MetricStream Partners with US's Qualys

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Bangalore: Metric Stream a renowned Bangalore based company which offers Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions for enterprises has partnered with the US based company Qualys, Inc and announced the amalgamation of MetricStream IT GRC solution and Vulnerability Management (VM) of QualysGuard. QualysGuard is a US based company and provides services like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) IT security and risk and compliance management solutions.

As per the companies press release many compliance regulations today lay out requirements for IT security and business risks. This has led to a greater convergence between the disciplines of IT security and IT-GRC. The joint solution addresses this convergence, providing an integrated and efficient approach to managing IT risks. QualysGuard VM locates and identifies network devices and applications, scans those devices and applications to detect vulnerabilities, and provides detailed information on the nature of those vulnerabilities. MetricStream IT-GRC solution imports this data in real time, and initiates immediate remedial action by assigning investigative responsibilities to the appropriate personnel. Automatic alerts ensure that action plans are carried out to closure, while advanced dashboards and reports provide in-depth visibility into the status of each case, enabling real-time tracking and trend analysis.

“IT security managers are under enormous pressure to protect IT assets – a task that becomes more challenging as networks grow more complex, and security threats become more sophisticated,” said Vidya Phalke, CTO at MetricStream. He also added that “The use of virtualized infrastructure is rising, smart phones and tablets are proliferating, reliance on managed IT services is increasing, and business managers are independently driving the adoption of cloud applications. These trends are introducing a whole new class of risks and threats that enterprises need to deal with. Our partnership with Qualys will strengthen organizations’ ability to tackle these security risks and compliance challenges.”

Phillippe Courtot, Chairman and CEO of Qualys said that companies today need to match up with the drastically and rapidly changing regulatory requirements, along with protecting data and assets of the company against latest security threats he also said that “The integrated MetricStream and QualysGuard solution gives management the visibility required to effectively manage security risks, and ensure compliance.”

The integration of both the companies will now have a joint solution that offers a single dynamic centralized and scalable framework that would help consumers automatically monitor and capture network and asset vulnerabilities and allow them to route these issues through an organized and systematic process of investigation and remediation. This solution also enables users to map security issues to business applications, help quickly identify and report the vulnerabilities affecting business critical assets and also send the gathered information across their enterprises for proactive palliation.