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Qualys, Inc. is a provider of cloud security, compliance and related services for small and medium-sized businesses and large corporations based in Redwood Shores, California.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vendor Product/Service Analysis )〕 Founded in 1999,〔(Enterprise Cloud Security Firm Qualys Files For $100 Million IPO | TechCrunch )〕 Qualys was the first company to deliver vulnerability management solutions as applications through the web using a "software as a service" (SaaS) model, and as of 2013 Gartner Group for the fifth time gave Qualys a "Strong Positive" rating for these services.〔(New Forrester Wave Evaluation: Vulnerability Management Products | Forrester Blogs )〕 It has added cloud-based compliance and web application security offerings. Qualys has over 7,700 customers in more than 100 countries, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Qualys Announces Record Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2014 Financial Results )〕 The company has strategic partnerships with major managed services providers and consulting organizations including BT, Dell SecureWorks, Fujitsu, IBM, NTT, Symantec, Verizon, and Wipro.〔(Find a Partner | Qualys, Inc )〕 The company is also a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).〔(About : Cloud Security Alliance )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Qualys Introduces Cloud Continuous Monitoring )〕 ==History== Qualys was founded in 1999. The company launched QualysGuard in December 2000, making Qualys one of the first entrants in the vulnerability management market.〔(Cloud Security Vendor Qualys Ready for IPO | Sramana Mitra )〕 The QualysGuard Intranet Scanner was released in 2002 to automatically scan corporate LANs for vulnerabilities and search for an available patch. The following year, Qualys released FreeMap, a web-based tool for scanning, mapping and identifying possible security holes within networks connected to the Internet. In 2005, Qualys extended its QualysGuard product line. In 2008, Qualys introduced QualysGuard Policy Compliance, which extended the platform’s global scanning capabilities to collect IT compliance data across the organization and map this information into policies to document compliance for auditing purposes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Qualys Adds Security and Regulatory Policy Compliance to SaaS Offering )〕 Qualys also released a service for web application scanning named QualysGuard Web Application Scanning (WAS). In 2010, at the RSA Conference USA, Qualys announced QualysGuard Malware Detection Service, a new service designed to scan and identify malware on web sites.〔(Psst, Mister, Scan Your Site for Malware – For Free? | Maureen O'Gara )〕 It also announced the Qualys SECURE Seal, which allows websites to show visitors that it has passed security scans.〔(Qualys to offer free domain scanning and security assurance seals )〕 In July 2010, Qualys announced Qualys BrowserCheck, a service for checking web browsers and plug-ins for security vulnerabilities.〔(Infosecurity - Free web browser and plug-in security service launched )〕 At RSA Conference 2011, Qualys launched a new open source web application firewall project, IronBee,〔(IronBee Open Source WAF Project Launches - eSecurity Planet )〕 led by Ivan Ristic, the creator of ModSecurity and a director of engineering at Qualys. At the RSA Conference in 2012, Qualys introduced updates to the QualysGuard Cloud Platform, which extended its capabilities to help customers improve the security of their IT systems and applications, further automate their compliance initiatives for IT-GRC, and provide online protection against cyber-attacks while reducing operational costs and increasing the efficiency of their security programs.〔(RSA 2012: Qualys Updates Cloud Platform, Launches Web Application Firewall Service | Security Blog )〕 Qualys went public on NASDAQ with the symbol QLYS on September 28, 2012, raising net proceeds of $87.5 million. At the 2014 RSA Conference, Qualys announced general availability of its QualyGuard Web Application Firewall (WAF), which provides protection for websites running on Amazon EC2 and on-premises, as well as a new Continuous Monitoring solution and free Top 4 Security Controls service.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RSA news round-up )〕 On April 7, 2014, the OpenSSL security bug, Heartbleed, was publicly disclosed. The following day, Qualys released a detection for Heartbleed through its Qualys SSL Labs and QualysGuard Vulnerability Management (VM).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Qualys Releases Detection for HeartBleed OpenSSL Vulnerability )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How to check if your favorite websites are vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug )〕 In September 2014, Qualys released a detection for Bash Shellshock through Qualys Vulnerability Management (VM). In January 2015, Qualys announced a vulnerability in the Linux GNU C Library, known as GHOST, and released a patch through Qualys Vulnerability Management (VM). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Qualys」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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