Lessons from Qilin: What the Industry’s Most Efficient Ransomware Teaches Us

Qilin has quietly become one of the most active and impactful ransomware operations in the world today. If it’s not already on your threat radar, now is the time to take notice. This blog unpacks how Qilin operates, why it’s gaining traction across cybercriminal networks, and what steps security...

Qualys VMDR Wins at 2025 SC Awards Europe for Best Vulnerability Management Solution

We’re excited to share that Qualys VMDR Vulnerability Management, Detection, and Response has won the Best Vulnerability Management Solution for 3 years in row at 2025 SC Awards Europe , recognizing its market-leading innovation and measurable impact in reducing cyber risk for businesses worldwid...

Steps to TruRisk™ – 1: Shift to Priority-Driven Strategies

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” — Sun Tzu Security and IT teams are drowning in alerts, scrambling to patch everything they can, yet breaches still happen. Not all vulnerabilities pose the same risk. While reducing totals may seem like...

Streamline Security: Automate Database Compliance with Qualys Cloud Agent

Compliance audit failures remain a critical challenge for organizations, particularly in database security. According to the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report, nearly 43% of companies failed at least one compliance audit in the past year. This is a significant concern because audit failures correlat...

Qualys Adds Threat Intelligence for Typosquatting and Defamatory Domains to External Attack Surface Management

Cybersecurity professionals can now use Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management CSAM with External Attack Surface Management EASM to reduce cyber risks from credential harvesting, phishing, and malware downloads and diminish reputational harm. Bad actors have been registering look-alike, sound-alik...

NotLockBit: A Deep Dive Into the New Ransomware Threat

Overview NotLockBit is a new and emerging ransomware family that actively mimics the behavior and tactics of the well-known LockBit ransomware. It distinguishes itself by being one of the first fully functional ransomware strains to target macOS and Windows systems. Distributed as an x8664 golang...

Partnering for Security: Qualys Solutions for Microsoft Azure Linux in AKS

As customers transition from traditional workloads to containerized environments, they face significant challenges. Containers introduce a level of complexity that traditional security measures often fail to address, primarily due to their ephemeral nature and the shared responsibility model...

Driving CISA Compliance with Qualys

How CyberSecurity Asset Management with External Attack Surface Management Improves Compliance for the Protection of National Infrastructure Since 2018, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA of the U.S. government has focused on reducing risk and building resilience to cyber a...

Why API Discovery Is Critical for Modern AppSec Programs

Hidden API Estate And AI-speed Recon Are Reshaping Modern Application Risk Key Takeaways Unknown APIs create unattributed exposure , and such exposure rarely gets tested. Attackers build their own inventory through live reconnaissance; they do not wait for your spreadsheet. API discovery must pul...

Is Your AppSec Program Built to Close the OWASP Top 10 2025 Coverage Gap?

Key Takeaways Most AppSec programs treat API-layer coverage as a DAST extension, but BOLA, BFLA, and SSRF require authenticated multi-role testing that traditional scanners weren’t built to run at scale. Modern authentication flows OAuth2, JWT validation, MFA-protected sessions often fall outside...

Oracle Critical Patch Update, June 2026 Security Update Review

Oracle released its third quarterly edition of this year’s Critical Patch Update. The update received patches for 245 security vulnerabilities. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed in this update impact more than one product. These patches address vulnerabilities in various product families,...

FedRAMP High Authorized: Qualys TotalCloud CNAPP – From Compliance to Defense

Qualys TotalCloud has achieved FedRAMP High Authorization, marking a major milestone in delivering validated cloud security and compliance assurance for high-impact federal and regulated environments. Key Takeaways Qualys TotalCloud CNAPP is a FedRAMP High Authorized that enables continuous,...

The Mythos Inflection Point: Dealing With the Upcoming Vulnerability Disclosure Avalanche and Compressed Exploitation Window

Having spent years at Qualys working on vulnerability risk and remediation management, I have watched the disclosure and remediation cycles from every angle. I have seen vulnerability researchers find a critical flaw in OpenSSH and the industry scramble to respond. I have seen organizations...

Signals from the Cloud Security Forecast 2026: Cloud Risk Is Scaling through Design, Not Disruption

Key Takeaways Identity and permissions now determine what is reachable, making them the primary drivers of cloud risk. Runtime exposure, not individual findings, determines how low-risk issues combine into real impact. SaaS and OAuth integrations extend the control plane and amplify blast radius...

Optimizing Risk Discovery and Remediation with Qualys Gateway Service (QGS)

Unpatched vulnerabilities remain one of the largest drivers of cyber risk, accounting for nearly 60% of cyber compromises. Modern security programs are therefore measured not only by how quickly they discover risk, but also by how efficiently they remediate it. As organizations scale vulnerabilit...

Countering Current Geopolitical Cyber Threats With Qualys

Summary In response to the latest public sector threat intelligence on Iranian-linked threat activity, Qualys has released new intelligence capabilities within Qualys Vulnerability Management, Detection & Response VMDR to help organizations immediately assess their exposure. These updates extend...

TruConfirm: Autonomous, Agent-Led, Safe Exploit Validation for Real-World Risk Reduction

Key Takeaways CISOs still can’t answer the only question that matters: Is this exposure exploitable on this asset, in our production environment, against our controls, right now? The vulnerability firehose broke the old model: With 48,177 CVEs published in 2025, “critical” lists are too large to...

Your VMDR Year in Review: Making Security Progress Visible and Actionable

Security Teams Rarely Stop to Reflect When a security program is working well, very little seems to happen. That is by design. There is no alert for the incident that was prevented. No visibility into the attack path that was quietly closed. No recognition for the vulnerability that was fixed...

The Future of Cloud Security: A New Act for Cyber Risk Operations

Qualys, the leader in Cyber Risk Operations, is proud to be recognized in Latio Tech’s 2025 Cloud Security Market Report as a leader in both CTEM and the Cloud Security Ecosystem. This acknowledgement by Latio Tech reinforces the strength of our strategy—anchored by the industry’s first Risk...

What It Takes to Design Trust into Event-Driven Architectures with Amazon EventBridge

How disciplined design turns Amazon EventBridge from an open event bus into a system of verified trust. Event-driven architecture has become essential for achieving agility in the cloud. Yet as integrations multiply, so do the hidden pathways that adversaries can exploit. Amazon EventBridge helps...

Bringing the Power of Agentic AI for Identity Risk, Adaptive Threat Prioritization, and Exposure Exploitability Validation

Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management ETM extends the power of risk operations with agentic AI — Introducing ETM Identity, TruLens for industry-based threat prioritization, and TruConfirm exposure exploitability validation to accelerate your remediation. Every year at our yearly conference, now...

Qualys ETM Identity — The First True Quantification of the Identity Perimeter

Security has always been about controlling who can do what and where. In 2025, that control is mediated entirely by identity. When an attacker “logs in,” not "breaks in", they inherit legitimate permissions, blend into normal telemetry, and pivot across AD, Entra/Okta, SaaS, and cloud, driving...

Navigating SEBI’s Cloud Security Requirements: A Guide for Regulated Entities

Overview: Who is impacted: The Securities and Exchange Board of India SEBI is the primary regulatory authority for the securities market in India. It was established to protect investor interests and promote market development, but its guidelines also impact cybersecurity professionals at regulat...

The State of Cyber Risk 2025: Business Context Needed

The cyber risk conversation is changing. Momentum is growing for formal cyber risk programs. However, despite rising investments, evolving frameworks, and more vocal boardroom interest, new data reveals that most organizations remain immature in their risk management programs, and cyber risk is...

Google Chrome to Distrust Chunghwa & Netlock Certificates: How Qualys Certificate View Helps You Respond

In a major change to the global certificate ecosystem, Google Chrome has announced that it will no longer trust any new digital certificates issued by Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock, two long-standing Certificate Authorities CAs, after July 31, 2025. This move is part of Chrome’s ongoing efforts to...

Qualys & ServiceNow: Automating Risk-Driven Remediation for Container Security

Introducing the Qualys & ServiceNow Integration Qualys and ServiceNow are redefining container vulnerability management with an integrated approach that streamlines remediation for highly ephemeral containerized workloads. Organizations can now seamlessly detect, prioritize, and remediate...

The Future of Cybersecurity Risk Management: Risk Operations Center (ROC) delivered by Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Management (ETM)

" A problem well defined is a problem half solved." – Charles Kettering In today’s digital landscape, organizations are overwhelmed with risk signals from all directions—cloud vulnerabilities, misconfigurations in custom code, operational technology OT gaps, and third-party integrations, to name ...

TotalCloud Insights: Hidden Risks of Amazon S3 Misconfigurations

Misconfiguring Amazon S3 Buckets Can Pose Major Risks Amazon Web Services AWS is the world’s largest cloud security provider, and it provides the ability to store massive amounts of cloud-resident data with the Amazon Simple Storage Service S3 bucket. Amazon S3 is an object storage solution known...

Oracle Critical Patch Update, April 2026 Security Update Review

Oracle released its second quarterly edition of this year’s Critical Patch Update. The update received patches for 481 security vulnerabilities. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed in this update impact more than one product. These patches address vulnerabilities in various product families,...

Why Every Enterprise Needs a Risk Operations Center (ROC)

Enterprise security has long optimized for speed of response over prevention of risk. At Qualys, we recognized early that this left half the problem unsolved, and we have spent years building the operational frameworks to close that gap. The Risk Operations Center is the result. Here is a scenari...

Bringing Continuous Assessment to Harbor: Scan on Push, Stay Secure Over Time

Key Takeaways Harbor environments often run separate scanners, such as Trivy at build time and Qualys at runtime, leading to repeated full-image rescans across hundreds of thousands of images and increasing compute usage, scan time, and operational costs. Integrating QScanner with Harbor eliminat...

5 Steps to Turn Compliance Checks into Audit Outcomes

Key Takeaways Audit readiness remains reactive in many organizations, even though security and compliance teams generate continuous findings, evidence, and control data across multiple systems. The real challenge is the gap between compliance activity and audit outcomes, where large volumes of da...

Agent Grant: From Identity Signals to Measurable Risk Reduction

Executive Summary Identity is now the 1 attack surface. Agent Grant in Qualys ETM Identity uses agentic AI to measure and reduce identity risk across AD, Entra, Okta & other cloud IdPs/IDaaS. It operationalizes identity risk by turning messy Active Directory & identity-risk signals into validated...

What is Patch Management Automation and Why It Matters

Executive Summary Environments rarely stay as orderly as they begin. New workloads, faster releases, and growing attack surfaces stretch manual patching beyond its limits. The real risk emerges in the widening gap between spotting a vulnerability and fixing it. Automated patch management closes...

How to Prevent NPM Supply Chain Attacks in CI/CD Pipelines with Container Security

Introduction Containerized applications power the backbone of modern software delivery. But with speed comes risk. Vulnerabilities and embedded secrets can slip through the cracks long before they hit production. The result? Alert fatigue, noisy false positives, and critical exposures that disrup...

Outdated Tech, Rising Risk: How Federal Agencies Can Eliminate Tech Debt and Reduce Cyber Risk

Amid shrinking budgets and workforce pressures, your agency, like many across the federal government, is likely grappling with the growing challenge of technical debt tech debt. Tech debt, the accumulation of outdated or under-maintained technology, can slow progress and put your agency’s mission...

Operationalizing Threat Exposure with Agentic AI: Meet Agent Nova

The Challenge: From Endless Dashboards to Fast, Precise Answers Security teams today are inundated with dashboards, data feeds, and complex queries. When every second counts, what they really need are clear answers and next steps delivered instantly. That is where Agent Nova, powered by Agentic A...

Two Pwnie Awards, One Crucial Lesson: What Our OpenSSH Research Reveals About Cyber Defense in 2025

We’re honored that the Pwnie Awards recognized the Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU with two wins at Black Hat/DEF CON this year—Best RCE for regreSSHion CVE-2024-6387 and Epic Achievement for our multi-year work uncovering issues in OpenSSH, including CVE-2025-26465. Awards are nice; what matters...

Compliance Without Coverage is a Risk: How to Close the Gaps with Qualys Policy Audit

Modern compliance and security programs often fail due to technology blind spots rather than weak policies or procedures. Today's IT environments, spanning hybrid, cloud-native, containerized, and legacy platforms, introduce complexities that traditional compliance tools can't fully address. When...

Qualys Named an Overall Leader in CNAPP by KuppingerCole

We’re proud to share that Qualys has been named an Overall Leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms CNAPP—achieving leadership positions in both product and market presence. This recognition validates our commitment to delivering truste...

Ensure PCI 4.0 Readiness with File Integrity Monitoring for Containers

Compliance isn’t optional. But it’s never been more complex. The rise of containers has revolutionized modern infrastructure—enabling faster innovation and greater scalability. But with this transformation comes a new wave of compliance challenges. PCI DSS 4.0 introduces stricter requirements for...

How Qualys Policy Compliance Helps You Adopt NIST AI RMF 1.0

Artificial Intelligence AI technologies are reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. But while these technologies present incredible opportunities for innovation, they also pose unique risks. AI systems are no longer just futuristic concepts; they are actively influencing business decisions...

What is Cloud Scanning, and Why Does It Matter?

Cloud environments continue to experience widespread adoption because of their flexibility and dynamic nature. They empower developers to quickly deploy or modify business applications and many other core business functions. However, this very dynamism and complexity also make them difficult to...

Qualys Web Application Scanning (WAS) Recognized as a Leader in 2024 GigaOm Radar Report for Application Security Testing (AST)

In the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, securing web applications and APIs is no longer an option—it’s a necessity. As organizations face increasingly complex threats, ensuring the integrity of these digital assets has become paramount. However, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer...

Adobe Fixes Flash, PDF reader and Photoshop in April

Adobe released five security bulletins today following a pre-notification which was released on Thursday of last week. Highest priority goes to the Flash update APSB17-10 as flash has been the top choice for malware and exploit kits. If left un-patched, the vulnerabilities allow attackers to take...

CVE-2026-8933: Local Privilege Escalation in Set-Capabilities snap-confine

The Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU has identified a Local Privilege Escalation LPE vulnerability in snap-confine CVE-2026-8933. This flaw allows an unprivileged local user to gain full root access on default installations of Ubuntu Desktop 24.04, 25.10, and 26.04. The issue stems from a security...

The Rise of Managed Risk Operations: How the New Qualys mROC Portal Helps Partners Scale the Risk Operations Center

Key Takeaways The mROC Portal acts as a portfolio-wide command center, giving partners unified visibility into high-risk customer environments, active threats, and critical exposures to drive prioritized, portfolio-wide risk management. Partners can filter risk, drill into any customer, and take...

Cloud Agent in 2025: A Year of Scale, Security, and Smarter Visibility

As we move into 2026, 2025 stands out as a defining year for the Qualys Cloud Agent. In 2025, Cloud Agent delivered deeper visibility into running systems and applications , stronger security controls , expanded support across operating systems and architectures , and meaningful platform...

Navigating Change: Evolving Your Exposure Management Strategy in a Post-Kenna World with Qualys

Key Takeaways Cisco is ending support for it vuln management product formerly Kenna Security by June 2028 Risk-based vulnerability management RBVM used to be adequate, but is no longer sufficient Exposure assessment platforms allow you to assess risks from all organizational risk surfaces SOC...

Patch Tuesday Risk Elimination with Agent Sara

Introduction Risk elimination is the goal of any vulnerability management program. It is typically achieved through a combination of patching and scripting solutions. SecOps teams usually prioritize vulnerabilities and forward them to IT teams for remediation. However, the real challenge lies in...