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...

Scaling Modern AppSec: Moving from Static Profiles to AI-Powered Scan Optimization

Key Highlights The Scale Challenge: As application portfolios grow and release cycles accelerate, traditional scanning models create a forced trade-off between coverage, cost, and velocity – leading to silent gaps that only surface during audits or incidents. The AI Solution: AI-powered scan...

Patch Automation for Browsers with TruRisk™ Eliminate

Recently, CISA added a Chrome zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2025-10585, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV Catalog, confirming that threat actors are actively exploiting this high-severity flaw in real-world attacks. This vulnerability affects multiple web browsers that utilize the Chromium...

Building Confidence in Cyber Essentials Compliance with Qualys Policy Audit

In an era where cyberattacks are becoming more frequent, sophisticated, and damaging, organizations in the UK and around the world are under increasing pressure to adopt effective cybersecurity measures. Threats such as phishing, ransomware, data breaches, and supply chain compromises now target...

Global Outage Alert: Windows BSOD Crisis Following CrowdStrike Update – Recovery Steps & Qualys Assurance

On Friday, July 19, 2024, morning, reports surfaced globally of Microsoft Windows operating system users encountering the infamous Blue Screen of Death BSOD following the latest update from CrowdStrike. This widespread issue has severely impacted critical services, including telecommunications,...

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...

Facebook Job Scam

Qualys has confirmed ongoing attacks against multiple brands offering work-from-home remote job offers, advertised through Facebook. Unfortunately, these scams typically see a rise in prevalence following the holidays. Qualys has confirmed cyber criminals are advertising jobs within Facebook to...

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...

Risk Fact #2: Automation Is the Difference Between Success and Failure

Qualys Blog Series – Threat Research Unit Report Organizational leaders dread the consequences of a successful cyber-attack, which can be devastating due to data loss, reputational damage, and legal repercussions. Under the hood, security professionals are acutely focused on finding technical mea...

Effective Vulnerability Management with Stakeholder Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC) and Qualys TruRisk

Security stakeholders across the globe have long relied on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS to prioritize vulnerabilities and assess their risk posture. The reason why the CVSS has become the standard for many security and vulnerability management teams alike is that this method is ea...

Qualys Broadens Security Offerings for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

As organizations increase their use of public cloud platforms, they encounter cloud-specific security and compliance threats, which can be challenging to address without the right tools and processes. Organizations’ cloud security difficulties lie in two main areas: Lack of visibility into their...

Creating Awareness of External JavaScript Libraries in Web Applications

Qualys Web Application Scanning WAS routinely reviews and solicits customer feedback regarding vulnerabilities. This may be to enhance the detection or the detections reporting. Previously, all JavaScript libraries detected on an application are reported under the Information Gathering QID 150176...

Discover EulerOS Vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR

The Qualys vulnerability signatures team has released a new series of signatures detections for EulerOS, allowing security teams to identify EulerOS hosts and detect their vulnerabilities. EulerOS is a Linux distribution developed by Huawei Technologies and widely adopted by customers in Asia,...

April 2017 Patch Tuesday Video Highlights

Microsoft Fixes 45 Vulnerabilities with new Security Update Guide and says goodbye to Security Bulletins. Adobe Fixes Flash, PDF reader and Photoshop...

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...

Bringing AI Code Security into Qualys ETM

A first-class data model for the next generation of findings AI-driven code security is becoming a real category. Anthropic's Claude Code Security and OpenAI's Codex Security are the leading examples, and more will follow. These tools reason about source code at a depth that traditional SAST cann...

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...

Qualys Named a Leader and Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar for CNAPP

We’re proud to share that Qualys has been recognized as a Leader and Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms CNAPP. This year’s evaluation underscores an important reality of the CNAPP market: while 18 vendors were evaluated , only a small...

Introducing TruConfirm for Enterprise TruRisk™ Management: Automated Exposure Validation

Enterprise security leaders and their teams face an impossible challenge: drowning in thousands of critical exposures in an ever-expanding attack surface while simultaneously trying to determine which ones pose a genuine risk of exploitation in their organizational environment. Traditional CVSS...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, August 2025 Security Update Review

It's the second Tuesday of August, and Microsoft has rolled out its latest security updates. Microsoft's August 2025 Patch Tuesday has arrived, bringing a fresh wave of security fixes to help organizations stay ahead of evolving threats. Here's a quick breakdown of what you need to know. Microsof...

Unpacking Qualys Agentic AI: Technical Insights into Its Architecture and Capabilities

Agentic AI revolutionizes how enterprise organizations leverage artificial intelligence by introducing systems designed to function as autonomous agents capable of planning, decision-making, and executing complex workflows with minimal human oversight. Unlike traditional AI, which often performs...

Steps to TruRisk™ – 3: Getting Started—Assessing Business Consequences

“In preparing for battle, plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower Prioritization wins battles. Preparation is the difference between a coordinated response and total chaos. Protecting what matters starts with identifying critical systems, understanding the impact,...

The State of Cloud & SaaS Security: Essential Statistics and Insights

Twenty-eight percent of organizations experienced a cloud- or SaaS-related data breach in the past year—meaning more than 1 in 4 enterprises were impacted. Even more alarming, 36% of those affected faced multiple breaches within a single year. This is just one of many cloud security pain points...

Qualys VMDR & Core Apps Revamped: Ultimate Cyber Defense Partnership for Streamlined Vulnerability Management with ITSM

Introducing the Revamped VMDR & Core Apps Qualys has the dynamic duo of ServiceNow Apps – The Qualys Core App and Qualys VMDR App – that help you close the gap between IT and Security teams, making vulnerability management and ticketing workflows seamless and eliminating manual spreadsheet-based...

Qualys Patch Management: A Review of New Features in 2023 for Faster Elimination of Cyber Risk

The recent debut of Qualys’ Enterprise TruRisk Platform promises three key benefits: measuring, communicating, and eliminating cyber risk across the extended enterprise. Qualys Patch Management plays a pivotal role in this process towards the rapid elimination of cyber risk. Our focus during 2023...

Announcing the Newest Game-Changing Upgrades of Qualys Cloud Agent

Qualys Cloud Agent Gets Powerful Enhancements for Boosting User Flexibility, Improved Control & Efficiency in VDI Environments, Seamless Updates, and More! We are excited to unveil a major upgrade to the Qualys Cloud Agent, marking a significant stride in cybersecurity management. The four update...

Building an AppSec Program with Qualys WAS – Introduction

Part 1 - Introduction and Configuring a Web Application or API: Basic Information Welcome to our introductory series of blogs where we will take you step-by-step through your application security journey with Qualys Web Application Scanning WAS to build and deploy secure web applications and APIs...

The Qualys Security Conference Mumbai: That’s a Wrap!

In recent years, the world of cybersecurity has experienced a dramatic transformation. The threat landscape has erupted, creating a host of complex challenges, with malicious actors continuously upping their game. In this high-stakes environment, the need for robust cloud security platforms...

Adopting an Effective and Easy To Implement Zero Trust Architecture

Security professionals employed by a federal agency, supplier, or regulated private sector firm are often challenged by long lists of required cybersecurity rules that can seem endless and unchanging. White House Executive Orders, FedRAMP requirements, CISA Binding Operational Directives, NIST...

Qualys Virtual Cyber Risk Summit: That’s a Wrap!

Over the last few years, the volume of software developed and the surge in vulnerabilities has been staggering. Combine this with a shortage of cybersecurity professionals, and organizations are left with the daunting challenge of keeping up with the sheer volume of information coming at them. At...

Use Qualys ­­Flow to Automate Detection & Remediation with No-code Workflows

The threat landscape is rapidly and constantly evolving. New software vulnerabilities and service misconfigurations are discovered daily, and exploits targeting them are often released within hours. For effective security, pursuing the automation of both detection and remediation processes is...

Close the Gap Between IT & Security with Our New App: Qualys VMDR for ITSM

In recent years, the world has seen an alarming rise in cyber-attacks. According to the just released Verizon DBIR report, the rate of increase of ransomware attacks in 2021 was greater than its rate of increase in the last five years, combined. Malicious exploitation of vulnerabilities continues...

Euronet Worldwide: Speedy, Global Response to Threats Reduces Risk

After years of using manual processes and systems to manage its IT inventory and track vulnerabilities, racking up costs, and increasing the complexity of asset and vulnerability management, Euronet Worldwide needed a way to get a single, accurate and timely view of risk exposure at the group...

Qualys Cloud Platform 8.11.2 New Features

This new patch release of the Qualys Cloud Platform, version 8.11.2, includes updates to shared platform features, Qualys Vulnerability Management and Qualys Policy Compliance SCAP scanning. Update 12/1/2017: New Vulnerability Management feature added below. Feature Highlights Cloud Platform User...

Qualys WAS: New Detections for XML External Entities (XXE)

In the new 2017 edition of the OWASP Top 10, XML External Entities XXE make their first appearance at A4 on the list. Qualys is pleased to announce that Qualys Web Application Scanning WAS engine 4.4 includes new detection capabilities for XXE vulnerabilities. About XML External Entities XXE If...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.28 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.28 includes updates and new features for Cloud Agent, AssetView, ThreatPROTECT, Security Assessment Questionnaire and Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows: Cloud Agent Cloud Agent AIX Beta – beta release of Qualys Cloud Agent supporti...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Security Update Review

April 2026's Patch Tuesday arrives with Microsoft addressing a fresh set of vulnerabilities across its ecosystem, reinforcing the ongoing need for timely patching in an increasingly threat-heavy landscape. Here's a quick breakdown of what you need to know. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2026...

React2Shell: Decoding CVE-2025-55182 – The Silent Threat in React Server Components

On December 3, 2025, a critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability, dubbed "React2Shell," was disclosed, impacting React Server Components and frameworks like Next.js. The flaw, CVE-2025-55182, could lead to full server takeover and is rated CVSS 10.0. It is under active exploitation, has be...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, October 2025 Security Update Review

As cybersecurity threats evolve, Microsoft's October 2025 Patch Tuesday delivers one of the most comprehensive security updates of the year. Here's a quick breakdown of what you need to know. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for October 2025 This month's release addresses a staggering 193 vulnerabilities,...

When Dependencies Turn Dangerous: Responding to the NPM Supply Chain Attack

On September 8, 2025, attackers compromised a set of 18 widely used npm packages —including chalk, debug, ansi-styles, and strip-ansi—collectively downloaded over 2.6 billion times per week. Through a targeted phishing campaign against a maintainer, the attackers published malicious versions...

Eliminate Risk with Precision: Introducing Vulnerability Detection Sources in VMDR

In the race against cyber threats, finding vulnerabilities is no longer enough. True security comes from understanding them—where they exist, how they were discovered, and what risks they pose. One of the most overlooked aspects in vulnerability management is knowing the source of detection...

Bridging the Gap: How Qualys Simplifies NCA ECC 2024 Compliance for Businesses

As the digital environment advances, new and more sophisticated cyber threats emerge, necessitating stronger and more adaptive cybersecurity measures. Recognizing this need, the National Cybersecurity Authority NCA of Saudi Arabia has introduced the Essential Cybersecurity Controls ECC 2024...

Shrinking Lifespans, Growing Risk: The Final Certificate Countdown

Recent Developments Severely Shorten Certificate Lifespans. The SSL/TLS ecosystem is shifting rapidly and not in a way that favors already stretched teams. Historically, certificates could be valid for up to 10 years. Certificates now face drastically shorter lifespans. DigiCert and other major...

Subscription Health Dashboard Update: Optimize Deployments and Identify Issues

For VM teams navigating the complex realm of cybersecurity tools, ensuring deployment health is paramount. Swift methods are required to pinpoint issues amidst complexity. Challenges such as duplicate entries, ghost hosts, and decommissioned devices can obstruct these views, hindering data...

Enhance Your Cybersecurity Posture: Qualys Tackles CISA & NSA’s Top 10 Misconfigurations

The National Security Agency NSA alongside the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA have pinpointed the most critical misconfigurations that present substantial dangers to organizations. In particular, the advisory calls out the tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs actors use...

Qualys Blog

On Wednesday, July 3, 2024 at 2:45 AM EDT Qualys identified suspicious spam content posted to the Qualys blog. Qualys conducted an investigation to identify any compromise and/or impact due to this unauthorized spam blog post and found no indication that the incident had any impact on customer...