Executive Summary A critical certificate authority incident disclosed on October 17, 2026, impacts eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates. A flaw in the key generation process could allow attackers to recover private keys and issue fraudulent TLS or code-signing certificates. The affected intermediates have been revoked and blocked by major platform vendors, including Chrome, Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft. The issue is tracked as CVE-2026-111943 and CVE-2026-111944. The eMudhra Certificate…
TruConfidence: The AI-Powered Remediation Intelligence & Orchestration engine powering TruRisk Eliminate 2.0 delivers autonomous remediation at scale with proof at every step. Executive Summary Vulnerabilities are now discovered faster than enterprises can remediate them. Patch automation has been around for years, but vulnerability backlogs are still growing. Automation isn’t the bottleneck. Confidence is: without evidence of how a change will behave, Security and IT teams hold back, and the…
Key Takeaways Qualys Runtime Vulnerability Reachability for Containers brings runtime evidence directly into vulnerability prioritization. Package presence in a container image does not mean the vulnerable software is actually part of the workload’s live execution. Runtime reachability answers whether the vulnerable software is relevant to a running workload, a different question from whether the vulnerability is theoretically exploitable. Qualys retains runtime evidence over an observation…
We compare the top FedRAMP-compliant security tools in 2026: Aikido for Government, Checkmarx One for Government, Qualys, Rapid7 InsightGovCloud, Snyk for Government, Tenable, Wiz for Government Category: DevSec Tools & Comparisons
Key Takeaways Qualys TotalAppSec is now FedRAMP High Authorized on the Qualys Government Platform (FedRAMP Certified Class D, package FR2231052341). Federal AI use cases more than doubled in a year (3,611 use cases across 56 agencies), and most AI interactions are delivered through APIs; expanding an estate traditional IP-based inventory was never designed to measure. Mean time to exploit is now estimated at minus seven days. Agencies cannot out-patch an adversary who starts before disclosure.…
The following is a guest blog by ITSPmagazine, based on their interview of Qualys President & CEO Sumedh Thakar at Black Hat USA 2026. Sumedh Thakar has watched the same clock compress for 23 years. He joined Qualys as an early software engineer on the scanner, when organizations scanned once every 90 days and gave themselves another 90 days to fix what turned up. At Black Hat USA 2026 in August, the now President and CEO of Qualys measured the current expectation in different units. Ninety…
Executive Summary Remediation deadlines slip for reasons outside your control: a patch does not exist yet, a patch is delayed, or a remediation attempt fails. The outcome is the same either way: the host stays unpatched and stays on the network. TruRisk Eliminate closes that window by isolating the host automatically the moment your deadline passes, executed natively through the Qualys Cloud Agent with no EDR integration required. This post covers the trigger criteria, the QQL query behind a…
Executive Summary Exposure management platforms are increasingly evaluated based on post-detection actions rather than detection itself. This piece sets out four questions to ask when evaluating one: whether it narrows vulnerabilities to the exploitable using environment context rather than severity scores; whether it validates exploitability continuously rather than just discovering assets; whether it remediates beyond patching, including patchless mitigation; and whether it lets security and…
Key Takeaways Since March 31, 2025, all 51 former “best practice” requirements in PCI DSS 4.0 have been fully scored. Every 2026 assessment covers them. A large share of the new weight sits in the PCI DSS 4.0.1 application requirements, concentrated in Requirements 6 and 11: inventory of custom applications and APIs, continuous protection of public-facing apps, payment page script management, authenticated scanning, and risk-based prioritization. 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 now require a complete…
Hidden API Estate And AI-speed Recon Are Reshaping Modern Application Risk Key Takeaways Unknown APIs create unattributed exposure, and such exposure rarely gets tested. Attackers build their own inventory through live reconnaissance; they do not wait for your spreadsheet. API discovery must pull from gateways, cloud, specs, traffic paths, scanners, and external exposure signals. OWASP API Top 10 includes improper inventory management because endpoint sprawl is now a core API risk. Qualys…
Key Takeaways Cloud environments change continuously, while security still relies on periodic scans, leaving gaps where risks go undetected. That gap becomes exposure. Qualys Real-Time CSPM monitors cloud changes as they happen, while still supporting periodic scans for environments that require them. It evaluates each finding in context by correlating posture data with vulnerabilities, asset criticality, and exploitability. Cloud risk is not handled in isolation; it is unified with…
Key Takeaways Human-speed compliance is dead. Attackers utilizing modern, autonomous AI tools can chain enterprise misconfigurations and weaponize vulnerabilities in under 25 minutes, rendering manual, periodic audit cycles completely obsolete. The “Configuration Gap” is your biggest blind spot. Organizations take an average of 14 months to remediate basic identity, access control, and logging flaws, leaving a massive, open window of exposure for automated exploitation. Hyper-prioritization is…
Powered by TruConfirm — Exploit Validation That Now Runs on the Network and the Host Executive Summary Qualys TruConfirm now validates exploitability across the entire attack surface, not just the network. Cloud Agent-Based TruConfirm brings the same proof-based validation model to the endpoint, closing the gap on local, kernel, browser, and post-authentication CVEs that network scanning alone could never reach. AI-assisted vulnerability research has compressed the time between disclosure and…
Executive Summary Frontier AI has turned CVE weaponization timelines to hours, making scan-bound detection a growing compliance and breach-risk challenge. Agent Insta powers InstaScan to deliver scanless detection by transforming existing inventory, telemetry, and threat intelligence into validated exposure findings within minutes of disclosure. Operating 24/7, InstaScan enables AI-speed detection with 90%+ coverage across technologies representing 60–70% of enterprise vulnerability volume.…
Key Takeaways AI adoption has outpaced enterprise controls, with AI and LLM workloads appearing faster than security teams can inventory or approve them. AI governance has become an evidence problem. Policies, questionnaires, and risk registers cannot prove that AI systems are safe. Traditional security tools see only fragments of AI risk. They miss model behavior, cannot produce technical evidence, and do not discover or assess the full AI estate. TotalAI connects four components of AI…