VeriSign and Qualys have formed a strategic relationship whereby iDefense intelligence is integrated with scanning data from QualysGuard Vulnerability Management (VM). The company claims that the integration drives availability of two new services that combine security threat intelligence and vulnerability scanning data, which enables enterprises to protect IT assets from attacks, particularly against zero-day threats and vulnerabilities.
Zero-day threats are exploitable security vulnerabilities in software that are discovered before the software vendor identified them and begun a process for patching.
Through the first of these services, iDefense has made its iDefense Exclusives security vulnerability data available through QualysGuard VM.
Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO of Qualys, said: The addition of the deep and analytical research from iDefense as a source of vulnerability data to QualysGuard VM will ensure our clients have the most complete view of threats that pose the greatest risk to the enterprise.”
The company said that the iDefense security intelligence data is integrated with QualysGuard VM to allow customers to correlate iDefense vulnerability reports with Qualys scan data against IT assets to prioritise vulnerabilities based on severity, business criticality and relevance to the organisation. This integration capability, available on the iDefense portal, reportedly helps security teams prioritise patch deployments and remediation efforts particularly between full vulnerability scan cycles of their environments.
QualysGuard VM is a vulnerability management offering that automates the lifecycle of network auditing and vulnerability management across the enterprise, including network discovery and mapping, asset prioritisation, vulnerability assessment reporting and remediation tracking according to business risk.
