Success Story
Proactive Protection for a Booming Business
Plaenge Chooses Qualys to Deliver End-to-End Asset Visibility and Rapid, Intelligent Vulnerability Management Across a Growing IT Landscape
Summary
Plaenge is the largest construction company in southern Brazil, active in the real estate and industrial construction sectors.
Products
TruRisk Eliminate especially the Custom Assessment and Remediation (CAR) capability, CyberSecurity Asset Management (CSAM), TruRisk Eliminate, Vulnerability Management, Detection & Response (VMDR)
89%
improvement in patch application efficiency
1,000s
of previously undetected vulnerabilities identified
90%
reduction in MTTR (Mean Time to Remediate)
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Accelerated audit preparation with real-time compliance insight
Business Background
Plaenge builds structures where millions of people live and work, from high-end residential buildings to manufacturing plants for multinationals like Coca-Cola. To deliver these complex projects, the company relies on a vast range of digital systems, including building information modeling (BIM) tools, 3D design software, corporate management applications and more. Any downtime or failure in these systems could lead to missed deadlines, cost overruns and reputational damage, making effective vulnerability management essential.
As our business grew, so did the complexity of our IT landscape, and our existing vulnerability management tools were struggling to keep up. We targeted real-time visibility, risk-based prioritization and greater automation capabilities. Integrasul helped us move to Qualys—the one platform that delivered it all.”
Business Challenges
Protect a growing environment of more than 4,500 endpoints and 180 servers, both on-premises and in multi-cloud environments
Replace fragmented tools and manual processes with a consistent, automated approach
Gain continuous visibility of all assets and prioritize the most critical vulnerabilities
Qualys Solution
Qualys emerged as the clear choice to satisfy Plaenge’s growing cybersecurity demands. Marcelo A. R. Pissinati, Director of IT and Security at Plaenge, says: “Qualys stood out for the robustness of its platform, its broad asset coverage and its ability to unify inventory, vulnerability management and remediation in a single ecosystem. We evaluated other solutions, but Qualys presented the best balance between technical depth, scalability and operational simplicity.”
Working with teams from Qualys and local cybersecurity specialist Integrasul, Plaenge introduced an end-to-end platform for risk-based vulnerability management. CyberSecurity Asset Management (CSAM) provides a single, trusted inventory of assets across the company’s environment. Vulnerability Management, Detection & Response (VMDR) delivers real-time vulnerability detection and sophisticated risk-based prioritization, while TruRisk Eliminate adds integrated remediation and patching capabilities.
Ricardo Alonso Taniguchi, Cybersecurity Coordinator, Plaenge, comments: “Integrasul helped us to quickly strengthen our security posture, using Qualys to map our assets and identify potential vulnerabilities from shadow IT, legacy systems, firewall misconfigurations and weak or expired certificates. Crucially, Qualys allows us to scan systems while they’re running, so we always have an up-to-date view of assets and potential vulnerabilities.”
Working closely with Integrasul, Plaenge has embraced a proactive, risk-based approach to enterprise security, harnessing Qualys to enable continuous visibility, intelligent prioritization and a structured, automated methodology for remediating vulnerabilities.
Pissinati notes: “We can’t imagine operating without Qualys and Integrasul. Beyond the technology, it’s brought us genuine risk visibility and a trusted partnership. That combination keeps driving our cybersecurity maturity forward, ensuring the business remains protected as we continue to grow.”
Qualys brings clarity to what really matters. Instead of dealing with large volumes of vulnerabilities generically, we can now focus on the most serious threats and prioritize our most important assets. This has considerably strengthened our security posture.
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