Supporting Our U.S. Federal Customers for BOD 23–02 by Mitigating the Risk From Internet-Exposed Management Interfaces

On June 13, 2023, the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency CISA released Binding Operational Directive BOD 23-02: Mitigating the Risk from Internet-Exposed Management Interfaces. The directive requires federal civilian executive-branch agencies to adhere to two primary actions:...

New TSA Cybersecurity Emergency Action Rule Impacts Cybersecurity and Compliance

On March 7, 2023, in the wake of President Joe Biden’s National Cybersecurity Strategy announcement, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration TSA issued a cybersecurity emergency action amendment for certain regulated airport and aircraft operators. The new Action Rule can have significant...

Introducing Enterprise TruRisk Management from Qualys

Since the release of Qualys VMDR 2.0 with TruRisk last year, our customers have quickly adopted it to perform cyber risk assessments across the entire enterprise. With detail-rich cyber risk visualization, customers can now pinpoint the areas of their business exposed to elevated levels of cyber...

Join Us November 7-10 for Qualys Security Conference 2022 Las Vegas!

Get ready for our annual event for cybersecurity professionals: Qualys Security Conference 2022 Las Vegas! This years theme is Get More Security which emphasizes simplifying security to drive better outcomes. At the event, you will experience two days of training followed by two days of keynotes,...

Spelunking Your Qualys Data with Splunk

For the uninitiated, “spelunking” is the exploration of underground caves and caverns, and it’s not for the faint of heart. This increasingly popular sport involves walking, climbing, crawling, or zip-lining blindly into the dark abyss with only a headlamp… and spiders and bats for company. Lucki...

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...

Meet FedRAMP Compliance with Qualys Cloud Platform

FedRAMP compliance is not without its challenges. Learn about some of the major security controls and how the Qualys Cloud Platform can help achieve FedRAMP authorization. What is FedRAMP? The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program FedRAMP is a U.S. government program that promotes the...

Extending your FedRAMP Program to Container Infrastructure with the Qualys Cloud Platform

Following the recent release of the FedRAMP Vulnerability Scanning Requirements for Containers, FedRAMP-authorized systems that make use of containers have one month from March 16, 2021 to submit a plan for compliance with the new requirements. Organizations with a need to certify their services...

The Evolution of the Qualys Cloud Platform

The global pandemic has upended everything, and in the cyber security world in particular it has highlighted the need for organizations to have a cloud-based security and compliance platform, Qualys President and Chief Product Officer Sumedh Thakar said during his keynote Monday at Qualys Securit...

PAN-OS Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2020-2040) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®

On Sept 9, 2020, Palo Alto Networks published nine security bulletins addressing vulnerabilities in PAN-OS operating system versions 8.0 or later. One of the nine CVEs released, CVE-2020-2040, received a critical severity rating score of 9.8 based on the CVSS v3 Scoring system. PAN-OS devices are...

Qualys Cloud Platform 10.1.0 New Features

The upcoming release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 10.1.0, includes several new features and enhancements in Qualys Cloud Platform and Qualys Policy Compliance. This release will also add support for new technologies in Qualys Policy Compliance for OCA. 10.1.0 is scheduled to go li...

Top 5 Reasons to Attend Qualys Security Conference 2020 San Francisco

Are you interested in exploring the profound impact of digital transformation on the security industry, and how that impact affects practitioners? Are you planning to be in San Francisco during RSA Conference week? If yes, join us at Qualys Security Conference 2020 San Francisco on February 25!...

Qualys Cloud Platform 8.22 New Features (VM, PC)

Update December 11, 2019: See additional details about this release. The 8.22.0 release adds several new features in Qualys Cloud Platform, adds a new API in Policy Compliance and support for 2 new technologies for OCA. Feature Highlights Qualys Cloud Platform Support for DNS tracking – You can n...

Qualys Cloud Platform 8.21.7 New Features

Update November 27, 2019: The features referenced in this blog post will be released in Qualys Cloud Platform release 8.22. Update November 19, 2019: The features referenced in this blog post will be released in the next Qualys Cloud Platform release scheduled for December 2019, and will be...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.41 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.41 includes updates and new features for new Gov clouds in AssetView / CloudView and Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. AssetView Microsoft Azure Gov Cloud Connector – Added connector support for Microsoft Azure Gov Clouds, includi...

Qualys Cloud Platform 8.21.2 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 8.21.2, includes Virtual Scanner Appliance support for Alibaba Cloud Compute, scheduling of EC2 scans with no scannable EC2 assets in Asset Tags in Qualys Vulnerability Management, expanded support for instance discovery and auto recor...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.21 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 8.21, adds new technologies and platforms, and support for scanning ESXi hosts on vCenter for vulnerabilities. Feature Highlights Qualys Vulnerability Management VM Support for Scanning ESXi Hosts on vCenter for Vulnerabilities – Qualy...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.20.1 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 8.20.1, includes support for new technologies and platforms, addition of new technology for Windows UDCs as well as an update in an existing option name "Scan agent hosts in my target" in the Launch Vulnerability Scan page. Feature...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.39 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.39 includes updates and new features for Out-of-Band Configuration Assessment OCA, Vulnerability Management, and Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. Vulnerability Management Trending uses Include/Exclude Filters in Dashboard – Widge...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.19.1 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 8.19.1, includes newly added technology support for HP Safeguard and CISCO ACS 5, collected via Qualys Out-of-Band Configuration Assessment. Feature Highlights Qualys Policy Compliance PC New Technology Support - Qualys now supports th...