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IN THE DIGITAL AGE Qualys is a leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions and is a key exhibitor at this year’s GISEC being held alongside GITEX. Giuseppe Brizio, CISO EMEA, Qualys discusses the solutions they would be showcasing and also details some of the key trends in security
Please elaborate on the focus for Qualys at GISEC in terms of the showcase and new products announcements? We have released a couple of game-changing innovations over the last few months and will use GISEC 2020 as a platform to showcase these to our Middle East customers and partners. Showcased at our stand will be Qualys VMDR® — Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response. VMDR provides an allin-one, cloud-based app that automates the entire vulnerability management cycle, significantly accelerating the ability for companies to respond to threats, and prevent breaches while drastically reducing licensing and operating cost. We will also show Qualys Multi-Vector EDR — taking a new multi-vector approach to Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Qualys now brings the unifying power of its highly scalable cloud platform to EDR. As part of our participation at the event, we will also have two speaking sessions. The first will be on December 06 between 11:00am and 11:20am and focus on how enterprises get breached. The second, on December 08 between 1:40pm and 2:00pm will discuss the MITRE ATT&CK framework for threat hunting. Finally, we will be making a key announcement during the event. This will be particularly significant for businesses and government entities in the UAE, so we encourage visitors to stop by our stand to find out more.B20.
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How do you think the concept of security is getting redefined more in the cloud era? With SASE gaining ground, discuss how this approach is addressed as part of your offerings? In the Digital and Cloud Era, Enterprise IT environments are made of several different components such as multi-cloud, on prem, endpoints, containers and more. The Enterprise IT environments keep constantly evolving and expanding at unprecedented pace, becoming increasingly hybrid and more and more difficult to secure in a hyper connected world. The pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation initiatives, by pushing the migration to the cloud even further, in order to support the shift to remote and mobile working. The drastic changes brought by the cloud, have had an impact on how organizations provide seamless security across the hybrid IT environments. To serve the purpose of constantly reducing the time to remediate, the next generation security architecture needs to provide Visibility, Prevention, Detection and Response capabilities, all built-in and natively integrated in a cloud-based platform. What is required in today’s increasingly cloud-based world, is a security Open Cloud Platform able to (a) consolidate point solutions (b) collect all the telemetry in one place to better analyze and correlate — in real time — massive amounts of data (c) build effective intelligence, eliminating false positives/negatives and enabling automation and (d) communicate with other platforms.
