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Outlook must move to cloud, says Qualys CEO
Blog Philippe Courtot, the chief executive of Qualys, has just given a speech. I'm at an event called "CSO Interchange" in London today. In it he compared Microsoft's current business model with cloud giants like Google.
[December 4, 2008, 12:05]
Security flaws found for free, claims Qualys
News Security vendor Qualys is offering a free scanning service for the 20 most serious vulnerabilities recognised by SANS, a global non-profit security training organisation. The 20 vulnerabilities which Qualys will look for were chosen to help...
[May 3, 2005, 16:30]
Security firms show united front
News With an eye to guiding companies on which software problems to patch first, Cisco, Symantec and Qualys plan to launch a joint grading system for security vulnerabilities. The ratings will consist of three numbers, Gerhard Eschelbeck, the chief...
[February 16, 2005, 8:25]
Patching 'still too difficult'
News Vulnerability-assessment firm Qualys supported the statements, made during a panel discussion at the RSA Security Conference, with data culled from monitoring its clients' networks. That's far too long to wait to fix the worst security flaws, said...
[February 25, 2004, 8:10]
Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance Overview
White Papers This demo introduces you to Qualys' award-winning, on-demand vulnerability management platform, illustrating the solution's unique capabilities for handling each of these vital security auditing functions:
[March 30, 2007, 0:00]
Letting go of your security worries
News It all adds up to a significant opportunity for companies such as Qualys and its rival, AlertSite, which also sells hosted vulnerability management. By marketing itself as a low-cost, rapidly installed alternative for companies looking to improve...
[May 26, 2005, 13:35]
Flaws don't die - study
News The vulnerabilities exploited by the Code Red and SQL Slammer worms, for example, are allowing those threats to reassert themselves on the Internet, said Gerhard Eschelbeck, chief technology officer for vulnerability-assessment company Qualys.
[July 31, 2003, 8:40]
Microsoft plugs critical holes in Windows
News An attacker can send you an email with an infected image in it or you can go to a website with an infected image or get it elsewhere, from a thumbdrive," said Wolfgang Kandek, chief technology officer of Qualys, which helps companies with security...
[March 11, 2009, 8:03]
Microsoft plugs 21 security holes
News There has never been a Microsoft security update to address 21 issues and never one with 19 potential remote execution flaws," said Amol Sarwate, the manager of the Vulnerability Management Lab at flaw management specialist Qualys.
[June 14, 2006, 9:55]
Windows attack code released
News While Windows 2000 is an older operating system, it is still broadly used, primarily in businesses, said vulnerability management company Qualys. We scan about 10 million hosts every month, and at least 25 percent of those still run Windows 2000...
[November 17, 2006, 9:29]
Bringing law to the security jungle
News Now is the time to move to the next phase of deploying CVSS and getting additional vendors on board," Gerhard Eschelbeck, one of the designers of the rating scheme and chief technology officer at vulnerability management company Qualys, said Friday.
[September 19, 2005, 9:10]
FBI aims to patch security holes
News Gerhard Eschelbeck, vice president of engineering for security service provider Qualys, said the company would offer a free scan for the SANS-FBI Top 20 vulnerabilities to any network owner. While he didn't comment on whether Qualys would support...
[October 1, 2002, 13:23]
Worm spread shows hole in patch system
News Only about 50 percent of Windows computers have had the patch applied in the last month, a typical half-life, a Qualys study found. Patching is only one facet of a corporate security strategy and should be considered fallible as best, said Gerhard...
[August 13, 2003, 9:35]
New patches close 20 holes in Windows
News You can't generalise that Microsoft takes too long to fix flaws," said Gerhard Eschelbeck, chief technology officer for vulnerability assessment company Qualys. Qualys found two of the flaws that Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
[April 14, 2004, 8:30]
Businesses warned: Don't try to resist the cloud
News This was the claim of Philippe Courtot, chairman of security company Qualys, speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week. There may be a number of unresolved security issues around cloud computing — but if you try to resist the trend...
[April 28, 2009, 9:22]
'Huge jump' in Microsoft flaws since last year
News The past year has seen a massive increase in the number of flaws found in Microsoft software, according to vulnerability-scanning company Qualys. Between 2006 and 2007, there was an almost threefold rise in Microsoft flaws, Qualys said on Wednesday.
[November 29, 2007, 7:12]
Word 2000 flaw still lacks patch
News What's not there is more news than what is there, from what we can see," said Amol Sarwate, research manager at vulnerability management company Qualys.The first thing we noticed is a lack of a patch for the Microsoft Word vulnerability at large...
[September 13, 2006, 10:15]
Oracle moves to monthly patches
News The most important aspect here is that information technology groups can schedule updates and rollouts and you don't have a surprise patch-of-the-day," said Gerhard Eschelbeck, chief technology officer of vulnerability assessment firm Qualys.
[August 20, 2004, 9:10]
Microsoft suffers patch problems
News Although there are only 10 patches, they address 26 vulnerabilities, and it's the largest release for Microsoft this year," said Jonathan Bitle, manager of technical accounts at Qualys. IT administrators may want to work particularly quickly in...
[October 11, 2006, 9:40]
Cloud Security Alliance set to launch at RSA
News The Cloud Security Alliance, whose founding members include eBay, PGP Corporation and Qualys, is seeking to promote the best ways to secure cloud computing and outline how to use cloud computing for the protection of other types of computing.
[April 2, 2009, 13:17]
