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Qualys Receives Dubai Electronic Security Center (DESC) Certification

March 12, 2024

Deepak

Qualys has announced it has received cloud service provider (CSP) certification from the Dubai Electronic Security Center (DESC). The certification confirms that Qualys’ cloud services, within the certification scope, operate according to DESC’s CSP Security Standard requirements. This allows Qualys to extend its cloud-native services to a range of public-sector organisations in the Emirate of Dubai. DESC was established to develop best practices to make Dubai a cybersecurity and information protection leader. The centre develops its standards and policies, including […]

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Qualys Unveils TotalCloud 2.0 With TruRisk Insights

February 14, 2024

Deepak

Cloud security vendor Qualys has unveiled TotalCloud 2.0. This significant upgrade to Qualys’ AI-powered cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) delivers a single prioritized view of cloud risk and is the first to extend its protection to SaaS applications. The shift toward multi-cloud and SaaS environments presents organizations with the opportunity for innovation and agility but also introduces complex security challenges. This has led to the adoption of numerous security tools, each providing different and sometimes conflicting perspectives on the organization’s risk […]

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Veritas 360 Defense To Deliver Cyber Resilience On-prem And Across Clouds

October 24, 2023

Deepak

Veritas Technologies has announced Veritas 360 Defense, the first extensible architecture in its space that brings together leading data protection, data governance, and data security capabilities. Veritas 360 Defense delivers a unique set of cyber resilience capabilities integrated with leading security vendors, such as CrowdStrike, CyberArk, Qualys, Semperis and Symantec by Broadcom. Veritas 360 Defense has been battle tested against real-world ransomware variants in the Veritas REDLab. Recent research has shown that it takes 73 days, on average, to identify and […]

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Qualys Announces First-Party Software Risk Management Solution

August 8, 2023

Deepak

Qualys has announced it is opening up its award-winning risk management platform to AppSec teams to bring their own detections to assess, prioritise and remediate the risk associated with first-party software and its embedded open-source components. In the digital transformation era, every organisation develops its own software to run its business. This first-party, or company-developed, software often lacks the disciplined vulnerability and configuration management practices used for third-party software. Studies have shown that over 90% of first-party software includes open-source […]

Travis Smith, vice president of Threat Research Unit (TRU) at Qualys

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Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) Launches 2023 TruRisk Research Report

March 30, 2023

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Qualys has released its 2023 TruRisk Research Report. The report traverses the global number of vulnerabilities detected by Qualys in 2022 — upwards of 2.3 billion. The findings of the report match the opportunistic behavior of threat actors who continue to be agile in modifying techniques to achieve successful exploits. As digital transformation across businesses and governments is increasingly leveraged to accelerate productivity, new software tools to underpin these initiatives and programs are being developed quicker than ever. As technology […]

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Qualys Expands Cloud Platform to Reduce Risk

February 21, 2023

Deepak

Qualys has announced the expansion of its TruRisk platform to serve the needs of both large enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses. The new offerings, VMDR TruRisk packages and Enterprise TruRisk Management, will help organizations reduce cyber risk across their infrastructure and drive business growth. Qualys’ new packaging combines Vulnerability Management Detection and Response (VMDR), Patch Management and Multi-Vector EDR into tailored offerings for small and medium-sized businesses. These packages, VMDR TruRisk, VMDR TruRisk FixIT and VMDR TruRisk ProtectIT, offer […]

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Qualys Acquires Blue Hexagon’s AI/Machine Learning Platform

November 1, 2022

Deepak

Qualys has announced it acquired the assets of Blue Hexagon. This brings AI/machine learning (AI/ML) to the Qualys Cloud Platform to help convert petabytes of highly integrated data into meaningful insights for customers. This acquisition will enable Qualys to leverage its powerful Cloud Platform and its more than 10 trillion data points to uncover behavior patterns including active vulnerability exploitation, identification of advanced network threats, and adaptive risk mitigation across all assets and applications. This dynamic combination of highly integrated […]

Cyber Security

Critical bug found in a mail server software

June 26, 2019

Editor

Tomas Foltyn, security writer at ESET discusses that a critical bug has been found in one of the most popular mail server software, Exim and if it is exploited, the security hole in Exim could allow attackers to run arbitrary commands on vulnerable mail servers.

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Vulnerabilities in business VPNs can be risky

March 8, 2024

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Márk Szabó, PR and Security Writer at ESET explains that as adversaries increasingly set their sights on vulnerable enterprise VPN software to infiltrate corporate networks, concerns mount about VPNs themselves being a source of cyber risk.

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