Qualys Launches First Agentic AI-Powered Risk Operations Center for Autonomous Risk Management
Foster City, Calif., August 4, 2025 – Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a leader in cloud-based IT security and compliance, has introduced new Agentic AI features on its platform. This innovation includes a marketplace of Cyber Risk AI Agents that provide real-time risk insights, prioritize vulnerabilities based on business impact, and autonomously manage remediation efforts. The result is a smarter, more efficient Risk Operations Center (ROC) that improves security posture while lowering operational costs.
Transforming Risk Management with Agentic AI
The volume and complexity of cyber threats have surged, leaving security teams overwhelmed by millions of exposures and lacking actionable context. Without intelligent automation, teams face manual bottlenecks that slow down risk prioritization and remediation. Qualys’ Agentic AI addresses this challenge by automating repetitive tasks and enabling autonomous workflows that focus on risk reduction and faster protection.
Tyler Shields, principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, notes that integrating Agentic AI shifts security from reactive responses to real-time risk reduction. Autonomous remediation combined with intelligent prioritization allows teams to reduce risk more quickly, use resources more efficiently, and improve the accuracy of recommended actions. This shifts the role of security teams from tactical responders to strategic orchestrators of AI-driven processes.
Enhancing Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) with AI
Agentic AI is embedded into Qualys’ Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM), boosting risk-centric automation and accelerating decision-making. ETM, a key part of the ROC, collects and correlates exposures to measure and eliminate cyber risk aligned with business priorities. The new AI fabric delivers pre-built AI agents that prioritize threats and guide remediation strategies based on each organization’s risk appetite and environment.
Additionally, the Cyber Risk Assistant offers a prompt-driven interface that helps teams translate massive exposure data into context-aware insights and autonomous actions, simplifying the risk management process.
Qualys Marketplace: Ready-to-Use AI Agents for Risk Operations
- Continuous Risk Insights and Prioritization – AI agents continuously discover external attack surfaces from a hacker’s perspective, assess risk against current industry threats, and prioritize exposures based on asset and environmental context. This reduces complexity and operational costs in managing cyber risk.
- Adaptive Remediation for Faster Vulnerability Closure – Agents like the Microsoft Patch Tuesday Lifecycle Agent analyze prioritized vulnerabilities and asset context to speed up remediation efforts. This helps reduce the mean time to remediation (MTTR), saving time and cost.
- Custom AI Agent Creation – Security teams can build no-code, pretrained AI agents suited to their specific workflows. These agents operate autonomously and can be reused, enabling scalable automation tailored to unique risk management needs.
Sumedh Thakar, president and CEO of Qualys, highlights that Agentic AI within ETM is changing how organizations handle cyber risk. It empowers CISOs to augment their security teams with intelligent AI agents that analyze risks and take decisive actions rapidly and efficiently.
Availability
Agentic AI features are available now in preview at Black Hat U.S. Visit Qualys at booth #2233 or sign up here to experience the future of AI-powered risk management.
For more details, visit Qualys official website.
Your membership also unlocks:
