Today's fast-paced, hyper-competitive global marketplace requires organizations to open their networks to customers, suppliers, and business partners. Organizations that share information among these constituents benefit enormously by having better informed, and therefore more effective, supply chains.

This same openness, however, brings associated security risks that must be properly managed. The frequency and sophistication of network attacks is growing with the use of automated hacking tools that can inflict worldwide damage in just a few hours. Left undetected or improperly corrected, known vulnerabilities provide an open door for 99 percent of all network attacks.

Despite firewalls, anti-virus software and intrusion detection systems, IT assets continue to be accessed, crippled or even rendered inoperable by unauthorized individuals, worms, or other threats. Traditional security audits conducted manually once or twice a year are ineffective against the formidable roster of new risks. A different approach is required - a proactive approach.

Qualys® offers on demand security audit and vulnerability management solutions to organizations of all sizes. The ultimate goal is to secure invaluable business platforms and mitigate risk. QualysGuard®, the company's flagship solution, is designed to secure networks, conduct automated security audits, and ensure compliance. QualysGuard proactively and automatically identifies security vulnerabilities, correlates those threats to specific assets, and provides an end-to-end process for vulnerability remediation. Due to the increasing sophistication and shortened lifecycle of attacks, automating vulnerability assessment is critical in fighting the constant threats that define today's security climate.

Source: Qualys, as published in SC Magazine, July 2003

With its on demand technology, QualysGuard users avoid capital outlay for equipment and software, and since QualysGuard eliminates traditionally labor-intensive operations, there is no need to hire consultants or add internal human resources. Large-scale, distributed enterprise deployments can be up and running in hours. No other solution available today can match the scalability of QualysGuard.