The solution combines proactive malware protection with cloud-based real-time detection and response, ensuring complete endpoint defense against the most advanced threats such as ransomware
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of highly innovative cloud-based IT security and compliance solutions, announced an enhancement to its endpoint protection solution, adding the ability to detect and neutralize the most advanced threats in real time. This expands the consolidation features already present in Qualys Cloud Agent such as inventory, vulnerability management, patching, and endpoint detection and response (EDR).
Traditional EDR/EPP solutions focus only on malicious activity, while risk mitigation solutions focus on finding and eliminating vulnerabilities. This approach does not offer a complete picture of the cyber environment, not showing the attack surfaces and weaknesses that cybercriminals can exploit.
As a result, it does not natively remediate the root cause of most cyberattacks: unresolved vulnerabilities.
Qualys eliminates these problems by combining risk mitigation, threat detection and neutralization activities in a single solution.
"Cyber attacks are becoming more numerous and sophisticated every year. Security managers need to be able to protect environments from known malware proactively, allowing them to quickly detect and react to even unknown threats," he said Michael Suby, Vice President of Research di IDC. "Qualys EDR Multi-Vector with Endpoint Protection combines multiple information vectors to show a complete and up-to-date picture of the entire attack chain, proactively blocking threats. With this powerful and seamlessly integrated tool, security managers can build a holistic prevention, protection, detection and response strategy."
Qualys EDR Multi-Vector with Anti-Malware Protection combines all the technologies needed to block attacks, threats and breaches.
With real-time detection and response capabilities, it removes malicious files and processes, leverages threat intelligence to identify advanced threats, and classifies endpoint activity based on MITER ATT&CK framework tactics and techniques.
"With Qualys EDR Multi-Vector we have consolidated our strategy, so much so that we now use a single agent on the Qualys Cloud Platform. We have the level of visibility and total control we need to monitor and analyze incidents that occur on even the most remote endpoints," he said Calvin Szeto, Vice President of Cybersecurity presso Universal Electronics. "The availability of rich contextual data, ease of deployment and a unified user interface not only facilitate incident response and threat hunting, but also improve the productivity of our IT and security teams. Our organization can now resolve incidents by quarantining threats, addressing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations with a single solution."
Qualys EDR Multi-Vector has added anti-malware protection for:
- Automatically quarantine malware: Actively scans for malware by scanning all system files, including incoming files, and automatically quarantines infected files.
- Detect advanced threats: monitors active applications and processes to detect anomalous behavior and protect against new and unknown malware variants.
- Prevent memory exploits- Monitor system processes to prevent memory exploits used by zero-day threats and fileless attacks.
- Block malicious traffic: Analyzes incoming email messages and web traffic in real time to prevent brute-force attacks, network exploits, and password theft.
- Prevent phishing: Automatically blocks web links linked to phishing activities, keeping users and networks safe.
“Qualys EDR Multi-Vector leverages the power of the Qualys Cloud Platform and Qualys Cloud Agent to correlate billions of global events with threat intelligence, analytics and machine learning results to deliver 360-degree visibility, protection and response into cyberattacks targeting any hybrid environment,” he said Sumedh Thakar, President and CEO of Qualys. “Now that the Qualys Cloud Agent has been empowered to block threats in real time, companies can eliminate the myriad of agents from their endpoints leaving just one, thereby dramatically reducing both the complexity of the solution and its cost.”
Availability
Qualys EDR Multi-Vector with Endpoint Protection is available in beta for Windows endpoints and will be available globally in late May. To request a free version, visit www.qualys.com/edr-epp. For more information, join our webinar on May 26 to find out how anti-malware protection works.
