RE: QualysGuard - VA/PT appliance

From: Richard Zaluski (rzaluski_at_ivolution.ca)
Date: 08/24/05

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    To: "'marc bayerkohler'" <lists.marc@gmail.com>, <pen-test@securityfocus.com>
    Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:30:20 -0400
    
    

    I had an opportunity to review the product at the InfoSec show in Orlando
    City and to be honest; I was not really very impressed. It looks and feels
    like another vulnerability scanner. I did find it somewhat amazing that the
    person I was talking with at the booth told me that this services makes
    Penetration Testing Obsolete. I think he's been reading this marketing
    material to much...

    The rep at the booth would not tell me what engine runs behind it (Nessus?)
    or anything much more technical or very in-depth such as their vulnerability
    signatures.. Are they produced by Qualys? Or ????.

    But you do get a nice bag to cart it around in ;-)

    My opinion is they are targeting this service at SMEs who do not have
    in-house skills and really don't understand security ... etc....

    Richard Zaluski
    CISO, Security and Infrastructure Services
    iVOLUTION Technologies Incorporated
    905.309.1911
    866.601.4678
    www.ivolution.ca
    rzaluski@ivolution.ca
     

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    -----Original Message-----
    From: marc bayerkohler [mailto:lists.marc@gmail.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 6:29 PM
    To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
    Subject: QualysGuard - VA/PT appliance

    This sounds just like the FusionVM product from CriticalWatch.

    http://www.criticalwatch.com/solutions.html

    You install their box, which VPNs home. You schedule the assessments
    and read the output through their portal.

    The reporting is very flexible, it is via a web application, so you
    can give a manager an account so he can view just the results for his
    machines, etc.

    It is also tied in to a ticketing system you can use for remediating the
    issues.

    marc bayerkohler

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    Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:49:26 +0530
    From: prasanna.mukundan@wipro.com
    To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
    Subject: QualysGuard - VA/PT appliance

    http://www.qualys.com/products/qgcons/

    We have are evaluating an appliance by Qualys, called QualysGuard that
    purportedly "enables security auditors to scope and perform detailed
    vulnerability assessments anytime, anywhere, using nothing more than a
    Web browser."

    Has anyone used this appliance? If so could you give me your feedback on
    the product?

    >From what I have seen of it in a couple of days, it seems to initiate a
    scan(for s/w vulnerabilities) from the intranet of a network, but sends
    the data to the internet/qualys server (and accessed via qualys'
    website), which imo while have the regulators and auditors screaming. I
    would appreciate if anyone could confirm/correct that.

    Thanks,
    Prasanna

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