MUMBAI, India, April 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualys
Security Conference -- Qualys, Inc . (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading
provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, today announced it now supports the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Cyber Security Guidelines to help financial institutions in India address and report on a range of technical and procedural requirements using a unified security and
compliance solution. Qualys will demonstrate these capabilities for automating RBI Compliance today at its user conference in Mumbai.
Exposure to cyber attacks and data breaches have increased significantly against India's
banks as they rapidly evolve and digitally transform. The RBI Cyber Security Guidelines assist financial institutions in
achieving a new-era preventative security baseline. Using the Qualys security and compliance platform, these financial
institutions can easily address both the technical and procedural requirements for compliance and reporting without adding the
cost or complexity of point solutions. The Qualys platform can be delivered to customers worldwide either from Qualys' public
cloud infrastructure, including from within India, or via a Qualys Private Cloud Platform (PCP).
"Significant automation capability with the right security tools is very important to gain a continuous view of banks'
compliance with RBI Cyber Security framework," said Ashutosh Jain, chief information security
officer at Axis Bank. This automation will not just minimize human error, but will also allow security teams in the banking,
financial services and insurance industry to balance and better manage future changes to the framework with ease."
"Today's digital way of life puts immense pressure on financial institutions to provide both business flexibility and an
unprecedented level of security for their customers' financial information," said Philippe
Courtot, chairman and CEO, Qualys, Inc. "The new guidelines require banks across India to
put in place a robust cyber security and resilience program to help them assess their security posture on a continuous basis,
which Qualys delivers uniquely through its highly scalable security and compliance platform that can be delivered on premise or
via the cloud."
Qualys RBI Compliance Solution
Qualys enables banking organizations to more easily meet existing and new regulations such as RBI guidelines without
the hassle of deploying, managing and integrating point security products from multiple vendors. The Qualys Cloud Platform
incorporates more than 10 applications, all of which are delivered via the cloud, on top of Qualys' infrastructure and core
services. It features several unified turnkey solutions in one platform that allows customers to efficiently comply with the RBI
Cyber Security Guidelines:
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Two-Second Visibility and Prioritization: Qualys AssetView (AV), Vulnerability Management (VM) and ThreatPROTECT (TP) work together to provide
complete visibility of a customer's assets, vulnerabilities, and related risk as required by the RBI Cyber Security
Guidelines. Since the RBI Guidelines require continuous surveillance and baselining of risks in an organization, these
modules can be supplemented with Qualys Continuous
Monitoring (CM) , which enables customers to immediately identify and proactively address
potential problems.
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Compliance: Customers can use Qualys Policy
Compliance (PC) to automate security configuration assessments and quickly determine compliance with RBI technical
security requirements, as it provides out-of-the-box reports that customers can run in minutes to document their preparedness
against RBI Guidelines. Qualys Security Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) allows customers with out-of-the-box campaign templates to derive the
posture of procedural RBI guideline elements such as vendor risk management or user awareness, and verify that these
procedural controls are enforced internally and by third-party vendors and partners.
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Web Application Security: Banks can use Qualys Web Application Scanning (WAS) to implement the
RBI guidelines for vulnerability assessment, penetration testing and red team exercises, application security life cycle,
patch/vulnerability and change management. In addition, Qualys Web Application Firewall (WAF) can be an integral
part of their multi-layered security infrastructure and help banks implement the RBI guidelines of web application security
lifecycle.
Qualys Cloud Platform in India
Qualys set up its first Secure Operations Center (SOC) in Pune this year to provide
enterprises access to cost-effective, localized cloud-based security and compliance solutions that support data sovereignty
requirements of Indian organizations. Financial institutions have a critical need to comply with regulations, and this recently
added SOC provides them with localized access to asset discovery, network security, threat protection, compliance monitoring and
web application security.
Qualys Private Cloud Platform
Organizations can also deploy Qualys via the Qualys Private Cloud Platform, also available as a 1U appliance, which
offers the same robust private cloud security and compliance services while keeping all sensitive security and compliance data
generated by Qualys locally in the customer's datacenter.
For all deployment models, Qualys offers open APIs, which allow organizations to seamlessly integrate into Cyber Security
Operation Centers that are mandated by RBI. There is no new software to deploy or infrastructure to maintain.
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About Qualys
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions with
over 9,300 customers in more than 100 countries, including a majority of each of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. The
Qualys 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 Accenture, BT, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Deutsche Telekom,
Fujitsu, HCL Technologies, HP Enterprise, IBM, Infosys, NTT, Optiv, SecureWorks, Tata Communications, Verizon and Wipro. The
company is also a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). For more information, please visit www.qualys.com.
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