Philippe Courtot - Qualys, Inc.
Management
So we're very excited with the WAS – with our WAS. Again, if you recall, we did our WAS 1.0, where we're very happy with the quality of the engine, but not so happy with the fact that we'd been too ambitious in the beginning to provide that one-click patching. So we had to go back again to the drawing board a little bit to open up our engine, et cetera, do some engineering work. And that's it. We've done it, so now today, we're bringing to market. At the same time, extension to our Web Application Scanning, which is the Web Application Scanning 5.0, which essentially adds two new elements: one is the ability to automatically scale, so now instead of having to configure the scanners to scan large numbers of application, you don't care, you just point the scanners, and they automatically load balance. And now we can scan very easily thousands of web applications. That's the one thing. And the second thing, and you will see why it's important to have the one-click patching, because what's the purpose of scanning thousands of web application if you cannot fix the code? So you need, of course, to eliminate the vulnerabilities. And the only practical way today on web application is to do the virtual patch. So, the second thing that the Web Application Firewall brings to the table is the ability to essentially scan the REST APIs, which open the door now to us looking at the mobile web applications. So that's again – that's the kind of a new market. And now, with the one-click patching, essentially we identified a vulnerability, and now we have made that very easy, with one click, the ability to patch. What was missing before, the mistake we had made that we had made that automatic. And then of course, nobody wanted to have that automatic. And so we had to open up everything, the key model. So now we can show exactly what the engine recommends that we do. So people can look at that, and then if everything is fine, tap click and the virtual patch is pushed and installed. So they go hand-in-hand. So that, we think, is going to do two things. One is accelerate our growth of Web Application Scanning. But also at the same time, add additional revenues with the Web Application Firewall. So we're very happy. It went GA like I think, last week, or a few days ago. So now it's GA. And we start to see some very good results.