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...

Negotiating with the Board: Translating Active Risk into Financial Exposure

Security leaders rarely struggle to produce data. The challenge is turning that data into something the board can use to make decisions. Walk into a board meeting with a slide showing 1,200 critical vulnerabilities and 44 internet-facing assets, and you will likely see polite acknowledgment rathe...

A Practical Guide to Prioritize Cyber Risk

You have firewalls, endpoint detection, and countless other security controls in place, but how do you know they’ll work when an actual attack happens? Guesswork isn't a strategy. Breach and Attack Simulation BAS helps answer this question by safely testing your defenses against real-world attack...

Unify now or pay later: New research exposes the operational cost of a fragmented SOC

Security operations are entering a pivotal moment: the operating model that grew around network logs and phishing emails is now buckling under tool sprawl, manual triage, and threat actors that outpace defender capacity. New research from Microsoft and Omdia shows just how heavy the burden can...

CISO Spotlight: Craig Riddell on Curiosity, Translation, and Why API Security is the New Business Imperative

It’s an unusually cold winter morning in Houston, and Craig Riddell is settling into his new role as Wallarm’s Global Field CISO. It’s a position that suits him down to the ground, blending technical depth, empathy, business acumen, and, what Craig believes, the most underrated skill in...

What Is Exposure Management Cybersecurity? A Guide

For too long, security has been a defensive game of whack-a-mole. A new threat appears, and we scramble to patch it. But what if we could see our organizations the way an attacker does? Attackers don’t care about your patching cadence or your CVSS scores. They look for the path of least...

A Guide to Exposure Management Cybersecurity Best Practices

Attackers don't think in terms of CVE scores. They look for the path of least resistance, whether it's a forgotten server, a misconfigured cloud bucket, or an exposed API. While your team is busy prioritizing a long list of software flaws, a real threat could be exploiting a simple oversight that...

Cracking the Boardroom Code: Helping CISOs Speak the Language of Business

CISOs know their field. They understand the threat landscape. They understand how to build a strong and cost-effective security stack. They understand how to staff out their organization. They understand the intricacies of compliance. They understand what it takes to reduce risk. Yet one question...

How Leading CISOs are Getting Budget Approval

It's budget season. Once again, security is being questioned, scrutinized, or deprioritized. If you're a CISO or security leader, you've likely found yourself explaining why your program matters, why a given tool or headcount is essential, and how the next breach is one blind spot away. But these...

The Exposure Convergence: Why Identity, Infrastructure, and Intelligence Are Converging

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. The cybersecurity industry is experiencing a fundamental convergence around "exposure management" ...

The Exposure Convergence: Why Identity, Infrastructure, and Intelligence Are Converging

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. The cybersecurity industry is experiencing a fundamental convergence around "exposure management" ...

Unlock the Boardroom with Cyber Risk: How the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform Empowers CISOs

The Changing Landscape for CISOs " If you can't measure it, you can't manage it." - Peter Drucker This timeless adage by Drucker resonates deeply in today's digital era, where managing cyber risks has become a business-critical priority. According to a recent survey from Splunk, Today, nearly 50%...

Qualys Announces TruRisk Eliminate to Augment Patching

About 5 years ago, we launched Qualys Patch Management to empower our customers to not just detect and prioritize vulnerabilities but also effectively remediate them. Since then, we have assisted our customers in addressing hundreds of millions of vulnerabilities, significantly enhancing the...

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,...

What is Exposure Management and How Does it Differ from ASM?

Startups and scales-ups are often cloud-first organizations and rarely have sprawling legacy on-prem environments. Likewise, knowing the agility and flexibility that cloud environments provide, the mid-market is predominantly running in a hybrid state, partly in the cloud but with some on-prem...

Cyber Threat Landscape: 7 Key Findings and Upcoming Trends for 2024

The 2023/2024 Axur Threat Landscape Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the latest cyber threats. The information combines data from the platform's surveillance of the Surface, Deep, and Dark Web with insights derived from the in-depth research and investigations conducted by the Threat...

Nextcloud: No Rate Limit On Forgot Password on https://apps.nextcloud.com

The "Forgot Password" feature on the Nextcloud apps website had no rate limit, allowing an attacker to send multiple requests and potentially overwhelm the victim's email inbox...

3 Ways to Apply a Risk-Based Approach to Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response: Gartner® Report

In an ongoing effort to help security organizations gain greater visibility into risk, we’re pleased to offer this complimentary Gartner® report, 3 Ways to Apply a Risk-Based Approach to Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response. This insightful research can help a security organization reali...

Patch Where it Hurts: Effective Vulnerability Management in 2023

A recently published Security Navigator report data shows that businesses are still taking 215 days to patch a reported vulnerability. Even for critical vulnerabilities, it generally takes more than 6 months to patch. Good vulnerability management is not about being fast enough in patching all...

CVE-2022-44565

An improper access validation vulnerability exists in airMAX AC 8.7.11, airFiber 60/LR 2.6.2, airFiber 60 XG/HD v1.0.0 and airFiber GBE 1.4.1 that allows a malicious actor to retrieve status and usage data from the UISP device...