Eliminating Risks of Patch Tuesday Using Agent Sara
Meet Agent Sara, your new ally in navigating the complex world of cybersecurity. This AI-powered assistant, part of Qualys Enterprise TruRiskTM Management (ETM), is designed to simplify your Vulnerability Management, Detection & Response (VMDR) operations.
With Agent Sara, all you need to do is ask a question, and she'll interpret it, execute relevant queries, and deliver contextual, actionable insights. Whether it's about the vulnerabilities disclosed in a specific Patch Tuesday or the status of a particular issue, Agent Sara has got you covered.
Prioritising and Streamlining Remediation
One of the biggest challenges in cybersecurity is deciding what to fix first and mapping the right patches or identifying vendor-provided fixes when patches are not yet available or can't be deployed due to operational risk. Agent Sara steps in here, prioritising vulnerabilities for remediation and providing insights about the number of these vulnerabilities that are patchable.
Moreover, when a patch is not available, Agent Sara provides out-of-the-box permanent fixes or points to the available fixes provided by TruRisk Eliminate. She can even suggest mitigation for legacy vulnerabilities such as CVE-2013-2900 WinVerifyTrust Signature Validation Vulnerability.
Faster Risk Elimination with Actionable Remediation Plans
Agent Sara's AI-powered capabilities, provided by Agentic AI, deliver accurate insights and drive faster risk elimination with actionable remediation plans. Agentic AI provides out-of-the-box remediation scripts for vulnerabilities, saving time spent on researching, creating, and testing remediation scripts.
This means that Agent Sara remediate or mitigate vulnerabilities using multiple risk elimination strategies, with the ultimate goal of reducing risk across the enterprise. With Agent Sara, the Mean Time to Remediation (MTTR) is significantly reduced, resulting in faster remediation cycles.
A Helping Hand for SecOps and IT Teams
SecOps teams can benefit greatly from Agent Sara. By providing contextual, actionable insights about the vulnerabilities disclosed in a specific Patch Tuesday, Agent Sara helps prioritise vulnerabilities and forward them to IT teams for remediation.
Moreover, Agent Sara prioritises vulnerabilities for remediation based on the assets owned by specific teams (e.g., HR, Finance, Business Apps Teams), ensuring that critical assets are protected first.
While there is no publicly available information about companies supported by Agent Sara in 2023 using Agentic AI technology to replace unavailable security updates with TruRisk Eliminate solutions, it's clear that Agent Sara is a valuable asset in any organisation's vulnerability management program. The goal of such a program is to eliminate risk, often achieved through a combination of patching and scripting solutions. With Agent Sara, this goal is made more achievable and efficient.
In a nutshell, Agent Sara is a game-changer in the realm of cybersecurity, transforming user questions into enriched, prioritized insights and driving the next logical action, all with the aim of reducing risk across the enterprise.
