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VMDR and CyberSecurity Asset

In recent years the fragmented IT infrastructure across IT, IoT, OT, cloud, mobile has
continued to expand in turn resulting in exponential rise in the attack surface of an
organization, threats are becoming more sophisticated, and vulnerabilities are getting
weaponized faster than ever before. Reducing this risk can seem like a never-ending battle.
Add to that remote-work culture is forcing the asset visibility gaps as the main factor behind a 300%
security perimeter of the conventional enterprise to increase in security incidents, according to a study
expand beyond the data center to each device within conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
its evolving and elastic infrastructure. While this
With Qualys Vulnerability Management, Detection
change has made businesses and work more agile, it
and Response (VMDR) and CyberSecurity Asset
has increased cyber risk exposure of organizations
Management (CSAM) together, customers gain world-
with legacy Vulnerability Management (VM) and
class Risk Based vulnerability management solution,
Attack Surface Management (ASM) solutions that
combined with External Attack Surface Management
are ill-equipped to navigate a fluid cyber asset attack
(EASM) delivered via a single, unified dashboard.
surface. In fact, nearly 80% of organizations identify
In addition to achieving a consolidated means of
managing and remediating vulnerabilities wherever
they may be, Qualys VMDR and CSAM with EASM
are complimented by Qualys TruRisk™, which help
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VMDR and CyberSecurity Asset Management (CSAM) with
External Attack Surface Management (EASM) Capabilities and Benefits:
External Attack Surface Management Improved Compliance
See and secure your entire enterprise from the Manage and build asset inventories required by security
vantage-point of an attacker with outside-in data standards, including CISA, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, NIST,
coverage over previously unknown, external and SOC 2.
internet-facing assets on-premises and in the cloud.
Automated Workflows
Risk-Based Prioritization Auto-remediate specific issues and even quarantine
Tag and assign criticality scores to assets and assets using Qualys Flow (QFlow) with flexible,
asset groups according to industry, compliance, or no-code rules.
operational need using TruRisk™, saving analysis
time, reducing the MTTR, and improving cyber risk Improved EOL and EOS Software
exposure and reporting. Management
Decrease the attack surface by uncovering outdated or
CMDB Integration unsupported applications, missing required software,
Accurately and continuously update CMDB to and unauthorized software.
improve the relevance of vulnerability risk
assessments by mapping business criticality data Single Cloud Agent
to assets for better cyber hygiene. Consolidate security stack. Reduce cost, complexity,
and risk of managing cloud, server, desktop, laptop, and
Security and IT Team Alignment other endpoints — with Qualys.
Achieve a single source of truth for assets and
vulnerabilities with ITSM integrations. No more
complex handoff processes, non-correlated data,
inconsistent data, or disagreements between
security and IT teams on what needs to be tackled “On average, Attack Surface Management
first for remediation.
tools will find 30% more surface area assets
Continuous Visibility than IT was aware of.”
Maintain complete visibility of assets, software, and
vulnerabilities across distributed hybrid environments.

Forrester Research
Key Use Cases for Qualys VMDR and CyberSecurity Attack Surface
Management (CSAM) with External Attack Surface Management (EASM)
USE CASE CHALLENGE SOLUTION OUTCOMES

Integrating VM and Cyber Asset Attack VMDR and CSAM with External Attack Reduced MTTR and improved asset visibility
Surface Management (CAASM) Surface Management (EASM) consolidate with the ability to measure cyber risk
Unknown internet-facing assets make up asset and vulnerability insights for a unified improvements over time with a single,
about 30% of any organization’s application view over the entire attack surface. Deployed consolidated platform. Using VMDR and
infrastructure, resulting in blind spots and with the Qualys lightweight agent or via the CSAM with EASM, you get the best in VM and
elevated cyber risk. While VM is the comprehensive Qualys sensor ecosystem, CAASM while driving a consolidation strategy
cornerstone of any security stack, CAASM you achieve improved threat detection, that improves TCO at no degradation to your
is increasingly necessary for organizations to automated remediation workflows, and risk posture.
improve security coverage and reduce their a risk-based approach to cybersecurity that
exposure to cyber risk. works across the entire enterprise.

Managing and Securing Organization Qualys VMDR and CSAM with EASM comes Continuous enumeration of unknown assets
from Shadow IT with EOL/EOS software tracking compliant and services automatically baselines asset
The hybrid enterprise conventional security with CISA guidelines to help expose baseline inventories across the entire ecosystem,
perimeter extends from the datacenter discrepancies, including VMs, containers, improving security hygiene, optimizing IT-
to remote endpoints. This has led to new and functions-as-a-service. By identifying security coordination, and reducing exposure
challenges for VM and security practitioners, deviations from established baselines, VMDR to cyber risk. Shadow-IT risk is inherently
including securing their environment for and CSAM with EASM discovers and supports and automatically mitigated as a result.
unapproved or exploited assets. Still, as remediation of untracked, new externally
much as 60% of organizations today still do facing software instances and services.
not include shadow IT in their internal
threat assessments.

Bridge the IT-Security Gap Qualys VMDR and CSAM with EASM More time spent in high-value tasks and less
Processes of vulnerability discovery, patch integrates with ITSM tools, including time spent on vulnerability analysis and
management, and remediation span several ServiceNow, for accurate and up-to-date reporting due reduced ticketing complexity,
steps of action that require multiple tools ticketing between all security and IT automated reporting and improved
and include various stakeholders from both stakeholders. With complete, structured, and coordination between security operations,
IT and security teams. As a result, security enriched CMDB bi-directional dataflows, IT operations and respective cyber risk
and IT stakeholders are challenged with users of Qualys VMDR and CSAM with EASM leaders and C-level executives.
cyber risk becoming an overarching concern can easily track and trace vulnerabilities
and shared KPI between both departments. from detection to close out.

Risk Based Vulnerability Management Qualys VMDR and CSAM with EASM Security partitioners can identify and
Assets and applications are exposed to a provides continuous and robust vulnerability manage vulnerabilities at all endpoints,
rising number of vulnerabilities and targeted assessments on all assets. Hardware, enabling zero-trust segmentation, targeted
malware that can infect various areas of software, and firmware-based vulnerabilities remediation, and compliance programs to
the network due to increased connectivity impacting all applications are covered with reduce lateral movement of cyber threats
between IoT and IT networks. 70% of the Qualys lightweight agent, numerous between industrial applications and IT and
vulnerabilities can be exploited without sensors, and the Qualys optional cloud agent, IoT network environments. With EASM,
needing special privileges. Security enabling security practitioners to formulate security coverage and policy enforcement
practitioners must identify and isolate zero-trust network access policies and are extended to external, internet-facing
vulnerabilities faster than ever before to reduce enforce them across the entire enterprise assets, all with one unified solution
the risk of lateral movement of malware. without affecting network performance.

Learn more about VMDR and CyberSecurity Attack Surface Management, the Qualys CAASM Solution. Try it for 30 days.
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