Application Layers and Underlying Dangers Disguised in Your Software Architecture
In the ever-evolving digital landscape, ensuring the security of web applications, APIs, and AI workloads has become paramount. Qualys TotalAppSec, a unified platform, offers a robust solution to this challenge.
Qualys TotalAppSec is equipped with toxic combination detection, identifying high-risk scenarios such as orphaned web applications using insecure authentication and calling APIs with an IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference) vulnerability. This feature is designed to proactively prevent potential security breaches.
Comprehensive security testing for web applications is another key offering. This service covers the OWASP Top 10, detecting sensitive data leakage, misconfigurations, and insecure authentication. It also extends to purpose-built API security testing, designed to detect OWASP API Top 10 vulnerabilities, sensitive data exposure, misconfigurations, and hard-to-find issues like broken object level authorization (BOLA).
The platform's deep learning capabilities, through Web Malware Detection, spot exploit attempts with up to 99% accuracy, even in zero-day scenarios. This feature provides a significant advantage in the fight against evolving cyber threats.
Moreover, Qualys TotalAppSec offers AI-specific security testing, tailored to detect risks unique to AI workloads such as prompt injection, hallucination, misinformation, denial-of-service (DoS), knowledge base abuse, and other threats.
Qualys prioritises vulnerabilities based on asset criticality and real-world threat context, providing a centralized dashboard that displays asset status and streamlined workflows for onboarding untested assets. The platform also integrates with over 25+ threat intelligence feeds to gather key indicators such as exploit availability, CISA due dates, associated malware, and active attacker activity.
Automated inventory updates are available at configurable intervals, ensuring that the platform remains up-to-date with the latest asset information. Qualys offers a proactive security platform with a comprehensive inventory built from multiple sources.
The platform provides visibility into internal and internet-facing web apps, APIs, and AI workloads. One notable example of the platform's application can be seen in a security incident involving Artificial Intelligence and APIs within a global organization like Deutsche Bahn, which still uses decades-old Windows systems. This scenario highlights the risks from legacy software exposure within critical infrastructures.
Finally, Qualys calculates both Qualys Detection Score (QDS) for vulnerability-level risk and TruRiskTM Score for asset-level risk, providing a clear and actionable understanding of the security posture of an organisation's web applications, APIs, and AI workloads.
In conclusion, Qualys TotalAppSec offers a comprehensive solution for securing web applications, APIs, and AI workloads, providing deep, purpose-built risk assessment and proactive protection against a wide range of threats.
