Do CISOs really need to be on top of every new AI innovation? What should they really be focused on? Qualys President & CEO Sumedh Thakar shares his insights in On Location for StudioC60 / ISTP Magazine. Don’t miss the full interview here: bit.ly/4ry2Vl5 For more exclusive insights for CISOs and security professionals, register for ROCon Americas 2026 and get access to workshops, demos, and expert speaking sessions: bit.ly/4xAX4fX #CISO #Cybersecurity

Don’t miss our Keynote Session at the virtual CSA AI Security Summit 2026, featuring Qualys’ Nathan Smolenski. This session examines the intersection of AI governance, cybersecurity, executive oversight, and regulatory accountability. Find out how autonomous AI changes risk ownership, impacts board responsibilities, and creates new obligations for technology and business leaders. This presentation will outline practical governance patterns, oversight models, and accountability frameworks that organizations can use to safely adopt agentic AI while maintaining compliance, transparency, and stakeholder trust. Register now and don’t miss this event on Wednesday, October 21: events.zoom.us/ev/AoFVZs1PJ6…

That’s a wrap on #ROCon26! We spent three days in Austin with CISOs, customers, partners and practitioners, all working on one question. How do you eliminate cyber risk at the speed of frontier AI? The energy came from the conversations. Customers shared how they’re moving from measuring risk to eliminating it. Partners showed how they’re scaling risk operations for the organizations they serve. And the hallway debates kept going long after the last session ended. We launched TruRisk Eliminate with TruConfidence to deliver AI powered remediation intelligence so teams can fix what matters most at machine speed without disrupting the business. Thank you to everyone who shared their ideas, asked great questions at ROCon and brought their skills and competitive spirit to the RiskBusters competition. We’ll see you in 2027. #ROCon26 #Cybersecurity

That’s a wrap on Day 3 of #ROCon2026! Three days of expert insights, customer experiences, partner perspectives, and conversations on turning cyber risk into action. From Ivan Milenkovic’s Risk Yoga keynote on staying focused amid the chaos of Frontier AI, to @saeed4bbasi demonstrating how Qualys Threat Research uncovers emerging threats, the day brought practical insights into what it takes to manage cyber risk in the AI era. But understanding risk is only part of the equation. The next step is acting on it. As AI accelerates the pace of exploitation, remediation has to keep up. That means moving beyond patching alone to take the right action, at the right time, with the confidence to reduce risk without disrupting the business. Thanks to everyone who joined us in Austin! Stay tuned for our ROCon recap and key takeaways on operationalizing your AI-ROC.

ROCon Americas 2026 mainstage kicked off in Austin today. Qualys President and CEO Sumedh Thakar opened the day with a clear message. “Autonomous exploitation requires an equally automated remediation.” He then unveiled TruRisk Eliminate 2.0 with TruConfidence, the AI-powered remediation intelligence engine that powers Autonomous RemOps for the frontier AI era. Built on Qualys’ experience deploying half a billion patches, TruConfidence helps organizations eliminate risk at machine speed without putting business operations at risk. It extends remediation across endpoints, perimeter devices, cloud and applications, applies compensating mitigations when patching isn’t an option, and monitors system health after every action. From there, attendees went deep in sessions and panels with security leaders, customers and Qualys experts on how to measure, communicate and eliminate cyber risk in the AI era. Thank you to everyone who joined us today. See you tomorrow for Day 2. #ROCon2026 Learn more about TruConfidence and 2.0 here: lnkd.in/gkT5qs89 #ROCon26 #Cybersecurity #FrontierAI #TruRiskEliminate

We’re excited to announce the official launch of Qualys’ TruRisk Eliminate 2.0! 2.0 is powered by TruConfidence, an AI-powered remediation and orchestration intelligence engine. It gives you the intelligence and confidence to run autonomous RemOps while keeping operations resilient. In this current frontier AI era, vulnerabilities are being discovered faster than we can close them. The confidence gap is why the backlog keeps growing – TruRisk 2.0 closes that confidence gap by employing Agent Sara and TruConfidence, our remediation and orchestration intelligence engine. Give your board confidence in security and business continuity with TruRisk Eliminate 2.0. Learn more here: qualys.com/truconfidence-blo… #TruConfidence #FrontierAI #Cybersecurity #TruRiskEliminate2.0

ROCon Americas 2026 kicks off in Austin with a full day of hands-on training. Attendees are building practical skills through real-world scenarios, learning directly from Qualys experts and gaining product knowledge they can put to work with their teams. They can also earn CPE credits. A big thank you to our trainers for sharing their expertise and to our registration team for giving everyone a warm welcome to Austin this morning. Tomorrow, the main conference begins. Follow along for announcements, product innovations and more from #ROCon2026.

This month’s release addresses an astounding 1414 vulnerabilities, including 78 critical and 1329 important-severity vulnerabilities. With a huge jump in vulnerabilities after the Mythos launch, it's clear that this trend has become the new normal. It's now more critical than ever to cover your bases with tools like Qualys' TruRisk Eliminate. With frontier AI driving a surge like this, no team can keep up with manual remediation. The solution is automation that fights AI with AI. Don't miss our exciting announcements that will be coming soon at our Risk Operations Center Conference 2026 this very week. Learn all about the newest Patch Tuesday findings here, and RSVP for the webinar as well : blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilit… #Vulnerabilities #Cybersecurity #ROCon26

ROCon26 Americas is coming in less than 4 days! In addition to networking sessions, workshops, demos, and panels, centered around proactive cyber risk management for the frontier AI era, we’ll also have our four keynote speakers: Sumedh Thakar, Cynthia Kaiser, Shailesh Athalye, and Ivan Milenkovic. Their keynotes will touch upon the future of TruRisk Eliminate, cybersecurity for critical infrastructure, and how to build your own AI-Risk Operations Center. Don’t miss their insights and register for ROCon now: qualys.com/rocon/2026/americ… #Cybersecurity #ROCon2026 #FrontierAI

What’s next for Qualys’ TruRisk Eliminate? Manual patching by ticket had a good run. For years, Qualys customers have gone beyond patching to mitigating the risks that patching alone can’t reach. But AI is now finding vulnerabilities faster than any queue can move. So we kept building, toward remediation that doesn’t wait on a ticket. The future is autonomous. Since launching TruRisk Eliminate, we’ve added groundbreaking capabilities such as Agent Sara, our AI agent for risk remediation, AI-powered patch reliability scoring. Along the way, we’ve resolved over half a billion patches, 50% of them autonomously with a <0.1% rollback. We’ll share what’s next for Eliminate at ROCon26 Americas, Oct 13–15 in Austin. qualys.com/rocon/2026/americ… #Cybersecurity #ROCon26

The latest Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management release brings Attack Path to show how attackers could chain findings to reach your critical assets, CISA BOD 26-04-aligned remediation prioritization with SLA tracking, industry-specific threat intelligence in TruLens, and multiple scanner selection for TruConfirm scans. ETM 1.13 Release Notes: bit.ly/3VEt6KQ #Qualys #cybersecurity #releasesummaryvideos

Only one week to go for ROCon26 Americas! This is the industry's only conference focused entirely on cyber risk operations. Over three days, you'll get hands-on training, deep dives into AI-speed detection, Hyper-prioritization, and Zero-day remediation with agentic AI and real-world case studies from practitioners at NiSource, Cintas, TD Bank and 3M on how they leverage Qualys to reduce risk at AI speed. Then put it to the test in our Risk Busters Capture the Flag, where you'll detect, prioritize and remediate at AI speed with your own agent. Join us in Austin, Oct. 13-15. Don't miss out and secure your spot today: qualys.com/rocon/2026/americ… #ROCon26 #Cybersecurity

Don’t miss the Riskbusters Capture the Flag event at our ROCon26 Americas conference! Do you think you can identify and eliminate vulnerabilities faster than anyone else in the room? Prove it! Join us for our Riskbusters challenge and you could win deluxe tech gadgets and bragging rights for the entire conference. 😎 Mission begins: October 14, 5:30 – 6:30PM CT. Winners announced and prizes awarded Thursday. Register here: bit.ly/4xAX4fX See you there and good luck! #ROCon26

Qualys Vulnerability Management (VMDR) Release 10.40 and Policy Audit Release 1.16: see what's new for cloud security and compliance teams. Set up cloud perimeter scans once using an organization-level connector for Azure and Google Cloud (GCP), search assets by last VM agent scan date in both the UI and API, and roll out Cloud Agents at scale across large environments. Plus, meet the new Qualys Policy Audit home page Vulnerability Management Release 10.40: bit.ly/4yrOOQK Policy Audit Release 1.16: bit.ly/4zbv0kA #Qualys #cybersecurity #releasesummaryvideos

Founded in 1970, Grupo Plaenge is the largest construction company in southern Brazil, creating structures where millions of people live and work. With such key responsibilities, it’s no wonder they turned to Qualys to transform their risk management environment. According to Director of IT and Security, Marcelo A.R. Pissinati, before switching over to Qualys, security was becoming a major pain point for the company. “As our business grew, so did the complexity of our IT landscape, and our existing vulnerability management tools were struggling to keep up... Integrasul helped us move to Qualys—the one platform that delivered it all.” Since then, they’ve been able to witness the Qualys difference. Plaenge achieved 89% improvement in their patch application efficiency, with plans to advance toward zero-touch patch automation. In addition, they reduced their VMDR security tickets by 40%. Learn how we were able to transform Plaenge’s cybersecurity landscape here: qualys.com/customers/success… #CyberSecurity #CustomerStory

Our partners are showing up in force at ROCon26 Americas. Join us in Austin, Oct. 13-15, to meet them in the Partner Pavilion and see how we're working together to help customers deploy their Risk Operations Center (ROC) and reduce risk at AI speed. Play Passport to Prizes while you're there. Visit every partner booth, get your passport stamped and take home an exclusive Qualys hoodie. Snap a photo with our partners along the way and tag us on social. Register now here: qualys.com/rocon/2026/americ… @Carahsoft @Claroty @kudelski @Lookout @Optiv @Oracle @synack @TDSYNNEX @TekStreaming @nozominetworks @KudelskiSec @InsightEnt #ROCon26 #Cybersecurity #Partners

ROCon26 Americas is now only two weeks away. @ABridgwater from @ComputerWeekly covers highlights of our upcoming event in Austin – like keynotes from experts like Cynthia Kaiser, a former FBI Cyber Deputy Director, and high-impact breakout sessions and workshops centered around CTEM, frontier AI, and establishing your own Risk Operations Center (ROC). Don’t forget that this is your biggest opportunity to modernize your exposure management program and get ready for the frontier AI era. Here’s what you can expect from the only cybersecurity conference focused on risk operations: bit.ly/4xY2guH Register now here: bit.ly/4xAX4fX #ROCon26 #Cybersecurity #FrontierAI

Qualys Container Security Release 1.45 is here! This release adds AWS Fargate container tracking with Qualys Locator Path (QLP), Azure Function scanning alongside AWS Lambda, and Active Package Detection that shows which packages are actually running. JAR SCA detection now also works in offline and air-gapped environments. Link to the Qualys Container Security RN 1.45: bit.ly/4xTssGX #Qualys #cybersecurity #releasesummaryvideos #containersecurity