Out-of-Band Detection for Log4Shell

Log4j is the de facto logging library for all Java applications, as Log4j is used in most Java-based applications. The challenge is that Java applications that use the log4j-vulnerable library can be coded, packaged, and deployed using different methods – this introduces a challenge for detection...

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...

Instrument VMware Virtual Machines for Security and Compliance

How do you ensure Qualys is managing the security and compliance of all your VMware workloads? First, you need to have Qualys Cloud Agent installed and running on all of your VMware virtual machines. While VMware vCenter knows the exact inventory of your virtual machines at all times, it doesn’t...

Continuous Security & Compliance Demo Series

This series shows you how to effectively navigate security risks, new regulations and new technologies in support of a secure and compliant digital transformation. Qualys product managers walk you through the new features of Qualys Cloud Platform and Apps and show you how to get maximum leverage...

ACLU Attorney: U.S. Citizens Legally Unsheltered from Abusive Surveillance

U.S. law has failed to protect Americans from widespread and excessive surveillance, a dire situation that requires immediate attention from citizens, lawmakers, attorneys, privacy experts and the courts. That was the urgent warning Jennifer S. Granick, Surveillance and Cybersecurity Counsel at t...

How to Meet a 3-Day Remediation SLA & Comply with CISA BOD 26-04

Key Takeaways CISA BOD 26–04 mandates remediation of the publicly exposed, highest-risk, known-exploited vulnerabilities within 3 days. The directive applies a risk-based model evaluating exposure, KEV status, automation potential, and technical impact. Most high-risk vulnerability instances resi...

CVE-2026-46333: Local Root Privilege Escalation and Credential Disclosure in the Linux Kernel ptrace Path

The Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU has discovered and published the full advisory for CVE-2026-46333, a logic flaw in the Linux kernel's ptracemayaccess function that permits an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, December 2025 Security Update Review

As the year winds down, Microsoft Patch Tuesday in December arrives with essential fixes and enhancements to close vulnerabilities and boost performance. Here's a quick breakdown of what you need to know. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for December 2025 This month's release addresses 72 vulnerabilities,...

Qualys Launches Enterprise TruRisk™ Management: The Industry’s First Cloud-Based Risk Operations Center

In today’s complex cybersecurity landscape, Chief Information Security Officers CISOs and business leaders require more than just a collection of disconnected tools to manage risks effectively—they need a unified, integrated approach. Today, we proudly announce the launch of Qualys Enterprise...

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2024 Cybersecurity Trends: What’s Observable Already?

2024 has already witnessed a staggering number of cyber incidents, with over 29.5 billion records breached across 4,645 publicly disclosed incidents in January alone, according to the IT Governance Security Spotlight. Moreover, CVEs are growing significantly year over year, with 13% growth from...

How to Create Collaboration and Shared Goals with IT and Security Teams

In today’s ITSM landscape, merging IT operations and security practices is no longer “ideal”, but imperative. According to a recent Gartner® Board of Directors Survey 1, 88% of respondents indicated that their organization perceives cybersecurity as a business risk. This was up from 58% in 2016,...

How Qualys Supports the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)’s Vulnerability Management Guidance

NCSC details the importance of having asset management and remediation as key requirements of a successful VM program. “A vulnerability management process shouldn’t exist in isolation. It is a cross-cutting effort and involves not just those working in IT operations, but also security and risk...

Qualys Endpoint Detection & Response Validated by Top Independent Testing Labs

Qualys is proud to announce that our Endpoint Detection & Response solution has earned top certifications from two of the most respected independent anti-virus testing organizations - SE Labs and AV-Test. These prestigious validations underscore Qualys mission to deliver best-in-class malware...

Ransomware Reality Check: Deciphering Priorities in a Sea of Cyber Extortion

Welcome to a critical exploration of the 2023 Cyber Vulnerability Landscape, with a specific focus on the escalating threat of ransomware. I have previously shared the broader results we found in evaluating the 2023 threat landscape; this is now a deeper dive into what the data reveals specifical...

Effectively Measure, Communicate, and Eliminate Cloud Risks with TotalCloud

Cloud is a dynamic and ever-evolving environment characterized by transient workloads and an expansive attack surface. This inherent nature of cloud infrastructure contributes to the ongoing complexity and challenges in maintaining robust security measures. According to the 2023 Qualys TotalCloud...

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...

Risk Fact #1: Cloud Migration Exploitation Cloud Security Research Risk Fact

Qualys Blog Series – 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights by the Threat Research Unit The 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights report from the Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU provides research insights, best practices, and detailed recommendations organized by five separate Risk Facts. The insights wil...

Empower Your Security Team With Our Robust Script Library

Introduction Qualys Custom Assessment and Remediation CAR lets you leverage your same Qualys Cloud Agent for custom detection and remediation measures. Yes, the same agent you rely on for VMDR, Patch Management, Policy Compliance, EDR, or FIM can now be used for custom detection and response...

Upgrade Your FIM Program to Detect Risk and Streamline Compliance

File integrity monitoring FIM tools are essential for defending business and customer data, but legacy tools are falling short by swamping security analysts with irrelevant alerts. This blog describes how Qualys FIM easily solves such issues by accurately isolating file-level breaches and sending...

Qualys Integrates with Shodan to Help Map the External Attack Surface

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management CSAM now natively integrates with Shodan to enable cybersecurity teams to identify all assets visible on the internet, including previously unknown and potential security issues… before attackers find them. Your attack surface is dynamic. Assets come and go,...

CERT-In’s AI Vulnerability Blueprint: Why Indian CISOs Need Machine-Speed Risk Operations in the Post-Mythos Era

A Qualys India perspective on CERT-In 's blueprint, the post-Mythos threat landscape India faces, and why the operating model needs to change. Key Takeaways Mythos-class AI changes the vulnerability equation from CVE matching to autonomous exploit discovery, turning known, unpatched weaknesses in...

A Strategic Response to the F5 BIG-IP Nation-State Breach 2025

In mid-October 2025, the cybersecurity landscape was dealt a severe blow. F5 disclosed a long-term, sophisticated breach by a nation-state threat actor. This incident exposed critical F5 BIG-IP vulnerabilities and triggered heightened scrutiny across enterprise edge infrastructure. This was not a...

Unleashing Agentic AI for Superior Threat-Informed Risk Prioritization with Agent Nyra

The cybersecurity landscape evolves relentlessly, with new adversaries and threats emerging daily. For organizations navigating these challenges, reactive responses are no longer enough. It’s about moving from complex, disconnected data streams to proactive, autonomous solutions with actionable...

The Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR): Six Trends You Can’t Ignore

Executive Summary The 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report reveals critical trends that security teams and leaders must address to protect their organizations against evolving cyber threats. Once again, Qualys contributed to this report to help unpack critical patterns and equip organizations...

Announcing TruRisk™ 2.0: Unleashing Next-Level Precision in Cyber Risk Management

In cybersecurity, quantifying risk with precision is essential for robust security posture management. At Qualys, we continuously refine our methodologies to meet and exceed the evolving demands of vulnerability management and risk management. In October 2024, the launch of Qualys Enterprise...

Secure Your Business with Qualys’ New Cloud Agent Deployment using Qualys Scanner

The significance of cybersecurity in today’s world cannot be understated. Businesses are constantly exposed to evolving threats that challenge their infrastructure. Organizations deploy various security solutions to combat these risks, including agents installed on their servers, endpoints, and...

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 in Practice: How Qualys Customers are Driving Value in Their Organizations

As the threat landscape continues to grow in complexity, it has become more important than ever for the modern enterprise to measure, communicate, and eliminate cyber risk with efficiency. What does that mean in practice? Over the last two days, during the 2023 Qualys Security Conference QSC taki...

The MGM Cybersecurity Breach: Learnings and Prevention Measures

As many are aware, the systems of the $14 billion dollar gaming and hospitality giant MGM have been brought to a halt for nearly 5 days due to a multi-vector attack that has come to affect Caesars Entertainment as well. While the culprits of the attack are not confirmed, hacking group Scattered...

Risk Fact #1: Speed Is the Key to Out-Maneuvering Adversaries

Qualys Blog Series – Threat Research Unit Report The 2023 Qualys TruRisk Research Report from the Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU provides detailed research insights that are organized into five separate Risk Facts. In this blog, we look at Risk Fact 1 - Speed is the key to out-maneuvering...

Ease Your Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Journey With Qualys

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification CMMC is a cybersecurity training, certification, and assessment program from the United States Department of Defense DoD. CMMC is designed to provide increased assurance to the DoD that a contractor can adequately protect controlled unclassified...

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,...

Developing a Repeatable and Sustainable Security Exploitable Risk Reporting Program

Introduction The key to creating a practical Reporting Philosophy is/are well-written vulnerability management policies, standards, and guidelines. These are often referred to as a Security, Governance, Risk, and Compliance SGRC program and a well-defined risk exception and acceptance RA program,...

QSC Day 2 Recap: Innovation Makes for Better Defense, Improves Resilience

If 2020 was the year of disruption, then 2021 was characterized by high-profile—and low-profile—cyberattacks against the likes of JBS Supply, Colonial Pipeline, and Kaseya. Three years that underscored the need for organizations not only to defend themselves but to become resilient to weather and...

PCI DSS v3.2 & Migrating from SSL and Early TLS v1.1

SSL & Early TLS vulnerabilities such as QID 38628 “SSL/TLS Server supports TLSv1.0”\ will be marked as a Fail for PCI as of May 1, 2017 in accordance with the PCI DSS v3.2. For existing implementations, merchants will be able to submit a PCI False Positive / Exception Request and provide proof of...

RefluXFS: A Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation to Root in XFS (CVE-2026-64600)

Executive summary Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU identified CVE-2026-64600, a race condition in the Linux kernel’s XFS filesystem copy-on-write path. An attacker with an ordinary local account can exploit this race condition to overwrite protected files on disk and gain host root privileges on...

How Federal Agencies Can Activate a Risk Operations Center (ROC) to Meet CISA BOD 26-04

Executive Summary Recognizing the ability of Frontier AI models to discover and exploit vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed and scale, CISA 's Binding Operational Directive BOD 26-04 marks a significant shift in federal vulnerability management. The directive introduces aggressive mandates,...

From Operating Model to Product: How We Built the ROC for Detection-Speed Remediation

In the first article in this series, we made the case for a prevention-led operating model. This article is about what happened next: the decision to build something that did not exist, and what it took to make it real. Turning an operating model into a product sounds straightforward until you ar...

Stop Patching at Human Speed: Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Distribution Closes the Remediation Gap Before Attackers Strike

Executive Summary Knowing what’s exploitable is only half the battle. P2P patch distribution turns your endpoints into a delivery network, cutting patch propagation by up to 92%, reducing WAN bandwidth by 99%+, and helping close critical vulnerabilities before attackers can move. Available now in...

Extending EOL/EOS Software Intelligence Across Containers, Kubernetes, and Modern Workloads

Key Takeaways Unsupported software increasingly exists inside container images and Kubernetes workloads, not just traditional infrastructure. Lifecycle risk extends beyond CVEs because unsupported software eventually stops receiving patches and vendor maintenance. Outdated base images and runtime...

Dirty Frag: Using the Page Caches as an Attack Surface

Dirty Frag is a Linux local privilege escalation LPE chain published on May 7, 2026. It combines two previously unknown kernel vulnerabilities can allow an unprivileged local user to escalate to root on many major Linux distributions. xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write CVE-2026-43284 RxRPC Page-Cache Writ...

How to Detect Issuer Certificates and Comply with Google Chrome’s New Entrust Certificate Policy Using Qualys Certificate View

Google has announced that Chrome 127 and higher will no longer trust certain TLS certificates issued by Entrust, effective November 1, 2024. This change is significant and could potentially disrupt businesses relying on Entrust-issued certificates. Google stated that "publicly disclosed incident...

TotalCloud Insights: Securing Your Data—The Power of Encryption in Preventing Threats

Introduction Did you know there is a 90% failure rate for encryption-related controls of MySQL Server in Microsoft Azure? The issue isnt confined to Azure; in Google Cloud Platform GCP environments there is a 98% failure rate of encryption-related controls for both compute engine and storage...

CSAM Strengthens Attack Surface Coverage and Risk Assessment With Third-Party Connectors

Organizations using Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management CSAM can now import asset data from any external system into the Enterprise TruRisk Platform. With third-party connectors, you will identify any existing coverage gaps and add business context to your unified inventory, helping you...

TotalCloud Insights: Crafting Effective Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for Sub-domain Takeover Risk Detection

Subdomain takeover poses a significant security threat in cloud environments. It occurs when a subdomain of a domain e.g., subdomain.example.com inadvertently resolves to an external service no longer under the organizations control. These orphaned subdomains provide attackers with a foothold for...

Beating the Challenge of Cloud Detection and Response with Qualys TotalCloud Deep Learning AI

Lets go beyond the limitations of configuration management-only, non-cloud-native EDR tools for threat detection & response using deep learning AI. The global adoption of cloud technology has supercharged agile innovation in virtually every business sector. As a result, organizations are now...

Qualys Responds to CISA Alert: Binding Operational Directive 23-02

The latest Binding Operational Directive from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA BOD 23-02 requires agencies to take steps to reduce the attack surface created by insecure or misconfigured management interfaces across certain classes of devices. While this new mandate impac...

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...

Why FedRAMP High Authorization Can Ensure High Cybersecurity Maturity

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program FedRAMP is a U.S. government initiative that promotes the adoption of secure cloud services across the U.S. federal government by providing a standardized approach to security and risk assessment for cloud technologies. FedRAMP reduces...