IBM Security Verify Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2022-08045)

IBM Security Verify Access is a service from IBM USA that improves user access security. The service enables secure and simple access to platforms such as Web, mobile, IoT, and cloud technologies through the use of risk-based access, single sign-on, integrated access management controls, identity...

IBM Security Verify encryption issue vulnerability

IBM Security VerifyAccess ISAM is a service from IBM USA that improves user access security. The service enables secure and simple access to platforms such as Web, mobile, IoT, and cloud technologies through the use of risk-based access, single sign-on, integrated access management controls,...

WordPress Bugs Exploded in 2021, Most Exploitable

Last year brought forth much more than a Ben Affleck-Jennifer Lopez reunion – analysts found the number of exploitable WordPress plugin vulnerabilities exploded. Researchers from RiskBased Security reported they found the number of WordPress Plugin vulnerabilities rose by triple digits in 2021...

Prioritize Remediation with a Perceived-Risk Approach to Strengthen CyberSecurity Effectiveness

Minimizing Time To Remediate TTR is becoming one of the key metrics of security program effectiveness. This holistic measure represents many capabilities and is a good validation of your risk mitigation capacity because it captures how quickly you can respond to the most critical vulnerabilities...

6 ways cybersecurity teams can save time and money

The phrase “time is money”, originally attributed to Benjamin Franklin, reprimands the slothful for wasting their working hours. As one of the founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin clearly never worked a day in cybersecurity. This is an area where fresh blood is hard to find to...

IBM Security Verify Access Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

IBM Security Verify Access is a service that improves user access security. The service enables secure and simple access to platforms such as web, mobile, IoT and cloud technologies by using risk-based access, single sign-on, integrated access management controls, identity federation and mobile...

A Post-Data Privacy World and Data-Rights Management

The reality is that today, almost everyone is being tracked and monitored 24/7 with cameras recording our expressions, interactions and speech to determine what we might be thinking, where we are going and who we are meeting. While privacy differs from nation to nation and culture to culture, one...

VoIPmonitor 27.5 Missing Memory Protections

VoIPmonitor static builds are compiled without any standard memory corruption protection - Fixed versions: N/A - Enable Security Advisory: https://github.com/EnableSecurity/advisories/tree/master/ES2021-04-voipmonitor-staticbuild-memory-corruption-protection - VoIPmonitor Security Advisory: none ...

Dive Deep into VMDR

Qualys devoted the second day of the Qualys Security Conference entirely to vulnerability management, detection and response VMDR, a critical area for the security and compliance of hybrid cloud IT environments. Mehul Revankar, VP of Product Management and Engineering for VMDR at Qualys, set the...

Building an Open Cloud Platform

Qualys Chairman and CEO Philippe Courtot kicked off Qualys Security Conference with an assessment of current security challenges and a clear call to action on how to successfully overcome them. “Today security is front and center, and as we move to the cloud, we must rethink security,” Courtot sa...

Forcepoint and Microsoft: Risk-based access control for the remote workforce

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligence Security Association MISA guest blog series. Learn more about MISA here. Adopting cloud-based services as part of an organization’s digital transformation strategy is no longer optional, its a necessity. Last year, only 18 percent of the...

Forcepoint and Microsoft: Risk-based access control for the remote workforce

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligence Security Association MISA guest blog series. Learn more about MISA here. Adopting cloud-based services as part of an organization’s digital transformation strategy is no longer optional, its a necessity. Last year, only 18 percent of the...

Dive Deep into VMDR

Qualys devoted the second day of the QSC USA 2020 virtual conference entirely to vulnerability management, detection and response VMDR, a critical area for the security and compliance of hybrid cloud IT environments. Mehul Revankar, VP of Product Management and Engineering for VMDR at Qualys, set...

Building an Open Cloud Platform

Qualys Chairman and CEO Philippe Courtot kicked off QSC USA 2020, the company’s 20th annual user conference, with an assessment of current security challenges, and a clear call to action on how to successfully overcome them. “Today security is front and center, and as we move to the cloud, we mus...

On Risk-Based Authentication

Interesting usability study: "More Than Just Good Passwords? A Study on Usability and Security Perceptions of Risk-based Authentication": Abstract: Risk-based Authentication RBA is an adaptive security measure to strengthen password-based authentication. RBA monitors additional features during...

Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 1: A Changing Landscape for Securing Users

In recent years, new enterprise remote access architectures and frameworks have been introduced, such as Zero Trust Access ZTA. Those concepts have driven changes in the way the network perimeter has been defined -- specifically, from the outside in, not the inside out. Access to applications and...

US Space Cybersecurity Directive

The Trump Administration just published "Space Policy Directive - 5": "Cybersecurity Principles for Space Systems." Its pretty general: Principles. a Space systems and their supporting infrastructure, including software, should be developed and operated using risk-based, cybersecurity-informed...

Qualys Response to Rapid7’s False Claims on VMDR

As remote working is becoming the need of the hour, IT and Security teams are working tirelessly to ensure continuity of services and deliver on all aspects of the business. To help our customers in these challenging times, we launched a 60-day no-cost ‘Remote Endpoint Protection’ service for...

Microsoft and Zscaler help organizations implement the Zero Trust model

While digital transformation is critical to business innovation, delivering security to cloud-first, mobile-first architectures requires rethinking traditional network security solutions. Some businesses have been successful in doing so, while others still remain at risk of very costly breaches...

Adopting a Risk-Based Approach to Cybersecurity in the Financial Services Industry

Today’s financial organizations face many different risks in volatile and uncertain business environments, but the ever-present threat of cyberattacks and data breaches is now impossible to ignore. For this reason, managing these cyber-risks now has to simply be considered one of the many costs o...