VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) ensures a cloud workflow that revolutionizes processes and is fundamental for an effective risk-based Vulnerability Management program
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, announced that Qualys VMDR® (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) has been recognized as a leader in next-generation vulnerability management (VM) technologies by Ovum, a leading industry analyst firm.
The research entitled Qualys Readies Its Next-gen Vulnerability Management Offering (Qualys redefines its next-generation vulnerability management offering) by Rik Turner, Principal Analyst, Infrastructure Solutions di Ovum, recognizes Qualys VMDR's merit in meeting the needs of organizations regarding the identification, classification and remediation of critical network vulnerabilities. According to Ovum, VMDR facilitates cybersecurity management by providing a complete, optimized and integrated operational flow that includes automatic patching. Turner notes that VMDR extends the concept of xDR, integrating not only threat visibility but also risk mitigation into the security strategy. With VMDR, organizations not only identify their most serious vulnerabilities but can take immediate action to manage them.
“Qualys boasts great experience in terms of innovation, having launched its vulnerability management solution on the market as a cloud service already in 1999. This innovative spirit has not abandoned the company, which today offers the first and only end-user VM platform to the industry's end, which includes everything from asset discovery to vulnerability assessment to patching and remediation prioritization,” Turner said. “With VMDR, organizations can finally complete the vulnerability management cycle in a single user interface, meeting their commitment to zero time to remediation.”
What makes VMDR the solution that revolutionizes the industry is the fact that it unifies the entire security and IT management flow into a single cloud service that identifies in real time any device that connects to the network. With this information, users can easily create and maintain an always-up-to-date global inventory of IT assets and asset groups, detecting vulnerabilities in real time, prioritizing, mitigating and remediating vulnerabilities across their entire hybrid IT environment, which includes on-premise equipment, endpoints, cloud, mobile devices, containers, web apps and APIs.
VMDR is the only solution that offers customers total visibility into their global IT environment with an advanced prioritization engine that accounts for account misconfigurations and potential digital certificate exposures. The result is a comprehensive, risk-based vulnerability management program that doesn't focus solely on common vulnerabilities, security holes, and arbitrary risk scores that can easily give a false impression of security.
“For many organizations, today's vulnerability management programs involve multiple teams, using layered solutions that often create more problems than they solve, including integration difficulties, false positives and, most importantly, critical delays in the patching process or containment of vulnerabilities,” he said Philippe Courtot, President and CEO of Qualys. “Qualys VMDR solves all these problems because it is an all-in-one, cloud-based solution that automates the entire vulnerability management cycle, significantly accelerating the company's ability to neutralize threats, and prevent violations, drastically reducing operating and licensing costs.”
Qualys will formally announce VMDR on February 25th at the Qualys Security Conference which will be held at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco. Anyone interested in participating is asked to register because available places are limited.
