The Power and Future of the Qualys Cloud Platform

Qualys Security Conference 2019 kicked off this morning at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. The event actually began on Monday with training sessions over the first two days, but this morning hundreds of attendees filled a conference room to listen to keynote presentations about the state of...

Patch Management 1.3 New Features

This release of Qualys Patch Management version 1.3 includes new features, highlights as follows. Patch Scheduling enhancement: "No Patch Window" – When scheduling a patch deployment, instead of having to specify a Patch Window time frame, you can select "None". This will allow a job to continue ...

Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #7

Black Hat USA 2019 is just weeks away, and with scores of training courses and research briefings to choose from, planning your schedule can be a challenge. To help you, we’re posting a weekly recommendation on our blog, and explaining why we think Qualys customers could find it useful and...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.33 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.33 includes the release for CertView, plus updates and new features for AssetView, Cloud Agent, EC2 Connector, Security Assessment Questionnaire, Web Application Scanning, and Web Application Firewall, highlights as follows. This posting has bee...

Qualys Cloud Suite 8.12 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Suite, version 8.12 adds new reporting options for the PC Report, allowing you to include new summaries in the remediation section of the report for control failures. Feature Highlights Qualys Policy Compliance PC/SCAP PC Report: Failure Summary Section – You...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, April 2025 Security Update Review

Microsoft's April 2025 Patch Tuesday has arrived, delivering critical security updates and fixes across the various products, features, and roles. Here's a quick breakdown of what you need to know. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2025 In this month's Patch Tuesday, April 2025 edition, Microsoft...

Join Qualys at Black Hat USA 2022!

Need to get more security? As a Titanium Sponsor of Black Hat USA 2022 Qualys will be located front and center in Booth 1320 on the show floor. Stop by and visit us to learn about our latest techniques, best practices, and solutions for risk-based vulnerability management, external attack surface...

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...

Threat Hunting: Adoption, Expertise Grow, but Work Remains

Threat hunting, an often misunderstood but powerful security practice, is gaining traction, as more organizations reap benefits from it and get better at it. However, there is still a lot of room for adoption to increase and for practices to improve. Those were key findings from the SANS...

Qualys Cloud Platform 8.15.2 New Features

Patch release of Qualys Cloud Platform, version 8.15.2, includes new support for Apache instance auto-discovery in Qualys Policy Compliance. Policy Compliance Apache Instance Auto-Discovery – This new feature in Qualys PC enables automatic discovery of Apache during compliance scans. Once one or...

DeepSeek Failed Over Half of the Jailbreak Tests by Qualys TotalAI

A comprehensive security analysis of DeepSeek 's flagship reasoning model reveals significant concerns for enterprise adoption. Introduction DeepSeek-R1, a groundbreaking Large Language Model recently released by a Chinese startup, DeepSeek, has captured the AI industry’s attention. The model...

Black Basta Ransomware: What You Need to Know

Overview Black Basta is a ransomware group operating as ransomware-as-a-service RaaS, first spotted in April 2022. It is known to use double extortion techniques where the group demands payment for the decryption and non-release of stolen data. Earlier versions of Black Basta share many...

Check Point Security Gateway Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CVE-2024-24919)

Check Point Security Gateway is a secure web gateway that is an on-premises or cloud-delivered network security service. Check Point enforces network security policies, including firewall, VPN, and intrusion prevention capabilities. Check Point published a zero-day advisory on May 28, 2024,...

WhatsApp Fixed Critical Vulnerabilities that Could Let an Attacker Hack Devices Remotely – Automatically Discover and Remediate Using VMDR Mobile

WhatsApp has recently fixed critical and high-severity vulnerabilities affecting WhatsApp for Android, WhatsApp Business for Android, WhatsApp for iOS, and WhatsApp Business for iOS. Exploiting these vulnerabilities would be the first step of an attacker installing any malware on the device. In...

Securing your Cloud and Container DevOps Pipeline

Organizations are aggressively moving workloads to public cloud platforms, such as Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft’s Azure, upping the ante for InfoSec teams, which must protect these new environments. Driving this growth in cloud computing adoption is its essential role in digital...

ToolShell Zero-day: Microsoft Rushes Emergency Patch for Actively Exploited SharePoint Vulnerabilities

On July 19, 2025, Microsoft issued an emergency out-of-band security update to address two zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Server: CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771. These vulnerabilities are under active exploitation in the wild and demand immediate attention to protect your...

Fingerprinting Web Applications and APIs using Qualys Web Application Scanning

Decoding the impact of Fingerprinting Organizations develop an effective, actionable go-to-market plan to launch a profitable product into the target market. A go-to-market strategy predicts market demand by analyzing market research, competitor data, and previous examples. Without a solid...

Introducing “This Month in Patches” Webinar Series

It’s no secret that the number of vulnerabilities is on the rise, and so too are the attempts by hackers to exploit them as quickly as they can. Over the last few years, the average time from vulnerability disclosure to exploit is down to a mere seven days. Organizations therefore need to move...

Technical Deep Dive Into SolarWinds Breach

Many organizations have been compromised by the recent SolarWinds breach, which seems to be a targeted attack against both government and private agencies. The complete scale of this attack is still unknown, but what is known is that the hackers gained access to victims’ systems via malicious...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, January 2020

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Qualys Helps Smaller Organizations Secure Hybrid IT with Free Offering

The digital transformation revolution waits for -- and spares -- no one. It forces all businesses to adopt tech innovations, like cloud, IoT and mobility, and to protect the resulting IT environments as they become hybrid, distributed and elastic. With traditional network perimeters dissolved,...

Countdown to GDPR: Assess Vendor Risk

To comply with GDPR, organizations typically must overhaul and update a number of internal processes and systems, but they can’t ignore a critical area: risk from vendors and other third parties such as contractors, partners, suppliers and service providers. It’s a point that’s stressed repeatedl...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, January 2024 Security Update Review

The first edition of the Microsoft Patch Tuesday for 2024 is now live! Microsoft has released fewer than usual security fixes in this months update. We invite you to join us to review and discuss the details of these security updates and patches. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2024 Microsoft...

Securing Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS in Red Hat OpenShift with Qualys

Qualys full-stack security for Red Hat OpenShift adds visibility, actionable intelligence, and security auditing for Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS, the operating system that underpins OpenShift deployments for running containers securely. With this new offering, Qualys is now the first and only...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.38 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.38 includes updates and new features for AssetView, Web Application Firewall, and Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. AssetView Azure Instance State search token and Dynamic Tag Support – A new search token "azure.vm.state" is added...

GDPR Is Here: Web App Security Is a Must

With web and mobile apps becoming a preferred vector for data breaches, organizations must include application security in their plans for complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. GDPR went into effect in May, imposing strict requirements on millions of businesses worldwid...

April Patch Tuesday – 63 Microsoft vulnerabilities, 19 for Adobe

Today's Patch Tuesday is smaller than last month, but there are more critical updates this time. Out of the 63 vulnerabilities covered by the Microsoft patches, 22 of them are critical. Adobe has released 6 bulletins covering 19 vulnerabilities. According to Microsoft and Adobe, there are no acti...

New ‘Silence’ Banking Trojan copies Carbanak to Steal from Banks (Analysis with IOCs)

Dark Reading is reporting on a new banking trojan called 'Silence' that mimics techniques similar to the Carbanak hacker group targeting banks and financial institutions. The attack vector is similar – target individuals using spear-phish emails to trick them into running a malicious attachment...

InfoSec Pros Must Fasten Their Seatbelts for Digital Transformation Ride

The IT industry has gone through multiple revolutions – client-server computing, the Internet’s rise, virtualization, mobility – but none rivals the unprecedented impact of today’s digital transformation. The implications for InfoSec professionals are broad, requiring that they adapt quickly to t...

Gartner: The Pursuit of Perfection Weakens InfoSec Effectiveness

While malicious hackers are the obvious enemies of InfoSec pros, there’s something else that puts IT environments in danger: Perfectionism. When applied to security, perfectionism becomes detrimental, creating a false certainty that all bases are covered and yielding a fundamentally flawed approa...

Better Trusted Scanning with Qualys-CyberArk Integration

To manage privileged credentials, especially across multiple systems in complex environments, many organizations use privileged account security solutions. Qualys has integrated with such solutions for a long time, and has recently upgraded its CyberArk integration to include CyberArk Application...

Proactively Managing High-Risk Vulnerabilities with TruRisk Mitigate™

In late 2024, organizations faced over 65 million detections from three critical vulnerabilities—CVE-2013-2900, CVE-2024-38122, and CVE-2024-30078—underscoring the urgent need for proactive vulnerability management. Adding to these challenges, the Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU uncovered five...

Announcing TotalCloud™ 2.0 with TruRisk™ Insights: The Future of Cloud and SaaS Security

Rapid cloud and SaaS adoption is driving digital transformation thats reshaping business agility and scalability, making cloud and SaaS security more critical than ever. Recognizing this shift, in November 2022, Qualys launched TotalCloud – an AI-powered cloud-native application protection platfo...

PCI DSS 4.0 FIM Requirements Simplified with Qualys File Integrity Monitoring

File Integrity Monitoring FIM is one of the essential requirements under PCI DSS 4.0. It helps organizations detect and respond to unauthorized changes in critical system files, configuration files, or content files, which is crucial for maintaining the security of cardholder data. Organizations...

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...

Qualys Leadership Update: Moving Forward Together

Today, we announced that Philippe Courtot has resigned from his CEO role. As you may know, Philippe took a leave of absence due to health issues unrelated to COVID-19 last month. Our thoughts are with Philippe and his family as he continues to focus on improving his health. Over the past 20 years...

An End-to-End Approach to Next-Gen Web Application and API Security

It was almost 10 years ago that Marc Andreessen wrote that software is eating the world. It is still true today, but I would be even more specific and say that web applications and APIs are eating the world. Our businesses run on web apps and APIs, and their ubiquity means that securing them has...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.36 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.36 includes updates and new features for AssetView Cloud Assets and Cloud Agents and Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. AssetView Rules for Cloud Assets and Cloud Agents Rule-Based Method to Purge/Uninstall Cloud Assets and Cloud...

GDPR Is Here:  Assess the Security Configurations of Your IT Systems

In prior installments of this GDPR compliance blog series, we’ve discussed the importance of key security practices such as IT asset inventory and vulnerability management. Today, we’ll focus on another core component for GDPR: policy compliance. As we’ve stated before, to comply with the EU’s...

Qualys Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Forrester Wave™ for CNAPP

Qualys’ Key Takeaways Qualys Named a Leader: Recognized as one of only three leaders in The Forrester Wave: Cloud-Native Application Protection Solutions CNAPP, Q1 2026. Unified Platform: “Qualys has been actively expanding its platform to cover CSPM, CIEM, and even SaaS security posture manageme...

Part 1: An In-Depth Look at the Latest Vulnerability Threat Landscape

The number of vulnerabilities is steadily increasing over the years, as evidenced by the 206,000 vulnerabilities reported and still counting in the National Vulnerability Database NVD. With each subsequent year, this trend has persisted since 2016, surpassing the previous vulnerability count. In...

Adobe Flash Player Reaches End of Life on December 31, 2020

In July 2017, Adobe announced that Adobe Flash Player will reach “End of Life” EOL on Thursday, December 31, 2020. After this date, Adobe Flash Player will no longer be supported or distributed by Adobe. Adobe says that once Flash reaches its EOL date, there will be no further updates or security...

Solorigate/Sunburst : FireEye Breach Leveraged SolarWinds Orion Software

Update Dec 23, 2020: Added new section describing how to reduce risk with File Integrity Monitoring. Update Dec 22, 2020: FireEye Red Team tools & Solorigate/SUNBURST On December 13, SolarWinds released a security advisory regarding a successful supply-chain attack on the Orion management platfor...

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...

Secure Remote Endpoints from Vulnerabilities in Video Conferencing & Productivity Applications like Zoom

With millions working, learning and collaborating remotely due to COVID-19 challenges, there's an explosion of remote endpoints running Zoom and other collaboration and productivity applications such as Outlook, Teams, Webex, Slack, Office 365 and more. As remote endpoints are accessing...

Continuous Web Security Assessment for Production and DevOps Environments

Web applications have become essential for business, as they simplify and automate key functions and processes for employees, customers and partners, making organizations more agile, innovative and efficient. Unfortunately, many web applications are also unsafe due to latent vulnerabilities and...

Save Time by Streamlining Vendor Risk Assessments in the Cloud

As your organization enthusiastically adopts cloud and mobile services from multiple new vendors, are your already-busy security and compliance teams scrambling to assess the risks of using these new providers’ products? Are you still using a manual process for conducting these vendor evaluations...

Visualizing WannaCry & Shadow Brokers with Dashboards

To assess infections from WannaCry ransomware and threat exposure from the Shadow Brokers vulnerabilities across an entire IT environment, it's helpful to visualize your exposure via dynamic dashboards. Using Qualys AssetView and ThreatPROTECT, I created a single-pane incident response dashboard...

For GDPR Readiness, You Need Visibility into Your IT Assets

The looming deadline for complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR is shining the spotlight on a foundational InfoSec best practice: A comprehensive IT asset inventory. The reason: GDPR places strict requirements on the way a business handles the personally identifiable...

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...