Name: Introducing Qualys Policy Audit – Automate Audit-Readiness for Continuous Compliance
Start: 2025-05-08T18:00:00Z
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Please join the Qualys research and product teams for the “This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches” webinar on December 11, 2025.

We will discuss this month's high-impact vulnerabilities, including those that are part of November 2025 Patch Tuesday. We will walk you through the steps to address the key vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR and Patch Management.

We will cover:

• The significant vulnerabilities published this month:
• Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2025 
• Other Significant Vulnerabilities

An action plan to quickly identify and remediate vulnerabilities:

• Learn how to use Qualys Patch Management to remediate vulnerabilities.

Patch Tuesday Webinar December 2025: This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches

Please join the Qualys research and product teams for the “This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches” webinar on November 13, 2025.

We will discuss this month's high-impact vulnerabilities, including those that are part of October 2025 Patch Tuesday. We will walk you through the steps to address the key vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR and Patch Management.

We will cover:

• The significant vulnerabilities published this month:
• Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2025 
• Other Significant Vulnerabilities

An action plan to quickly identify and remediate vulnerabilities:

• Learn how to use Qualys Patch Management to remediate vulnerabilities.

Patch Tuesday Webinar November 2025: This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches

Please join the Qualys research and product teams for the “This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches” webinar on October 16, 2025.

We will discuss this month's high-impact vulnerabilities, including those that are part of September 2025 Patch Tuesday. We will walk you through the steps to address the key vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR and Patch Management.

We will cover:

• The significant vulnerabilities published this month:
• Microsoft Patch Tuesday, September 2025 
• Other Significant Vulnerabilities

An action plan to quickly identify and remediate vulnerabilities:

• Learn how to use Qualys Patch Management to remediate vulnerabilities.

Patch Tuesday Webinar October 2025: This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches

Please join the Qualys research and product teams for the “This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches” webinar on September 11, 2025.

We will discuss this month's high-impact vulnerabilities, including those that are part of August 2025 Patch Tuesday. We will walk you through the steps to address the key vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR and Patch Management.

We will cover:

• The significant vulnerabilities published this month:
• Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2025 
• Other Significant Vulnerabilities

An action plan to quickly identify and remediate vulnerabilities:

• Learn how to use Qualys Patch Management to remediate vulnerabilities.

Patch Tuesday Webinar September 2025: This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches

Please join the Qualys research and product teams for the “This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches” webinar on August 14, 2025.

We will discuss this month's high-impact vulnerabilities, including those that are part of July 2025 Patch Tuesday. We will walk you through the steps to address the key vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR and Patch Management.

We will cover:

• The significant vulnerabilities published this month:
• Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2025 
• Other Significant Vulnerabilities

An action plan to quickly identify and remediate vulnerabilities:

• Learn how to use Qualys Patch Management to remediate vulnerabilities.

Patch Tuesday Webinar August 2025: This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches

Please join the Qualys research and product teams for the “This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches” webinar on July 10, 2025.

We will discuss this month's high-impact vulnerabilities, including those that are part of June 2025 Patch Tuesday. We will walk you through the steps to address the key vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR and Patch Management.

We will cover:

• The significant vulnerabilities published this month:
• Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2025 
• Other Significant Vulnerabilities

An action plan to quickly identify and remediate vulnerabilities:

• Learn how to use Qualys Patch Management to remediate vulnerabilities.

Patch Tuesday Webinar July 2025: This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches

Please join the Qualys research and product teams for the “This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches” webinar on June 12, 2025.

We will discuss this month's high-impact vulnerabilities, including those that are part of May 2025 Patch Tuesday. We will walk you through the steps to address the key vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR and Patch Management.

We will cover:

• The significant vulnerabilities published this month:
• Microsoft Patch Tuesday, May 2025 
• Other Significant Vulnerabilities

An action plan to quickly identify and remediate vulnerabilities:

• Learn how to use Qualys Patch Management to remediate vulnerabilities.

Patch Tuesday Webinar June 2025: This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches

Identifying risk is only the first step—taking decisive action is what truly makes an impact. Join us on May 20, 2025, at 11AM PST | 2PM EST for Steps To TruRisk: Step 5 - Eliminate the Risk | Taking Decisive Action, where we’ll explore how to turn risk assessments into meaningful and measurable cybersecurity improvements.

Effective risk management requires not just prioritization, but clear communication and strategic execution. This session will provide a step-by-step approach to:
<ul><li>Prioritizing remediation using Qualys TruRisk, whether through predefined scoring or custom strategies</li><li>Shifting to a patch-first approach to streamline remediation efforts</li><li>Leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK framework to refine risk-based prioritization</li><li>Tracking progress using the new Steps To TruRisk dashboard, which provides real-time risk trends, CVSS vs. QDS comparisons, and insights into CISA KEV vulnerabilities</li></ul>

With Qualys TruRisk, security teams can align cybersecurity efforts with business goals, ensuring that remediation efforts focus on the vulnerabilities that pose the greatest threat. Whether through automated tracking, real-time recalculations, or tailored prioritization models, this session will equip you with the tools to drive efficient, data-driven risk reduction.

Join us live for the final episode of the series and take the next step in eliminating risk with confidence.

Steps To TruRisk: Step 5 - Eliminate the Risk | Taking Decisive Action

Please join the Qualys research and product teams for the “This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches” webinar on May 15, 2025.

We will discuss this month's high-impact vulnerabilities, including those that are part of April 2025 Patch Tuesday. We will walk you through the steps to address the key vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR and Patch Management.

We will cover:

• The significant vulnerabilities published this month:
• Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2025 
• Other Significant Vulnerabilities

An action plan to quickly identify and remediate vulnerabilities:

• Learn how to use Qualys Patch Management to remediate vulnerabilities.

Patch Tuesday Webinar May 2025: This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches

Communicating cybersecurity risk effectively is just as important as identifying it. Join us on May 6, 2025, at 11AM PST | 2PM EST for Steps To TruRisk: Step 4 - Communicate Risk | Aligning Stakeholders, where we’ll explore how to bridge the gap between technical findings and business priorities to drive informed decision-making.

A strong risk management strategy requires clear, persuasive communication across stakeholders—from security teams to executives. This session will cover:
<ul><li>Strategies to present risk assessments in a way that resonates with both technical and business audiences</li><li>Methods to validate and adjust risk assessments as new threats emerge</li><li>Frameworks such as NIST SP 800-37, ISO 31000, COSO, and COBIT to guide risk communication and decision-making</li></ul>

We’ll also introduce Qualys TruRisk, included with VMDR, which enables organizations to shift from traditional vulnerability tracking to a risk-based approach. By applying the Risk = Likelihood x Impact formula, teams can:
<ul><li>Use Qualys Detection Score (QDS) to measure threat likelihood</li><li>Assign Asset Criticality Scores (ACS) to reflect business impact</li><li>Leverage risk scores to prioritize actions, measure progress, and refine strategies over time</li></ul>

With just a few simple steps—such as tagging assets and assigning ACS scores—you can transform the way your organization communicates and manages risk.

Join us live to learn how to align stakeholders, gain executive buy-in, and ensure security efforts focus on what truly matters.

Steps To TruRisk: Step 4 - Communicate Risk | Aligning Stakeholders

Did you know that 71% of organizations say their cyber risk levels are either increasing or holding steady? Despite growing investments in security, many organizations struggle to effectively reduce their risk exposure. The 2025 State of Cyber Risk Assessment Report, conducted by Dark Reading and Qualys, highlights the state of cyber risk maturity today—and the gaps that remain. While 49% of organizations now have formal cyber risk programs, nearly half of these programs are under two years old, signaling that many businesses are still in the early stages of their risk management journey.

Join industry experts Richard Seiersen, Chief Risk Technology Officer, and Mayuresh Ektare, VP of Product Management at Qualys, as they analyze key findings from the report and discuss how security leaders can shift from reactive assessments to proactive, automated risk management. This session will explore the role of asset discovery, business context, automation, and real-time insights in achieving true cyber risk maturity.

What You’ll Learn:
<ul><li>Why cyber risk management programs are gaining traction—but still have room to grow</li><li>How organizations can move beyond periodic asset discovery to continuous, real-time visibility</li><li>The importance of business context in risk prioritization—and why vulnerability severity alone isn’t enough</li><li>The biggest barriers to cyber risk maturity, including reliance on manual risk tracking and inconsistent reporting</li><li>Practical steps to evolve your risk management strategy and drive better security outcomes</li></ul>
Speakers:
<ul><li>Richard Seiersen – Chief Risk Technology Officer, Cybersecurity Expert, and Author</li><li>Mayuresh Ektare – Senior Vice President, Product Management, Qualys</li></ul>
Date & Time:
<ul><li>4/24/25</li><li>11 am PST</li></ul>

2025 State of Cyber Risk: Insights, Challenges & the Path Forward

Reducing cybersecurity risk starts with understanding the real-world impact of vulnerabilities on business operations. Join Colton Pepper (Product Marketing Manager) and Anthony Williams (VMDR Subject Matter Expert)—your returning co-hosts—for Steps To TruRisk: Step 3 – Get Started | Assessing Business Consequences, airing live on April 22, 2025, at 11AM PST | 2PM EST. They'll be joined by Lori Renaldi (Security Solutions Architect), who’ll bring real-world insight into how security teams are aligning risk with business priorities.

Many organizations struggle to prioritize remediation effectively because they overlook the business value of assets. This session will provide a structured approach to assessing risk by:
<ul>
<li>Evaluating the criticality of assets using Business Impact Analysis (BIA)</li><li>Assigning Asset Criticality Scores (ACS) based on Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA)</li><li>Connecting business priorities with technical risks to drive meaningful remediation efforts</li></ul>

By integrating ACS with the Qualys Detection Score (QDS), organizations can apply the Risk = Likelihood x Impact formula to align security efforts with business objectives. Starting with Crown Jewel assets—those most essential to operations—this method ensures vulnerabilities with the highest potential consequences receive immediate attention.

Join us live to learn how to transform risk assessments into actionable, business-driven security decisions.

Steps To TruRisk: Step 3 - Get Started | Assessing Business Consequences

Please join the Qualys research and product teams for the “This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches” webinar on April 10, 2025.

We will discuss this month's high-impact vulnerabilities, including those that are part of March 2025 Patch Tuesday. We will walk you through the steps to address the key vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR and Patch Management.

We will cover:

• The significant vulnerabilities published this month:
• Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2025 
• Other Significant Vulnerabilities

An action plan to quickly identify and remediate vulnerabilities:

• Learn how to use Qualys Patch Management to remediate vulnerabilities.

Patch Tuesday Webinar April 2025: This Month in Vulnerabilities and Patches

Understanding your environment is essential, but accurately measuring real-world threats is transformative. Join Colton Pepper, Product Marketing Manager, and Anthony Williams, VMDR Subject Matter Expert, along with special guests Russ Sanderlin, Director of the VMDR SME Team, and Chinmay Inamdar, Lead Technical Trainer, on April 8, 2025, at 11AM PT | 2PM ET for Steps To TruRisk: Step 2 - Take Inventory | Measuring Threats Accurately.

Many organizations rely solely on CVSS scores for prioritization, but these scores often fail to reflect the true likelihood of exploitation. A medium-severity CVSS vulnerability could pose a critical risk if it’s linked to ransomware or listed in CISA’s Known Exploitable Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

This session introduces the Qualys Detection Score (QDS), a more comprehensive metric that enhances visibility into:
<ul><li>Technical severity, such as CVSS scores</li><li>Temporal details, including exploit code maturity and threat intelligence</li><li>Mitigation details, such as compensating controls</li></ul>

With QDS, security teams can move beyond guesswork, streamline decision-making, and focus on high-confidence, high-impact threats. Colton, Anthony, Russ, and Chinmay will also discuss additional tools like MITRE ATT&CK, EPSS, and CISA KEV to help teams strengthen their risk assessments.

Join us live to learn how QDS eliminates fragmented workflows and helps prioritize what truly matters in today’s evolving threat landscape.

Steps To TruRisk: Step 2 - Take Inventory | Measuring Threats Accurately

Are you prioritizing the right vulnerabilities, or just checking boxes?

Join Colton Pepper, Product Marketing Manager, Anthony Williams, Subject Matter Expert, VMDR, and Russ Sanderlin, Director, SME, VMDR on March 25, 2025, at 11AM PT | 2PM ET for Steps To TruRisk: Step 1 - Mind the Gap | Shifting to Priority-Driven Strategies, the first episode in a five-part series designed to help organizations move from vulnerability management to true risk reduction.

Cybersecurity isn’t just about patching everything—it’s about reducing risk where it matters most. In this session, Colton and Anthony will break down how to align technical remediation efforts with real business priorities.

Using the time-tested formula Risk = Likelihood x Impact, you’ll learn how to:
<ul><li>Define your organization’s risk tolerance and what it means in practical terms</li><li>Assess the true value of your assets and their role in business operations</li><li>Measure the real-world impact of potential compromises to focus on what matters most</li></ul>
To complement this session, check out our <a href="https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2025/03/10/steps-to-trurisk-1-shift-to-priority-driven-strategies?utm_source=brighttalk&utm_medium=resource&leadsource=344576687">accompanying blog post</a> for deeper insights into risk prioritization strategies.

Join us live as we explore how a priority-driven approach transforms vulnerability management from a never-ending chase into a strategic risk-reduction engine. Don’t miss this chance to shift your security strategy in the right direction.

Register now to secure your spot.

Steps To TruRisk: Step 1 - Mind the Gap | Shifting to Priority-Driven Strategies

According to Enterprise Strategy Group, 93% of organizations use at least three tools to inventory their cyber assets. That means three different sources to manage, three different UIs—and most importantly, three different interpretations of cyber risk.

In this webinar, join Pablo Quiroga (Sr Director of Product Management) at Qualys for a review of the threat landscape and the market challenges driving this disjointed approach, and a roadmap to a simpler program, including:
<ul>
<li>Consolidating API-based CAASM tools, EASM scanners, and CMDB inventories to a single view of cyber risk</li><li>Multiplying risk factors that must be accounted for within a unified inventory</li><li>How to leverage a unified inventory to drive risk-based vulnerability management and streamlined remediation</li></ul>

Join us to take the first step in consolidating your attack surface coverage.

How Many Tools Should it Take to Secure Your Entire Attack Surface

Scaling cloud-native applications demands more than just ticketing—it requires risk-driven vulnerability management. Traditional tools struggle with container ephemerality, generating excessive noise without prioritization, leading to inefficiencies and delayed remediation.

Join Qualys and ServiceNow to see how the Qualys TotalCloud Kubernetes & Container Security (KCS) integration with ServiceNow Container Vulnerability Response (CVR) streamlines risk-based remediation with:

<ul><li>TruRisk™-Powered Prioritization – Focus on what matters most with Qualys TruRisk scoring based on real-world threats and business impact.</li><li>Noise-Free, Actionable Insights – Reduce ticket overload by eliminating unnecessary alerts, ensuring security teams act on critical risks.</li><li>Remediation Ready – Qualys tickets are enriched with full developer context, so teams get everything they need to take action immediately—without back-and-forth.</li><li>Continuous Automation – From accurate detection to auto-prioritized ticketing and streamlined remediation, Qualys and ServiceNow eliminate friction and accelerate security.</li></ul>
See how leading enterprises are transforming container vulnerability management with Qualys TotalCloud and ServiceNow CVR.

Speakers:
<li>Andy Ojha: Principal Outbound Product Manager Security Operations, ServiceNow</li>
<li>Abhinav Mishra: Director of Product Management – Qualys</li>
Date: March 19th

Register now to take control of container security with a smarter, risk-based approach!

Proactive Container Security: Risk-Driven Remediation with Qualys & ServiceNow CVR

Generative AI tools are rapidly transforming industries, yet the security risks of deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) remain widely underexplored.

In this live webinar, join Rijul Nirwal, Product Manager for Qualys TotalAI, and Colton Pepper at Qualys, as they reveal findings from our recent security assessment of DeepSeek-R1 using Qualys TotalAI. We’ll showcase how adversarial attacks, prompt vulnerabilities, and misalignment issues can affect not just DeepSeek, but any LLM platform.

By balancing both technical and strategic perspectives, we’ll help cybersecurity professionals, AI/ML developers, and C-level leaders understand the real-world implications of these vulnerabilities and why they matter for business.

Key takeaways include:
<ul>
<li>Adversarial Threats: See how common jailbreak and prompt injection attacks can expose LLM-based solutions to misuse.</li><li>Vulnerability Highlights: Understand the categories of misalignment issues, data privacy pitfalls, and potential operational risks.</li><li>Governance and Oversight: Learn why strong AI oversight and compliance considerations are critical in enterprise settings.</li></ul>
Stick around for a live Q&A session at the end, where Colton and Rijul will answer your questions in real time. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain critical insights into the evolving security landscape of LLMs—then dive deeper into our comprehensive analysis by accessing the full white paper.

Uncovering DeepSeek: Key Findings from the Qualys TotalAI Security Analysis

Struggling with compliance audits?

Manual efforts, shifting mandates, and last-minute scrambles make audits costly and stressful. Compliance is shifting from periodic checks to continuous audit-readiness—traditional approaches can’t keep up. 

Join us to explore:

<li>The shift from annual audits to continuous compliance </li><li>Challenges of maintaining audit-readiness without automation </li><li>Why manual compliance leads to inefficiencies and rising costs </li><li>How automation eliminates audit stress and improves accuracy </li>

Introducing Qualys Policy Audit: Compliance, Reimagined

We’re unveiling Qualys Policy Audit (PA), a solution that automates end-to-end audit readiness. Learn how Qualys PA helps you:
<li>Achieve Continuous Audit-Readiness – Automate evidence collection across 450+ technologies </li><li>Ensure Audit Success with TruRisk™ Insights – Prioritize compliance gaps by security impact </li><li>Generate Audit-Ready Reports – Collect evidence, analyze gaps, and create reports </li><li>Accelerate Remediation – Resolve compliance issues faster with automation </li><li>Streamline Compliance – Bridge security and IT with integrated workflows </li>

Who Should Attend?

Security, compliance, audit, and IT professionals looking to enhance audit-readiness, reduce costs, and simplify compliance. Whether you're a Qualys SCA customer, compliance leader, or CISO, you'll gain insights.

Speakers:
Anu Kapil – Sr. Director, Product Management, Qualys 
Jason White – Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Qualys 

Don’t let shifting mandates overwhelm your team. Join us to see how automation simplifies compliance and guarantees audit success!

Introducing Qualys Policy Audit – Automate Audit-Readiness for Continuous Compliance

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