Earlier today I gave a presentation at RSA Conference 2014 in San Francisco about the 20 Critical Security Controls (CSC) and some ideas on how to implement them using QualysGuard. The document for the 20 CSC provides a number of suggestions for each control, called Quick Wins that point out aspects of the controls that are relatively easy to implement. One example is the detection of new machines, or how to report on machines that do not run an approved version of the operating system.

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Update: Also see details on the update to QualysGuard 7.12.

QualysGuard 7.12 will be released in production in the coming weeks and includes enhancements to QualysGuard Vulnerability Management (VM) and Policy Compliance (PC) reports, and API.

Highlights include: new Certificate (SSL) Dashboard, new VM Authentication Report, Test Control function in the Policy Editor, and API enhancements.

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The new QualysGuard Vulnerability Notification feature allows you to configure QualysGuard to send email notifications to users about new and updated vulnerabilities in the QualysGuard KnowledgeBase. An update to QualysGuard 7.11 will be released in production in the coming weeks to introduce this feature.

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QualysGuard 7.11 will be released in production in the coming weeks and includes enhancements to QualysGuard Vulnerability Management (VM) and Policy Compliance (PC) reports, and API.

Highlights include: ability to rerun a report, new “Host Scan Date” filter and “Vulnerability Fixed On” date filter for the vulnerability scorecard report, and API enhancements.

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QualysGuard 7.10 will be released in production in the coming weeks and includes enhancements to QualysGuard Cloud Platform, Vulnerability Management (VM), Policy Compliance (PC) and API.

New QualysGuard Express Lite

The new service offering QualysGuard Express Lite for SMBs is launched with this release.

QualysGuard Cloud Platform Enhancements

Redesigned Application Picker: In this release, the application picker has been redesigned with a new look & feel to clearly show to users the various applications available in their subscriptions.

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