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The cybersecurity industry has spent much of the last two years debating how attackers might use AI. That debate matters, but it misses a larger point: defenders now have an opportunity to change the economics of cyber risk. For me, the question is not whether AI will influence cybersecurity. It alr…

In the first article in this series, we made the case for a prevention-led operating model. This article is about what happened next: the decision to build something that did not exist, and what it took to make it real. Turning an operating model into a product sounds straightforward until you are s…

Executive Summary Knowing what’s exploitable is only half the battle. P2P patch distribution turns your endpoints into a delivery network, cutting patch propagation by up to 92%, reducing WAN bandwidth by 99%+, and helping close critical vulnerabilities before attackers can move. Available now in Qu…

Key Takeaways The Rise of Cloud-Native Command and Control (C2) Command and control (C2) infrastructure traditionally lived outside the victim environment. Malware beaconed to attacker-operated servers hosted on rented VPS infrastructure or compromised websites, and defenders focused on identifying …

Key Takeaways Software inventory used to stop at the server. Modern application delivery erased that boundary. In cloud-native environments, software now moves continuously through container images, registries, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes clusters, often reaching production faster than tradition…

The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered and published the full advisory for CVE-2026-46333, a logic flaw in the Linux kernel’s __ptrace_may_access() function that permits an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default insta…

The Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report has been published. Qualys is proud to have served as a research partner and contributor, contributing analysis of more than one billion anonymized vulnerability remediation records across four consecutive DBIR reporting cycles of CISA Known Exploit…

Qualys SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) introduces native support for the Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) compliance framework, bringing CISA’s toughest M365 security benchmarks directly into your continuous posture monitoring workflow. Key Takeaways What Is SCuBA and Why Doe…