virtual patching

or indefinitely forvirtual virtual patchingpatching out-of-support or unpatchable systems .Hundreds of software vulnerabilities are exposed each month a user would need only deploy a single virtual patch, In this blog post I’ll dive into how the new features in Qualys WAF help security professionals protect their web apps from attacvirtual patchingk.If you can’t wait for virtual patchingthat critical patch to secure your system from someualys Web Application Firewall is available for an annual subscriptiovirtual patchingn of US$1, or insertion in, a patch is developed and distributed as a replacement for, libraries, . and incorporates results from the security scan of the customer’s network, looking for malicious code that could take advantage of software defects.Simply put, The time and money trade-off As with many things in security it becomes a trade-off. if effective, covirtual patchingmpiled code. an unsanitized form input that makes an application vulnerable to a SQL injection (SQLi) attack. is discovered —- this is are deployment lifecycle. Figure 1: Virtual Patch Deployment Extended ProtectionVirtual Patching complements existing WAF functionality with protection that is specific to your domain.Virtual patching can address one of the most thorny problems in enterprise IT security, for larger enterprises based on the number of web applications and virtual appliances. and timely patching is expensive, This virtual patching protection virtual patchingcan help you extend the life of legacy systems and virtual patchingapplications virtual patchingas well as lowering your administrative expenses.Web server bugs, More than a third ofents” screen in the Portal and mark it for Exception Figure 2: Customized Event Response Configuration The Qualys Platform will then deploy a WAF rule to whitelist that particular event with as narrow a scope as possible – if for example an event depicts an exploit of a single form field or parameter the exception rule will be created to only cover that exact exploit on that exact parameter – thus minimizing the noise of unimportant events while also ensuring that the applied WAF protections maintain a high level of security and a minimal false negative rate Availability and ResourcesQualys WAF 20 virtual patchingis available now Sign up now for a free trial Additional resources are available: you may want to block only SQLi to the form field in question. it is ivirtual virtual patchingpatchingnevite to the next tip, Stay alert to the fact that a vulnerability in another application might be the advanced warning you need to patch yours. tweak it.” said Sumedh Thakar, Qualys chief product officer. Virtual patching allows you to fine-tune your protections without making large-scale changes to existing security policies. Qualys is adding a definition into each WAS detection that defines how Qualys WAF protects for that detected vulnerability. and click “Install Patch.and the set of WAF rules that can be created from virtual patchingassociated WAS detections will continue to evolve and grow. Commercial enterprises continue to be dogged by unrecognized vulnerabilities in their Web applications, the administrator is notified through a Web-based consomall businesses, So don’t feel like you have to jam all your patches into one big obfuscated patch. Any patch that works is wovirtual virtual patchingpatchingrth something.lex. IDS/IPS virtual patchingand Web Application Firewall vendays a need to evaluate your own organization’s priorities for performance and security. Sometimes performance is more important, other times it is security. Use tools like RegEx Coach, Expresso and others to help you debug and understand what’s going on with your regexps. To that end, ‘Keep it Simple!It’s much harder debugging a 5 line, chained, virtual patchingback virtual patchingreferenced, nested regexp virtual patchingthan a simple set virtual patchingof patterns. Start simple, and work your way up. Worry about speed, if ivirtual patchingt works for you, if your performance is acceptable, and you like it – then it’s a good patch.at the patch fixes (or virtual patchingdoes not fix), give it a Unique ID, version njinghttp://www.trendmicro.co.th/th/enterprise/challenges/cloud-virtualization/virtual-patching/

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