Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a leading provider of cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, has published its Cloud Security Forecast 2026 report, warning that cloud compromise is increasingly driven by how environments are designed and operated, rather than by novel attack techniques. The research signals a shift from exploit-driven breaches to design-driven compromise, where risk stems from architectural decisions and operational practices. It highlights consistent patterns across organisations, industries and cloud providers, including over-permissioned identities, expanding trust relationships, and exposure that lingers long enough to be exploited.

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a leading provider of cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, today released a new research report, The Broken Physics of Remediation, revealing how exploitation timelines are outpacing human-scale remediation, and why traditional patch metrics can no longer describe true business exposure.

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a leading provider of cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, today launched Agent Val within Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) to bring safe, agent-led exploit validation and autonomous risk remediation to the Risk Operations Centre (ROC). Agent Val represents a fundamental shift in vulnerability and exposure management from assumption-driven prioritisation to evidence-based execution, accelerating response, reducing wasted effort, and delivering measurable reductions to cyber risk.