Information Security reporter, Neil Roiter speaks with the director of the information security architecture group, Victor Hsiang of TransUnion. Victor shares how the Qualys Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model has enabled TransUnion, a global consumer credit reporting bureau, to streamline and easily extend its vulnerability management program to many locations.
"The product approach requires individual purchases of the license at each location, purchasing a platform to load licenses on and administration of that platform, then the care and feeding of it," says Victor Hsiang, director of TransUnion's information security architecture group.
"With the service approach, from a corporate perspective, we can pick up the cost of Qualys and absorb the business units into the whole process."Hsiang will beta test the Policy Compliance module at TransUnion, and expects it to integrate with his group's program of using the vulnerability management service and a central database to certify systems through a cycle of vulnerability scanning, ticketing and remediation.
"We won't have to reinvent the wheel; the compliance module fits into the architecture we've developed for tracking and fixing vulnerabilities," says Hsiang.
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Alex Pinchev has become the latest member to join the Qualys board of directors. Pinchev who is Red Hat's president of global sales, services and field marketing had this to say -- "Qualys has demonstrated significant traction and industry leadership through its successful SaaS delivery model and most recently with its integrated QualysGuard® Security and Compliance Suite. I look forward to working with the Qualys executive team and its board members to help drive on-demand security innovation."
