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...

Oracle Critical Patch Update, October 2025 Security Update Review

Oracle released its third quarterly edition of this year’s Critical Patch Update. The update received patches for 374 security vulnerabilities. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed in this update impact more than one product. These patches address vulnerabilities in various product families,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Introducing TruLens for Enterprise TruRisk™ Management: Unified Threat Intelligence

CISOs and security leaders today face extraordinary challenges: the constant influx of vast quantities of fragmented threat data, information that lacks the context necessary for their unique organizations, and mounting operational gaps that hinder genuine risk reduction. The need has shifted fro...

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,...

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...

Ensuring Safe and Reliable Updates with Qualys TruRisk™ Manifest Version Control

The Fragility of “One Bad Update” In cybersecurity, speed is non-negotiable. New vulnerabilities surface daily, and enterprises expect coverage the moment exploits are in the wild. For years, the mantra was simple: push signatures fast, and you reduce risk. Faster updates meant faster protection...

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,...

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...

Qualys Named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Exposure Management Vendor Assessment

We’re proud to announce that Qualys has been recognized as a Leader in theIDC MarketScape: Worldwide Exposure Management 2025 Vendor Assessment doc US52994525, August 2025. We believe this recognition underscores Qualys’ commitment to helping organizations proactively manage cyber risk with...

How Agentic AI Powers Seamless Audit Readiness with Agent Chang

Audits are rarely simple. Security and compliance teams often find themselves buried in repetitive, time-consuming tasks—collecting logs from multiple systems, exporting reports from various tools, and manually reconciling data in spreadsheets. Evidence must be traced back to the correct controls...

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...

Steps to TruRisk™ – 5: Eliminate Risk and Lead with Confidence

“We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire … Give us the tools and we will finish the job.” – Winston Churchill Every security team knows this truth: you can’t patch everything, and you can’t necessarily protect everything. Perfection is rare, but decisive execution can change...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, September 2025 Security Update Review

It's the second Tuesday of September, and Microsoft has rolled out its latest security updates. Microsoft's September 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...

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...

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...

Salesloft Drift Supply Chain Incident

We recently became aware of a widespread Salesloft / Drift supply chain incident that impacted third-party integrations with Drift. We are providing this update as part of our commitment to transparency and keeping our customers informed about the security of our platform and products. The key...

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...

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...

Qualys Achieves FedRAMP® High ATO: Unlocking the Future of Trusted Cybersecurity for Government and Critical Infrastructure

Today, federal agencies and their technology partners are operating in the most scrutinized risk environment in history. The stakes are clear: a breach in high-impact systems – those holding national security, healthcare, or financial data – can result in loss of life, catastrophic economic damag...

Chatbots, APIs, and the Hidden Risks Inside Your Application Stack

What happens when a legacy application quietly slips under the radar and ends up at the center of a security incident involving AI and APIs? For one global organization, this scenario played out in real time when an unusual chatbot behavior sparked a closer look into their recruitment platform,...

Introducing the Qualys App Picker: Easier, Faster Navigation for All Your Security Applications

Navigating your cybersecurity platform should be easy. That is why we have reimagined the way users access Qualys applications with the brand-new Qualys App Picker , a streamlined, intuitive navigation panel designed to make access faster, easier, and smarter in the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk...

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...

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...

Remediate WMI Class Corruption Errors with Qualys TruRisk™ Eliminate

When Windows Management Instrumentation WMI classes fail, it can disrupt critical security operations by causing vulnerability scans to miss important data and compliance reports to lack accuracy. These issues may lead to gaps in visibility, making it harder for security teams to maintain a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

From Exposure Whack-a-Mole to Autonomous Cyber Risk Management: Meet Agentic AI on the Qualys Platform

Cyber threats are increasing in both volume and sophistication, while the enterprise attack surface continues to expand. This puts immense pressure on security teams, who are already overwhelmed by tool sprawl and a flood of disconnected findings—often lacking the context needed to prioritize bas...

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...

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...

ToolShell Zero-day: Microsoft Rushes Emergency Patch for Actively Exploited SharePoint Vulnerabilities

On July 19, 2025, Microsoft issued an emergency out-of-band security update to address two zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Server: CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771. These vulnerabilities are under active exploitation in the wild and demand immediate attention to protect your...

Understanding the Impact of Scattered Spider on the Airline & Transportation Industry

In June, the FBI publicly warned that Scattered Spider is actively targeting the aviation and transportation sectors, including well-known airlines and their third-party IT vendors. In this post, we will provide a brief overview of Scattered Spider, insights gathered by our research team into the...

Smarter ITSM Automation with ServiceNow Integration

Effective Information Technology and Service Management ITSM today requires intelligent automation, proactive security, and seamless integration between platforms. To keep security operations efficient, vulnerability management workflows need to be streamlined and connected with broader IT...

Oracle Critical Patch Update, July 2025 Security Update Review

Oracle released its second quarterly edition of this year’s Critical Patch Update. The update received patches for 309 security vulnerabilities. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed in this update impact more than one product. These patches address vulnerabilities in various product families,...

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...

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...

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...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, July 2025 Security Update Review

With cybersecurity threats continuing to evolve, Microsoft's July 2025 Patch Tuesday highlights the need for consistent patching — this month's release includes key fixes for actively exploited vulnerabilities. Here's a quick breakdown of what you need to know. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 20...