Advancing Cybersecurity in the Age of Frontier AI: Qualys Steps into Project Glasswing

The cybersecurity industry has spent much of the last two years debating how attackers might use AI. That debate matters, but it misses a larger point: defenders now have an opportunity to change the economics of cyber risk. For me, the question is not whether AI will influence cybersecurity. It...

Why Security Validation Is Becoming Agentic

If you run security at any reasonably complex organization, your validation stack probably looks something like this: a BAS tool in one corner. A pentest engagement, or maybe an automated pentesting product, in another. A vulnerability scanner feeding an attack surface management platform somewhe...

AI Is Not Your Security Stack

There's a debate I keep hearing in security circles: now that large language models like Claude are so capable, do we still need dedicated cybersecurity tools? I understand the appeal of the question. AI can summarize threat reports, help write detection logic, interpret vulnerability advisories,...

Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability: Are You Protected?

With billions of users, Google Chrome is more than just a browser; it’s a fundamental part of your organization's attack surface. It’s installed on nearly every endpoint, from the C-suite to the intern pool. This ubiquity is precisely what makes a Chrome zero-day vulnerability so uniquely...

Pen Testing for Compliance Only? It's Time to Change Your Approach

Imagine this: Your organization completed its annual penetration test in January, earning high marks for security compliance. In February, your development team deployed a routine software update. By April, attackers had already exploited a vulnerability introduced in that February update, gainin...

Becoming Ransomware Ready: Why Continuous Validation Is Your Best Defense

Ransomware doesn't hit all at once—it slowly floods your defenses in stages. Like a ship subsumed with water, the attack starts quietly, below the surface, with subtle warning signs that are easy to miss. By the time encryption starts, it's too late to stop the flood. Each stage of a ransomware...

Pentera's 2024 Report Reveals Hundreds of Security Events per Week, Highlighting the Criticality of Continuous Validation

Over the past two years, a shocking 51% of organizations surveyed in a leading industry report have been compromised by a cyberattack. Yes, over half. And this, in a world where enterprises deploy an average of 53 different security solutions to safeguard their digital domain. Alarming? Absolutel...

Be Proactive! Shift Security Validation Left

"Shifting security" left approach in Software Development Life Cycle SDLC means starting security earlier in the process. As organizations realized that software never comes out perfectly and are riddled with many exploitable holes, bugs, and business logic vulnerabilities that require going back...