REDWOOD CITY, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 10/14/13 --
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of cloud security and compliance solutions, today announced that QualysGuard WAS won the 2013 Information Security™ Magazine (ISM) and SearchSecurity.com™ Reader's Choice Award for Application Security. The eighth annual Readers' Choice Awards surveyed Information Security readers, asking for their votes and ratings on top security products in 19 categories, with participants asked to only vote on the products in use in their environments. The QualysGuard WAS cloud service was rated the highest in the Application Security category for helping enterprises identify and remediate issues before attackers can find and exploit them.
As businesses and individuals rely more and more on Internet communication to conduct their business and their daily lives, securing web applications is critical and a very challenging task; web applications pop up rapidly, come from many different sources and are constantly changing. Companies therefore need to continuously monitor their web applications to identify vulnerabilities and ensure their remediation.
"Web application security is now a problem of scale as web applications have proliferated along with the number of attacks targeting them. Now corporations have thousands of web applications to deal with and secure from cyber attacks," said Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO for Qualys. "We are proud to see QualysGuard WAS receive the 2013 ISM Reader's Choice Award for Application Security, and we would like to thank our customers and partners who have been instrumental in helping us build such a scalable solution. Our cloud architecture has allowed us to deliver customers an accurate, easy-to-use, cost-effective web application scanning solution, and as a result we are seeing significant momentum in its adoption."
As noted on SearchSecurity.com, the QualysGuard WAS cloud service enables the continuous discovery and cataloging of web applications in use within an organization both on-premise and in the cloud. Then QualysGuard WAS assesses each application's security status, identifies design flaws, unpatched holes and malware and spins out a comprehensive report that security and DevOps teams can use to prioritize and address remediation efforts. The product also offers a variety of APIs so that scan data can be provided to other security and compliance systems.
According to Searchsecurity.com, Qualys readers "lauded the ease with which the product can be implemented."
In addition Qualys is significantly expanding its capabilities of securing web applications with a Web Application Firewall service (WAF), now in beta, that allows organizations to firewall vulnerabilities automatically before they are remediated. Qualys is also working on delivering a Cloud Web Application Log Analysis and a Remediation/Exploit console that will be available in beta in Q1 of next year.
QualysGuard Vulnerability Management was also named the Silver winner in Vulnerability Management in The 2013 ISM Readers Choice Awards. To see the full article on the winners, visit: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/essentialguide/Security-Readers-Choice-Awards-2013.
About QualysGuard Web Application Scanning
QualysGuard Web Application Scanning, or QualysGuard WAS, uses the scalability of the QualysGuard Cloud Platform to allow customers to discover, catalog and scan a large number of web applications. QualysGuard WAS scans and analyzes custom web applications and identifies vulnerabilities that threaten underlying databases or bypass access controls. These web applications are often the main attack vectors for cyber attackers.
About QualysGuard Vulnerability Management
QualysGuard Vulnerability Management, or QualysGuard VM, is an industry leading and award-winning solution that automates network auditing and vulnerability management across an organization, including network discovery and mapping, asset management, vulnerability reporting and remediation tracking. Driven by Qualys' comprehensive KnowledgeBase of known vulnerabilities, QualysGuard VM enables cost-effective protection against vulnerabilities without substantial resource deployment.
About Information Security magazine
Information Security magazine is the enterprise security and risk managers' leading source of critical, objective information on strategic and practical security issues. Information Security's team of veteran security journalists and experts break down the security problems challenging enterprises and provide practical resolutions. Its in-depth, comprehensive reports and analyses provide security managers -- department managers to CXOs -- with the tools, knowledge and information they need to make informed decisions about how to safeguard their enterprises, comply with regulations and standards, and reduce risk. The publication's analysis of technology and products provide a guide for budgeting and purchasing decisions and trends reports, case studies and industry-leading exposes offers security managers insight into how their peers are addressing and solving key
security issues. Information Security is an indispensable guide for any security manager and executive charged with protecting information assets and reducing risk.
About SearchSecurity.com
More than one million IT security pros turn to SearchSecurity.com for the information they require to keep their corporate data and assets secure. We're the only online information resource that provides immediate access to breaking industry news, virus alerts, webcasts, white papers, security schools, a selection of highly focused security e-newsletters and more -- all at no cost. Nowhere else will you find such a highly targeted combination of resources specifically dedicated to the success of today's IT-security professional.
Headquartered in Newton, MA, SearchSecurity.com is part of the TechTarget® network (www.techtarget.com). TechTarget publishes integrated media that enable information-technology (IT) marketers to reach targeted communities of IT professionals and executives in all phases of the technology decision-making and purchase process.
About Qualys
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), is a pioneer and leading provider of cloud security and compliance solutions with over 6,000 customers in more than 100 countries, including a majority of each of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. The QualysGuard Cloud Platform and integrated suite of solutions help organizations simplify security operations and lower the cost of compliance by delivering critical security intelligence on demand and automating the full spectrum of auditing, compliance and protection for IT systems and web applications. Founded in 1999, Qualys has established strategic partnerships with leading managed service providers and
consulting organizations, including Accuvant, BT, Dell SecureWorks, Fujitsu, NTT, Symantec, Verizon, and Wipro. The company is also a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
For more information, please visit www.qualys.com.
Source: Qualys
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