LAS VEGAS, Aug. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Hat
USA 2018, Booth #204 -- Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of
cloud-based security and compliance solutions, today announced that IBM X-Force Red will leverage the Qualys Cloud Platform as
part of its X-Force Red Vulnerability Management Services (VMS).
As part of an expanded relationship, X-Force Red will deploy the Qualys Cloud Agent and Qualys Cloud Apps into client
environments across the globe, providing a programmatic vulnerability management approach that leverages the breadth of Qualys'
continuous visibility and depth of the X-Force Red team's services to identify, prioritize and remediate clients' most critical
vulnerabilities.
The Qualys Cloud Platform will also be leveraged by X-Force Red VMS to help extend security and compliance visibility into
IoT-connected cars, network testing and application testing. X-Force Red will offer the Qualys Cloud Platform to its network of
Global 2000 strategic outsourcing customers.
"This partnership provides organizations a cost-effective, automated vulnerability identification, prioritization, and
remediation program," said Charles Henderson, Global Head of X-Force Red. "And, since we offer
X-Force Red VMS in conjunction with our X-Force Red penetration testing services, organizations get the full scope of top level
offensive security – from automated scanning to manual testing – to find every not-yet-known vulnerability."
"IBM X-Force Red helps the largest enterprises in the world securely create and implement DevSecOps practices to accelerate
digital transformations," said Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO, Qualys, Inc. "This expanded
relationship equips IBM X-Force Red with an unprecedented level of global visibility that allows them to proactively protect
organizations against cyber-attacks."
2-Second Global Visibility with Qualys Cloud Agents
Qualys Cloud Agents enable instant global visibility of IT assets — including mobile users, ephemeral cloud instances
and virtual devices — with up-to-date asset configuration data for security and compliance. A low-footprint agent installed on
endpoints, Cloud Agents bring the high-performance functionality of all Qualys Cloud Platform services to all IT assets in the
global enterprise. Qualys Cloud Agent architecture greatly simplifies asset discovery and tracking as well as security and
compliance monitoring in highly dynamic cloud environments like IBM Cloud, Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure.
About Qualys Cloud Platform
As a revolutionary unified architecture powering more than 15 Qualys security and compliance Cloud Apps, the Qualys Cloud
Platform offers customers a streamlined solution for avoiding the cost and complexities of managing multiple security vendors. By
automatically gathering and analyzing security and compliance data from IT assets anywhere in one single-pane view, the Qualys
Cloud Platform gives customers the scalability, visibility, accuracy and breadth of capabilities to fight cyber attacks and build
security into their digital transformation initiatives.
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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 10,300 customers in more than 130 countries, including a majority of each of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys
helps organizations streamline and consolidate their security and compliance solutions in a single platform and build security
into digital transformation initiatives for greater agility, better business outcomes and substantial cost savings. The Qualys
Cloud Platform and its integrated Cloud Apps deliver businesses critical security intelligence continuously, enabling them to
automate the full spectrum of auditing, compliance and protection for IT systems and web applications on premises, on endpoints
and elastic clouds. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has established strategic partnerships
with leading managed service providers and consulting organizations including Accenture, BT, Cognizant Technology Solutions,
Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HCL Technologies, DXC Technologies, IBM, Infosys, NTT, Optiv, SecureWorks, Tata Communications,
Verizon and Wipro. The company is also a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance. For more information, please visit
http://www.qualys.com.
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