Cybersecurity Evolution: Introducing Autonomous AI on Qualys Platform; From Manual Whack-a-Mole to AI-Driven Risk Management Solutions
In a pioneering move, Qualys has introduced the Qualys AI Fabric, a system engineered to facilitate autonomous cybersecurity. This AI-powered platform aims to revolutionize how organizations oversee their cybersecurity, integrating and automating vulnerability management and threat detection.
At the core of the Qualys AI Fabric are specialized Cyber Risk Agents. Each agent is designed to prioritize threats, guide remediation strategies, and operate autonomously. For instance, Agent Sophia, a self-healing Autonomous Vulnerability Management agent, tackles the core challenge of current scan-and-report methods by building and maintaining vulnerability management for the entire IT environment.
Agent Chang, on the other hand, prioritizes control failures that offer the greatest impact on audit readiness scores. Meanwhile, Agent Sara detects Microsoft Patch Tuesday (MSPT) vulnerabilities and creates a comprehensive Risk Elimination Plan with actionable insights for the IT team.
The AI Fabric also includes Agent Nyra, which monitors adversaries and threat intelligence most relevant to an organization's unique industry and environment. In case of threats, Agent Nyra alerts teams and can initiate playbooks for patching or mitigation actions based on that intelligence.
Agentic AI, integrated into the Qualys ecosystem, continuously analyzes millions of exposure signals and combines live threat intelligence with an organization's unique business context. This analysis helps in delivering a clear distillation of the cyber risks that truly matter, enabling security professionals to focus on what's important.
Moreover, the AI Fabric automates continuous evidence collection and audit-ready reporting across all in-scope assets and environments. This feature is particularly beneficial for cloud environments, where more than 30% of cloud VMs across AWS, Azure, and GCP were found to have high or critical vulnerabilities in Qualys' latest Cloud Threat Research.
Agent Vikram, designed for cloud scanning, automatically discovers unmonitored assets and applies the right scan method for each workload without human intervention. This agent provides teams with continuous, unified visibility and control across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
The Qualys Agentic AI marketplace allows organizations to employ pre-built Cyber Risk Agents as their skilled digital workforce, tailored to address specific use cases. With the help of these agents, security teams can shift from tactical responders to strategic orchestrators, with use cases such as Agent Nova for External Risk Discovery and Hacker's-Eye Prioritization and Agent Vikram for Adaptive Cloud Risk Assessment.
By leveraging Agentic AI, organizations can achieve measurable enhancements across their security operations, including democratized data access, intelligent decision support, and boosted productivity. The prompt-driven Cyber Risk Assistant democratizes access to diverse security data by helping users navigate and evaluate their risk posture with a natural-language query.
While the exact release date and availability information for the Qualys AI Fabric are yet to be announced, it's evident that this innovative approach to cybersecurity is poised to redefine how organizations manage their security operations.
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