VPN use rises following Online Safety Act’s age verification controls

As the UK's Online Safety Act came into effect on Friday—along with its age verification controls—the use of virtual private network VPN services has skyrocketed by up to 20-fold across the region. Top10VPN, which monitors VPN traffic around the world, spotted UK VPN traffic spiking 1,327% on Jul...

Navigating AWS Migration: Achieving Clarity and Confidence

Migrating workloads to Amazon Web Services AWS represents a significant strategic opportunity, enabling greater agility, scalability, and potential for innovation. But undertaking this transition without a comprehensive strategy for visibility and security can introduce unforeseen risks,...

Navigating AWS Migration: Achieving Clarity and Confidence

Migrating workloads to Amazon Web Services AWS represents a significant strategic opportunity, enabling greater agility, scalability, and potential for innovation. But undertaking this transition without a comprehensive strategy for visibility and security can introduce unforeseen risks,...

The State of Cloud & SaaS Security: Essential Statistics and Insights

Twenty-eight percent of organizations experienced a cloud- or SaaS-related data breach in the past year—meaning more than 1 in 4 enterprises were impacted. Even more alarming, 36% of those affected faced multiple breaches within a single year. This is just one of many cloud security pain points...

Microsoft's End of Support for Exchange 2016 and 2019: What IT Teams Must Do Now

For decades, Microsoft Exchange has been the backbone of business communications, powering emailing, scheduling and collaboration for organizations worldwide. Whether deployed on-premises or in hybrid environments, companies of all sizes rely on Exchange for seamless internal and external...

Agentless FIM for Detecting Network Configuration Changes

Dealing with multiple network administrators making frequent configuration changes with a monitoring solution that provides insights into device change without causing resource constraints. The performance and capabilities of a network device are entirely dependent upon its configuration settings...

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...

Transform Your Data Security Posture – Learn from SoFi's DSPM Success

As cloud technology evolves, so does the challenge of securing sensitive data. In a world where data duplication and sprawl are common, organizations face increased risks of non-compliance and unauthorized data breaches. Sentra's DSPM Data Security Posture Management emerges as a comprehensive...

Qualys Named a Leader in KuppingerCole CSPM Report

Cloud Security Posture Management CSPM is a crucial requirement in cloud security. CSPM is all about identifying misconfiguration issues and compliance risks in cloud environments. Since cloud misconfigurations are the leading cause of data breaches, you want an excellent CSPM solution on your...

Augment Security Asset Tagging with Custom Assessment and Remediation (CAR)

Security asset tagging provides a flexible and scalable way to organize the assets in your environment based on specific requirements. It enables you to create tags and assign them to your assets, which can improve your cybersecurity maturity and reduce risks for breaches and audit failures. Qual...

A Data-Centric Cybersecurity Framework for Digital Transformation

In this white paper A Cybersecurity Framework for Securing Cloud Data for Digital Transformation, analyst Richard Steinnon of IT Harvest explains that while cloud vendors supply a resilient and secure infrastructure, organizations who put data into the cloud are ultimately responsible for...

A clearer lens on Zero Trust security strategy: Part 1

Todays world is flooded with definitions and perspectives on Zero Trust, so we are kicking off a blog series to bring clarity to what Zero Trust is and what it means. This first blog will draw on the past, present, and future to bring a clear vision while keeping our feet planted firmly on the...

How to Implement Secure and Compliant IaC

Success lies in security True separation of developer and security teams is becoming a thing of the past. Today’s cloud environments enable deployments at previously unheard-of speed and scale; there simply isn’t time to build infrastructure, then code, then hand it all off for security...

CVE-2019-11687

An issue was discovered in the DICOM Part 10 File Format in the NEMA DICOM Standard 1995 through 2019b and continuing in current implementations. The 128-byte preamble of a DICOM file that complies with this specification can contain arbitrary executable headers for multiple operating systems,...

The global data privacy roadmap: a question of risk

For most American businesses, complying with US data privacy laws follows a somewhat linear, albeit lengthy, path. Set up a privacy policy, don’t lie to the consumer, and check the specific rules if you’re a health care provider, video streaming company, or kids’ app maker. For American businesse...

Gaining Control over Your Digital Certificates

Digital certificate management is in an inadequate state at most organizations, a serious problem, considering that SSL/TLS certificates are critical for a host of e-business functions. “If you’re doing something on the Internet, you’re using SSL,” Asif Karel, a Qualys Director of Product...

Looking Ahead to MIRcon 2014

As targeted cyber attacks become increasingly prevalent, today's cybersecurity professionals are being tested like never before. The upcoming Mandiant Incident Response Conference MIRcon® - October 7 & 8, 2014 - offers attendees the chance to hear insights from some of the most respected and...