Optimizing Risk Discovery and Remediation with Qualys Gateway Service (QGS)
Unpatched vulnerabilities remain one of the largest drivers of cyber risk, accounting for nearly 60% of cyber compromises. Modern security programs are there...
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The Rise of Managed Risk Operations: How the New Qualys mROC Portal Helps Partners Scale the Risk Operations Center
Key Takeaways For years, vulnerability management meant scanning, prioritizing by CVSS score, and handing a spreadsheet to IT. Attack surfaces now span cloud...
Meet Agent Val: Closing the Validation Gap in Exposure Management at Machine Speed with Agentic AI
Executive Summary The primary challenge in vulnerability management is proving what is actually exploitable. Many vulnerabilities are not exploited, but stil...
MCP Servers Are the New Shadow IT for AI
Key Takeaways MCP servers are becoming the default wiring between AI agents and enterprise applications — but most organizations have zero visibility into wh...
New Ubuntu Snap Bug Opens Door to Delayed Root Compromise
A newly disclosed flaw in Ubuntu’s Snap ecosystem is raising fresh concerns about local privilege escalation risks in default Linux environments. Researchers...
‘CrackArmor’ Exposes Nine Vulnerabilities in Linux AppArmor
The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has identified nine vulnerabilities in AppArmor, a Linux Security Module. The vulnerability has been present since 2017...
CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root
The Qualys Threat Research Unit has identified a Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop version 24....
Countering Current Geopolitical Cyber Threats With Qualys
Summary In response to the latest public sector threat intelligence on Iranian-linked threat activity, Qualys has released new intelligence capabilities with...