Global IT Asset Inventory: The Foundation for Security and Compliance

Pablo Quiroga, Qualys’ Director of Product Management for IT Asset Management, talks about the new Asset Inventory solution When IT directors and CISOs look at their digitally transformed networks, they encounter many shadows that their legacy enterprise software tools can’t illuminate. These bli...

Capital One: Building Security Into DevOps

Capital One prides itself on staying at the forefront of IT innovations to give its business a competitive edge. For example, it adopted Agile software-development methodologies years ago, and uses artificial intelligence and machine learning. It was the first bank to implement a mobile wallet wi...

Infosec Teams Race To Secure DevOps

With DevOps adoption spreading, infosec teams are scrambling to address the new security challenges stemming from DevOps’ accelerated code development and app deployment. But while IT organizations have made notable progress adapting security to their DevOps processes, work remains to be done...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.35 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.35 includes updates and new features for AssetView, Cloud Agent, Security Assessment Questionnaire, and Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. Note: this post has been edited after publishing to remove the Rule-Based Method to...

QSC18 Takeaway: Complex Environments Demand Visibility and Real-Time Security

If there were two important takeaways from this year's Qualys Security Conference year they would be how today’s complex hybrid environments are demanding security teams find ways to increase visibility into the state of their security posture and be able to quickly mitigate new risks as they...

SSL Labs Grade Change for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 Protocols

Update 11/30/18: Now live on ssllabs.com: In Configuration-Protocols section “TLS 1.1” text color will be changed to Orange by end of November 2018 TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 protocols will be removed from browsers at the beginning of 2020. As there are no fixes or patches that can adequately fix SSL or...

QSC18: API Security, Enabling Innovation Without Enabling Attacks and Data Breaches

Without APIs, it would be near impossible to see enterprises being able to digitally transform themselves. After all, APIs are the connective-tissue between applications and systems and they make the management, automation and consumption of technology possible at scale. APIs are what enable...

QSC18 Day 1 Takeaway: Continuous Transformation Demands Continuous Security

The first day of Qualys Security Conference 2018 was a big one. Both CEO Philippe Courtot and Qualys chief product officer Sumedh Thakar detailed the challenges faced by many of today’s enterprises when it comes to the growth of cloud and the complexity of their hybrid environments. And they shar...

QSC18: The Need for Security Visibility in the Age of Digital Transformation

Enterprises are moving full steam ahead when it comes to their digital transformation efforts. They’ve aggressively adopted cloud infrastructure and other cloud services, IoT, application containers, serverless functionality, and other technologies that are helping their organization to drive...

November 2018 Patch Tuesday – 62 Vulns, TFTP Server RCE, Adobe PoC

This month's Patch Tuesday addresses 62 vulnerabilities, with 12 of them labeled as Critical. Out of the Criticals, 8 are for the Chakra Scripting Engine used by Microsoft Edge. A Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Windows Deployment Services' TFTP server is also addressed in this release...

Welcome to Qualys Security Conference 2018

The rise of cloud computing coupled with DevOps is forcing enterprises to rewrite their cybersecurity playbook, and part of that book will be written this week at Qualys Security Conference 2018 in Las Vegas. Today, the dual cloud and DevOps mega-trends are helping companies to digitally transfor...

Bluetooth Chip Bugs Affect Enterprise Wi-Fi, as Hackers Exploit Cisco 0-Day

In this latest roundup of cyber security news, we look at serious Bluetooth chip-level bugs, a zero-day vulnerability on Cisco software, a raft of Apple security fixes, and a massive customer data breach at Cathay Pacific. Enterprise Wi-Fi access points vulnerable to Bluetooth bug A pair of...

Don’t Overlook Qualys Malware Detection

Cyber criminals are constantly looking for opportunities to infect legitimate websites with malware. They can use infected websites to cryptomine, steal data, hijack systems, deface pages, and do other damage to harm a company’s reputation and impact their users. This can result in lost revenue,...

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...

Apple, Amazon in a Tussle with Bloomberg over Spy Chips Report

In our latest security news digest, we delve into the brouhaha over Chinese spy chips, check out the latest in Facebook's investigation of its recent hack, and look at Google's controversial decision to delay disclosing a potential data breach. Bloomberg's spy chip report stuns tech industry, the...

Qualys Broadens Security Offerings for Azure

Qualys is expanding its security and compliance capabilities for Microsoft Azure, by adding protection for the on-premises Azure Stack and extending capabilities for public cloud deployments. By using Qualys’ platform to defend hybrid IT environments, organizations get a unified view of their...

PCI & QID 38598 “Deprecated Public Key Length”

QID 38598 “Deprecated Public Key Length” will be marked as PCI Fail as of November 1, 2018 in accordance with its CVSS score. Under PCI DSS merchants and financial institutions are required to protect their clients' sensitive data with strong cryptography. Strong cryptography is defined in the...

October 2018 Patch Tuesday – 49 Vulns, Critical browser patches, Hyper-V, Adobe vulns

In this month’s Patch Tuesday release there are 49 vulnerabilities patched with 12 Criticals. Out of the criticals, over half are browser-related, with the rest including Hyper-V and MSXML Parser. Microsoft Exchange covers CVE-2010-3190 which was not identified as in-scope product when originally...

Stronger Security with Global IT Asset Inventory

On a Friday afternoon before a long holiday weekend, a company’s security operations center receives a potentially serious alert: It appears that a domain controller has been tampered with. After examining event logs and overlaying network traffic, a SOC analyst confirms that a suspicious system...

Hackers Exploit Facebook Bug, As Twitter DMs (Maybe) Got Misrouted

In our latest security news digest, we check out the Facebook hack heard 'round the world, a Twitter bug that rattled users but may not amount to much, and a pair of serious Linux kernel vulnerabilities. Facebook scrambles to investigate major breach affecting tens of millions of users The cyber...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.34.1 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.34.1 includes updates and new features for Cloud Agent & AWS EC2 Connector, AssetView, CloudView, and Security Assessment Questionnaire, highlights as follows. Cloud Agent & AWS EC2 Connector Automatic Merge of Cloud Agents running in Amazon Web...

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...

Qualys Helps Consultants, MSPs Deliver World-Class Security Services To Mid-Size Customers

With the newly available Qualys Consulting Edition, consultants and MSPs can now individually manage their mid-market client networks, keeping data separate and organized. This lets them offer their clients tailored, personalized services, with valuable insights and recommendations for threat...

September 2018 Patch Tuesday – 61 Vulns, FragmentSmack, Hyper-V Escape

In this month’s Patch Tuesday release there are 61 vulnerabilities patched with 17 Criticals. Out of the criticals, most are browser-related, with the rest including Windows, Hyper-V, and .net Framework. A vulnerability CVE-2018-8475 in Windows' image parsing has been publicly disclosed, in...

Call for Customer Presentations: Qualys Security Conference 2018

The annual Qualys user conference, QSC18, is quickly approaching, and we are looking for customer presentations showcasing how you use Qualys to enable security best practices and secure your digital transformation. If you would like to be considered as a presenter, please send a session title an...

British Airways Hack Triggers GDPR Concerns, as World Awaits Windows 0-Day Patch

A swipe of confidential data from almost 400,000 British Airways customers. A string of app takedowns at the Mac App Store after exfiltration findings. A gargantuan data breach at a Chinese hotel chain. An unpatched zero-day Windows bug exploited in the wild. These are some of the security news...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

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 Cloud Platform 8.15.1 New Features

This new patch release of the Qualys Cloud Platform, version 8.15.1, includes updates to Qualys Vulnerability Management. Vulnerability Management IP Update Handling for Agents – External IP address for Agents will no longer overwrite previous internal IP address when an internal address is not...

GDPR 101: Monitoring & Maintaining Compliance After the Deadline

Discussions about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR reached a crescendo on May 25, the compliance deadline, but many companies continue seeking guidance. The reason: A majority of companies missed the deadline, according to estimates from various sources, including Gartner, Crowd...

Securing Container Deployments with Qualys

With container adoption booming, security teams must protect the applications that DevOps teams create and deploy using this method of OS virtualization. The security must be comprehensive across the entire container lifecycle, and built into the DevOps pipeline in a way that is seamless and...

How New Passive Network Sensor Boosts Platform Capabilities

Black Hat attendees got a peek at Qualys Passive Network Sensor PNS, a product that amplifies the already comprehensive IT asset visibility Qualys provides to its customers. By adding real-time network analysis to Qualys’ versatile set of sensors, PNS eliminates blind spots across IT environments...

Security News: Hackers Aim Ransomware at Big Cos., as Experts Call for Swift Patching of Struts Bug

Ransomware raids aimed at specific targets with big pockets. Another Struts vulnerability -- but scarier than last year’s. An Android spyware that records your phone calls. These are some of the security news that have caught our attention. New Struts Bug Should Be Patched Yesterday Apache patche...

Detecting Apache Struts 2 Namespace RCE: CVE-2018-11776

A new remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Struts 2, CVE-2018-11776, was disclosed yesterday. While this vulnerability does not exist with a default configuration of Struts, it does exist in commonly seen configurations for some Struts plugins. Update August 24, 2018: A dashboard for thi...

Black Hat USA 2018 Best Practices Videos

Watch the presentations from the Qualys booth at Black Hat USA 2018, available online now. Learn how your peers are securing their environments and see the breadth and depth of Qualys solutions. Industry-Leading Best Practices Qualys customers explain how they run their industry-leading security...

August Patch Tuesday – 63 Vulns, L1TF (Foreshadow), Exchange, SQL, Active Attacks on IE flaw

In this month's Patch Tuesday release there are 63 vulnerabilities patched with 20 Criticals. Out of the criticals, over half are browser-related, with the rest including Windows, SQL, and Exchange. Active exploits have been detected against CVE-2018-8373, one of the scripting engine...

Introducing a Burp Extension for Integration with Qualys Web Application Scanning

Qualys offers a wide array of security and compliance solutions for your organization. All capabilities are delivered from Qualys Cloud Platform. Visit Qualys Cloud Platform Apps to learn more. But let's narrow the discussion to web application security. To have a complete webappsec program, it's...

Security News: WannaCry Surfaces in Taiwan, as Reddit Breach Puts 2FA in the Spotlight

WannaCry rears its ugly head again. Reddit gets hacked, despite using two-factor authentication. A cryptojacking campaign targets carrier-grade routers. Here are some recent security industry news that have caught our attention. WannaCry hits Taiwan Semi The notorious WannaCry ransomware...

Qualys BrowserCheck CoinBlocker Protects Users From Active Cryptojacking Campaigns

Qualys Malware Research Labs recently released the Qualys BrowserCheck CoinBlocker Chrome Extension. We have seen enthusiastic adoption from users across the globe in the first week since its release, which has given us enough telemetry data to indicate success in protecting users from popular...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.34 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.34 includes updates and new features for Cloud Agent, EC2 Connector, Continuous Monitoring, Security Assessment Questionnaire, Web Application Scanning, and Web Application Firewall, highlights as follows. Cloud Agent Automatic Merge of Cloud...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, SCA, PC) 8.15 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, SCA, PC, version 8.15, includes several new improvements across the VM, PC, and SCA Apps including new IPv6 configuration options for the scanner, improvements to several VM reports including ability to display EC2 metadata, a new Policy Complianc...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

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,...

Eager to Boost your Container Security? Don’t Miss this Webcast

DevOps teams can’t get enough of containers -- and for good reason. Faster and more efficient application development and deployment, as well as increased application portability, are some container technology benefits, which in turn help drive digital transformation efforts. Container-based...

Security News: Bluetooth Bug Triggers Patch Frenzy, as Ransomware Attack Hits Global Shipper

A scary Bluetooth bug. A crippling ransomware attack. A cyber threat to the U.S. electrical grid. A data leak of trade secrets from major car makers such as Tesla and GM. These were some of the security industry news that caught our eye last week. Bluetooth vulnerability rattles vendors, end user...

Staying Safe in the Era of Browser-based Cryptocurrency Mining

Qualys Malware Research Labs is announcing the release of Qualys BrowserCheck CoinBlocker Chrome extension to detect and block browser-based cryptocurrency mining, aka cryptojacking. Cryptojacking Cryptojacking attacks leverage the victim system’s resources via malicious JavaScript to mine certai...

SAQ Enables Users to Pick and Choose Questions for Custom Templates

Qualys Security Assessment Questionnaire SAQ has been enhanced with new features for questionnaire templates, which enable customers to choose questions that they want to include in their campaigns. The new Question Bank option in the SAQ Template Editor provides users with a repository of...

QSC18 Virtual Edition: Securing Containers – From Build to Deployments

DevOps teams have embraced Docker container technology because it boosts speed, agility, and flexibility in app development and delivery. But it also creates security and compliance challenges. “Containers are revolutionizing the IT landscape,” Hari Srinivasan, a Qualys Director of Product...

July Patch Tuesday – Critical browser patches, Lazy FP, Exchange, Adobe vulns

This month's Patch Tuesday is medium in weight, with 54 CVEs containing 17 Criticals. All but two of the Critical vulnerabilities are in Microsoft's browsers or browser-related technologies. An additional speculative execution vulnerability announced in June was patched as well. Adobe has also...

QSC18 Virtual Edition: Vulnerability Risk Management

When vulnerability risk management is proactive, organizations don’t have to hurriedly react to attacks that exploit bugs for which patches are available, as happened with WannaCry. “The vast majority of WannaCry remediation took place as an emergency type process,” Jimmy Graham, a Qualys Directo...

GDPR Is Here: How GDPR Readiness Can Boost Your Business

Most discussions about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR have naturally focused on best practices for achieving compliance and avoiding penalties. With GDPR now a reality for all companies that store and process personal data of EU residents, an often overlooked aspect has been the...