Qualys has been named a finalist in seven categories for the 2015 SC Awards which recognizes outstanding leadership and achievement in information security. In addition to being named a finalist for the coveted Best Security Company of the Year, Qualys is also a finalist in the following categories: Best Customer Service, Best Vulnerability Management Solution, Best Policy Compliance Solution, Best Risk/Policy Management Solution, Best SME Security Solution, Best Enterprise Security Solution and Best Regulatory Compliance Solution.

The SC Awards is one of the information security industry’s most prominent recognition for cybersecurity professionals, products and services. The awards recognize the achievements of security professionals in the field, the innovations happening in the vendor and service provider communities, and the vigilant work of government, commercial and nonprofit entities. Winners of this year’s SC Awards U.S. will be announced at a gala dinner and award ceremony to be held in San Francisco on April 21, 2015.

Qualys is proud to announce that it was named Best Security Company earlier this week at the 2014 SC Magazine Awards. The awards acknowledge companies with superior security products that help customers tackle today’s most pressing information-technology (IT) challenges. The announcement was made on February 25, 2014 at the 17th annual SC Awards U.S. Gala in San Francisco, in conjunction with the annual RSA Conference. The criteria for the judging included: product line strength, customer base, customer service/support, research and development, and innovation.

“The SC Awards are the security industry’s most prestigious accolade, bestowed only to the most impressive companies in the security industry,” said Illena Armstrong, VP of editorial, SC Magazine. “Qualys can be very proud of this achievement and the many long hours of dedicated service that it represents.”

“We are honored to be named the Best Security Company by SC Magazine,” said Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO, Qualys. “We share this honor with our customers and partners, who throughout the years, have been our guiding force to continue improving our existing cloud-based security and compliance solutions and design new innovative ones.”

Qualys also won the award for SC Award for Best Security Company in 2011. Read the full news release.

The recent Global OWASP AppSec conference the week of November 18 – 22 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City was a great way to learn more about the latest trends in application security and exchange ideas with other application security professionals.  The conference included updates on many of the OWASP projects as well as some interesting presentations such as:

• OWASP Zed Attack Proxy – Simon Bennetts
• Hack.me: a new way to learn web application security – Armando Romeo
• The Perilous Future of Browser Security – RSnake

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Qualys today announced that it has been named a 2014 SC Awards U.S. finalist for outstanding leadership and achievement in information security in five categories. Qualys was named a finalist for Best Security Company and for Best Customer Service. QualysGuard Vulnerability Management (VM) was named a finalist in the Reader’s Trust Award for Best Vulnerability Management Solution, and Qualys’ solutions were also recognized in two Excellence Awards, including:  QualysGuard Express for Best SME Security Solution and QualysGuard Policy Compliance (PC) for Best Regulatory Compliance Solution.

“We are honored to be recognized in these five categories that highlight the strength of our company vision, our solutions, and our world-class customer service,” said Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO of Qualys. “We’d like to thank the SC Magazine judging panels along with our customers and partners for their support.”

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