVSS score and work down the list," you are making the same mistake most security teams make. You are treating a 9.8-rat...

Threat and Vulnerability Management: Building a Unified Program

Most security teams run threat intelligence and vulnerability management as separate operations. Threat analysts track adversary campaigns and emerging exploits. Vulnerability teams run scans, generate reports, and chase patches. The two groups rarely share a workflow, a priority list, or even a...

How to Prioritize Vulnerabilities Effectively: A Framework

Attackers don’t care about your massive backlog of "critical" vulnerabilities. They look for the path of least resistance—the one exploitable weakness that gives them a foothold into your network. If your vulnerability management program isn't thinking like an attacker, you're always one step...

Top 5 Vulnerability Prioritization Tools for Enterprises

A high CVSS score doesn’t always equal high business risk. A critical vulnerability on a non-essential, isolated asset might be less of a priority than a medium-level one on your primary payment server. To truly manage risk, you have to connect technical data to business context. This means...

Your Guide to Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

Communicating security needs to leadership can be a challenge when you’re just presenting a long list of technical flaws. The conversation shifts when you can talk about risk in clear business terms. Instead of saying "we have 500 critical vulnerabilities," you can say "we have 15 vulnerabilities...

CTEM in the Spotlight: How Gartner's New Categories Help to Manage Exposures

Want to know what's the latest and greatest in SecOps for 2024? Gartner's recently released Hype Cycle for Security Operations report takes important steps to organize and mature the domain of Continuous Threat Exposure Management, aka CTEM. Three categories within this domain are included in thi...

Implement Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with Qualys TruRisk™ : Part 1

For today’s CISOs, managing cyber risk is Job 1 priority, and it’s a full-time concern. Security practitioners are spending a considerable amount of time responding to cybersecurity threats and finding ways to reduce risk from threats that are unknown. Earlier this year Qualys introduced Qualys...

The current cybersecurity challenge: All the threat data in the world, but no idea how to leverage it

Milpitas, California, August 05, 2022 -- Organizations today are facing a deluge of automated cybersecurity threats that are increasing exponentially every day, not only in velocity but in variety and complexity. This makes it virtually impossible for organizations to address every vulnerability...

How to Quickly Prioritize Risks with VMDR 2.0 and Orchestrate Response with CMDB & ITSM Integration

A single source of truth for asset inventory enables Cybersecurity and IT teams to optimally automate risk prioritization and response. Qualys VMDR 2.0 with TruRiskTM leverages Qualys CSAM to automate the Asset Criticality Score, a key parameter of risk scoring. This blog explains how with insigh...

EDR Is Dead. Long Live Multi-Vector EDR.

News of EDR’s demise has been greatly exaggerated. Fact is: older approaches to EDR have to move over. There’s a new solution now: Multi-Vector EDR. This blog reviews the highlights of our latest release of this critically important app on the Qualys Cloud Platform. Although it now seems like a...

Countdown to GDPR: Get 20/20 Visibility Into Your IT Assets

Anyone questioning the importance of IT asset visibility in an organization’s security and compliance postures ought to review the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, which goes into effect next year. With the severe requirements the GDPR places on how a business handles the personal da...