Before the Breach, There Was a Test Environment

Key Takeaways Most security failures do not begin where they are discovered. By the time risk becomes visible in production, the decisions that created it are often already sitting in test environments. “Temporary” test infrastructure often becomes permanent, creating persistent misconfigurations...

12 Best Practices for Securing AWS Cloud in 2026

Key Takeaways Securing AWS cloud in 2026 depends on continuous, risk-based governance rather than isolated tools or one-time checks. Most cloud security incidents stem from customer-side issues such as identity misuse, misconfigurations, and exposed workloads. Effective security for AWS cloud...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, March 2026 Security Update Review

Microsoft has rolled out its March 2026 Patch Tuesday updates, delivering a fresh batch of security fixes designed to keep Windows environments protected from emerging threats. The release addresses multiple vulnerabilities spanning Windows components and other Microsoft products. Here's a quick...

From Shadow Models to Audit-Ready AI Security: A Practical Path with Qualys TotalAI

Key Takeaways AI security demands a paradigm shift, treating models, endpoints, and integrations as dynamic attack surfaces requiring continuous governance. Inventory-driven visibility is foundational to managing AI sprawl, uncovering hidden assets, and aligning security with innovation velocity...

How Security Tool Misuse Is Reshaping Cloud Compromise

Key Takeaways Legitimate secret-scanning tools such as TruffleHog have been operationalized in real-world cloud attack campaigns. Attack progression commonly follows a repeatable sequence: credential discovery, live validation, permission enumeration, and data access. Exposed long-lived access ke...

Battle Compliance Confusion and Security Fatigue with Qualys and ServiceNow

Once upon a time, your biggest worry was whether Dave in Accounting would click on a suspicious link. Today, you wish Dave were your only worry. You’re likely balancing four major clouds, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle, plus on-premises, hybrid environments, thousands of ephemeral...

What Security Teams Need to Know as PHP and IoT Exploits Surge

Attack automation is accelerating, widening the window between detection and response. Qualys TRU telemetry reveals how these attacks unfold and what defenders can do next. The Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU has identified a sharp increase in attacks targeting PHP servers, IoT devices, and cloud...

Qualys Recognized as a Leader in the 2025 GigaOM Radar for Patch Management Solutions

With vulnerabilities growing faster than most organizations can keep up with, the need for a smarter, easier way to reduce risk has never been more urgent. That’s why in 2019 Qualys launched Patch Management—the first solution built to reduce risk, not just push software updates. Since then, the...

Built-in Runtime Security for Containers

Security teams struggle with visibility into behaviors inside their running containers. Qualys is today announcing general availability of Container Runtime Security CRS to provide industry-leading visibility for running containers using an approach that is container-engine agnostic and layered...

Shaping the Future of Cyber Risk Management: QSC Evolves to ROCon

Over the last year, I’ve had the privilege of meeting with thousands of CIOs, CISOs, and security leaders across the globe. What I hear repeatedly is clear: managing cyber risk is more complex than ever, driven by the evolving digital, threat, and regulatory landscape. The number of vulnerabiliti...

How Agentic AI Helps with Adaptive Cloud Risk Assessment with Agent Vikram

In fast-moving cloud environments like AWS, security teams face an uncomfortable truth: not every EC2 instance is being scanned, existing tools don’t work across a diverse environment that includes long-lived and ephemeral assets, and visibility is never complete. Qualys research found that over...

Eliminate Risk from Older and Unmanaged Java Installations

Older Java installations pose a significant security risk, particularly when developers install them in non-standard locations without any version control. These unmanaged installations often go undetected, silently expanding the organization’s attack surface and leaving critical vulnerabilities...

Qualys TotalCloud Wins “Best Cloud Security Product” at 2025 SC Awards Europe

We’re proud to announce that Qualys TotalCloud has been named “Best Cloud Security Product” at the 2025 SC Awards Europe —a recognition of our relentless drive to unify, simplify, and modernize cloud security for enterprises across the globe. In today’s complex multi-cloud world, securing...

Guard Against GenAI and LLM Risks from Development to Deployment with Qualys TotalAI

Artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the enterprise. From automating customer service to accelerating code generation, large language models LLMs are rapidly becoming embedded in how businesses operate and compete. But as organizations embrace this innovation, they are also opening...

Introducing Qualys Policy Audit, the New Standard for Audit Readiness

Do you know how audit ready you really are? What if you could answer that question with confidence—at any moment, across every system, for every framework that matters to your business? In today’s rapidly shifting regulatory landscape, audits are no longer a periodic event—they’re a continuous...

Qualys TotalCloud KCS Achieves Red Hat Vulnerability Scanner Certification

We’re excited to announce that Qualys TotalCloud Kubernetes and Container Security KCS has achieved the Red Hat Vulnerability Scanning Certification , reinforcing our commitment to unbiased, 6-sigma accurate vulnerability detection. By meeting Red Hat’s rigorous security standards, Qualys...

Securing AI Innovation: Enterprise Strategies for LLM and Generative AI Security

The adoption of Large Language Models LLMs and Generative AI is revolutionizing enterprise operations, delivering unmatched innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage. However, this rapid integration brings significant AI security challenges that organizations must address. Insights from...

Unlock the Boardroom with Cyber Risk: How the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform Empowers CISOs

The Changing Landscape for CISOs " If you can't measure it, you can't manage it." - Peter Drucker This timeless adage by Drucker resonates deeply in today's digital era, where managing cyber risks has become a business-critical priority. According to a recent survey from Splunk, Today, nearly 50%...

Certificate Awareness & Automated Renewal with Qualys CertView

The Challenges of Managing Digital Certificates Everything we do in the digital world relies on certificates. Whether this is accessing services using our computer or phone, for work or for leisure—certificates are ubiquitous. However, for many organizations, managing digital certificates can pos...

Steps to TruRisk—Insight to Action with VMDR

Shifting from Vulnerability Management to Business-Focused Risk Reduction In cybersecurity, numbers can be deceptive. The sheer volume of vulnerabilities does not equate to risk. Instead, resilience depends on understanding which vulnerabilities pose the greatest threat to your business—and actin...

Decoding OWASP – A Security Engineer’s Roadmap to Application Security

In a time where over 60% of data breaches are linked to software vulnerabilities and a single overlooked software vulnerability can expose sensitive data, the imperative of robust application security cannot be overstated. The 2023 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report highlights that...

CVSSv4 Public Preview Announcement

On June 8, 2023, at the 35th Annual FIRST Conference in Montreal, the public preview of CVSSv4 was announced. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS is an open framework for communicating the characteristics and severity of software vulnerabilities. Since its initial release in 2004, CVSS h...

Don’t forget about risk remediation of your macOS assets

Employees love for Macs has propelled tremendous growth for Apple. According to a recent study by Parallels, 55% of businesses use Mac devices themselves or explicitly approve of their use within the company. It is hard to believe Macs have been around for almost 4 decades. Largely introduced to...

Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Delving into More Sophisticated Techniques

Corden Pharma needed a standardized security program to meet customer requirements. Link3 Technologies wanted to prioritize its network security improvements. Telenet was looking for a road map to implement its ISO-27000 compliance program. These three companies — a German pharmaceutical contract...

Operationalizing Day Minus Seven: The Cloud-Native ROC

Summary Frontier AI models in the post-Mythos era are changing the speed and scale of exposure risk. Security teams are entering an era where AI can help discover, chain, and exploit weaknesses faster than traditional programs can absorb. The challenge is no longer finding more issues; it’s knowi...

Qualys TotalAI Achieves FedRAMP Moderate (FedRAMP Certified Class C) Authorization

Key Takeaways Federal AI adoption is accelerating faster than governance and approved security tooling. Risk now spans models, infrastructure, and the software supply chain. AI threats often mimic normal usage, which makes it difficult to detect with static methods. Meeting mandated federal...

Deep Scan: Expanding Vulnerability Detection Beyond Traditional Boundaries

Security teams estimate that a significant percentage of enterprise software is installed outside standard system directories or package-managed locations, creating persistent visibility gaps for traditional vulnerability-scanning methods. As environments become more decentralized, with...

Threat Research Report: The Broken Physics of Remediation

The race most security programs are built around — patch faster than the attacker can exploit — was designed for a threat landscape that no longer exists. The data shows defenders are falling behind in the vast majority of cases. Across the most critical, actively weaponized vulnerabilities of th...

ROC vs. CTEM: How a Risk Operations Center Evolves Beyond Continuous Threat Exposure Management in 2026

Key Takeaways: The Essentials of ROC vs. CTEM What is a ROC? A risk operations center ROC is a centralized command hub that unifies cyber risk management across security, IT, and compliance. It uses agentic AI to provide a real-time view of business risk, prioritize what matters, and then automat...

Top 10 Cloud Compliance Tools for Enterprise Security and Audit Readiness in 2026

Key Takeaways Cloud compliance has shifted from periodic audits to a continuous operating requirement as hybrid and multi-cloud environments change faster than traditional controls can keep pace. Modern cloud compliance solutions provide continuous, automated compliance monitoring across AWS,...

Zero-Day Zero: The AI Attack That Just Ended the Era of the Forgiving Internet

Why the Exploit Window Has Collapsed and How CISOs Must Pivot to Survive For decades, cybersecurity was a game of time. We banked on the buffer between a vulnerability’s disclosure and its widespread exploitation. We relied on the forgiving internet, where human attackers needed days or weeks to...

GenAI: Harness the Power, Eliminate the Risk — A Practical Playbook for Securing AI from Day One

Enterprises everywhere are racing to leverage AI to gain sharper insights, automate workflows, and deliver richer customer experiences. Based on an assessment conducted by Bain & Company, generative AI adoption is soaring, with 95% of US companies using it, up 12 percentage points in just a year...

Subscription Health Dashboard 2025 Update

Deployment health is mission-critical in today’s digital environment. Duplicate records, ghost hosts, and stale data obscure insights, slow decisions, and erode confidence. Building on last year’s Subscription Health Dashboard blog and best practices, the 2025 update delivers cleaner visibility,...

Introducing Enhanced User Interface for Qualys PCI DSS 4.0 ASV Compliant Solution

We’re excited to introduce the new Qualys PCI ASV user interface, built to deliver a smarter, faster, and more intuitive experience. The redesigned PCI ASV UI helps you simplify PCI DSS 4.0 compliance, save time, and reduce audit-related stress. This major update improves usability, streamlines...

CVE-2025-8088 WinRAR Exploit: From Zero-Day to Zero-Risk with TruRisk™ Eliminate

The Risk Behind the WinRAR Vulnerability A newly disclosed path traversal vulnerability CVE-2025-8088 in WinRAR leaves millions of Windows systems exposed to attack. This flaw enables adversaries to craft malicious archives that bypass the user’s chosen extraction path, forcing files into...

Fortifying Your Cloud Against Cross-Service Confused Deputy Attacks

Gartner predicts that worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will exceed $720 billion in 2025, up from $595.7 billion in 2024. As cloud investments grow, so does reliance on cloud-native architectures, introducing new layers of complexity and risk. One often-overlooked but serious...

Powering the Future of Cyber Risk Management: Welcoming Our First mROC Alliance Members

Organizations today face a growing challenge: fragmented security tools, a flood of risk findings, and limited visibility across environments. But perhaps the biggest challenge of them all is the disconnect between cybersecurity efforts and the business value at risk. Without the ability to...

How DevOps Can Move Fast and Stay Secure with TruRisk

Don’t Spend Your Time Fixing Too Many Vulnerabilities In modern DevOps, speed is everything—and so is security. But for most teams, the two feel constantly at odds. The reality? You’re probably spending valuable time fixing vulnerabilities that don’t actually matter. Moreover, there’s always the...

Qualys Performance Tuning Series: Remove Stale Compliance Data for the Best Performance

In our first post in the Performance Tuning Series, we talked about removing stale assets to improve performance. In this installment, we will address the benefits of removing data once it becomes stale. Why does data become stale? The IT environment of any enterprise is very dynamic, and more so...

AI Under the Microscope—What’s Changed in the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025

As AI continues to evolve, so do the threats and vulnerabilities that surround Large Language Models LLMs. The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2025 introduces critical updates that reflect the rapid changes in how these models are applied in real-world scenarios. While the list includes...

De-risk Generative AI: Enterprise TruRisk Platform Advances to Secure AI and LLM Workloads

As we stand at the frontier of technological innovation, artificial intelligence AI and large language models LLMs are reshaping industries, driving automation, enhancing customer experiences, optimizing processes, and unlocking business opportunities for modern enterprises. However, this rapid...

Advancing Cybersecurity Management With Qualys Cloud Agent

In the first part of our series, we discussed the significant enhancements in Reduced Activity Periods RAP and Enhanced Capabilities for VDI in the Qualys Cloud Agent. In this second part of the series, we continue our exploration into the other two pivotal enhancements of this upgrade: 1. Agent...

Qualys Launches Inaugural Cyber Risk Summit to Share Expert Insights

Cybersecurity professionals from all over are making their way to RSA’s annual conference this week in search of inspiration and expert advice on bolstering their security postures. But for those who could not disrupt their schedules to make the trip, Qualys is providing IT and security...

Achieve Federal-Grade M365 Security: Governing with Qualys SSPM and SCuBA

Qualys SaaS Security Posture Management SSPM introduces native support for the Secure Cloud Business Applications SCuBA compliance framework, bringing CISA's toughest M365 security benchmarks directly into your continuous posture monitoring workflow. Key Takeaways CISA’s Secure Cloud Business...

Converge Connect: Unlock Lower Premiums with Proven Qualys Security

Key Takeaways Qualys, in collaboration with Converge, has launched an offering that ties your security posture to your cyber insurance costs. The Qualys Converge Connect Insurance Report CCIR supplements manual insurance questionnaires with objective, platform-generated, real-time security data...

Cyber Essentials Plus in 2026: Strengthened Controls, UK Cyber Reality & How Qualys Supports Compliance

Key Takeaways CE+ 2026 Updates: Effective April 2026, Cyber Essentials Plus requires stronger technical proof of control effectiveness, mandatory MFA, and tighter patching windows. Cloud and Identity in Scope: Audits now explicitly include cloud services and identity configurations, demanding...

Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026 Signal the Maturation of Risk-First Security Models

Key Takeaways Cyber risk management gets operationalized in 2026. Leading organizations move beyond visibility and frameworks to govern risk through prioritization, simulation, and deliberate action. Attack-path modeling matures into execution. Static views give way to dynamic, decision-driving...

Active Exploitation of 7-Zip RCE Vulnerability Shows Why Manual Patching is No Longer an Option

A critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability in 7-Zip CVE-2025-11001 is now being actively exploited. The issue stems from improper handling of symbolic links within crafted ZIP files. When a malicious archive is extracted, 7-Zip may write files outside the intended directory, allowing an...

Securing Cloud AI and LLMs with TotalAI for Visibility, Risk Context and Control

As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, large language models LLMs hosted on public cloud platforms are quickly becoming the norm due to their simplified access and pricing model. Cloud-native services like AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, and Google Vertex AI offer powerful, pay-as-you-go access to...

Achieving Zero-Disruption Patch Management with Qualys’ Latest Capabilities

Keeping systems patched is essential, but doing it efficiently and confidently is what sets great IT operations apart. With the latest capabilities in Qualys Patch Management, you can achieve just that. The most recent advancements in Qualys Patch Management – Intelligent Job Chaining and...