Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026 Signal the Maturation of Risk-First Security Models

Key Takeaways Cyber risk management gets operationalized in 2026. Leading organizations move beyond visibility and frameworks to govern risk through prioritization, simulation, and deliberate action. Attack-path modeling matures into execution. Static views give way to dynamic, decision-driving...

What Is Exposure Management Cybersecurity? A Guide

For too long, security has been a defensive game of whack-a-mole. A new threat appears, and we scramble to patch it. But what if we could see our organizations the way an attacker does? Attackers don’t care about your patching cadence or your CVSS scores. They look for the path of least...

Why Replace Kenna with Hive Pro? A Full Comparison

If your security team is drowning in alerts and spending more time triaging than remediating, you know the old approach to vulnerability management is broken. Chasing endless CVEs and trying to stitch together data from a dozen different tools leads to burnout and leaves critical gaps in your...

New Research: 64% of 3rd-Party Applications Access Sensitive Data Without Justification

Research analyzing 4,700 leading websites reveals that 64% of third-party applications now access sensitive data without business justification, up from 51% in 2024. Government sector malicious activity spiked from 2% to 12.9%, while 1 in 7 Education sites show active compromise. Specific...

The 5 Stages of Cyber Threat Exposure Management

Think of your security posture like a fortress. Traditional vulnerability management gives you a long list of every potential weakness—a loose stone here, a weak gate there. A cyber threat exposure management CTEM program acts as your chief strategist, analyzing intelligence to show you exactly...

Vulnerability Management vs Exposure Management: The Next Step

An attacker doesn’t care about your long list of CVEs or your internal CVSS scores. They care about finding a single path into your network. This is the fundamental idea that separates the old way of thinking from the new. The discussion around vulnerability management vs exposure management is...

The Kenna Transition: Your Strategic Shift to Exposure Management

How the Kenna sunset is giving security leaders the opportunity to outgrow vulnerability silos and adopt a unified exposure management model...

How Threat Intelligence Transforms Vulnerability Management

Your security team isn't just fixing technical flaws; they're protecting the business from tangible risks. The problem is, a list of thousands of CVEs doesn't communicate business impact very well. It’s just noise until you can connect a vulnerability to a potential outcome. Threat intelligence...

Navigating Change: Evolving Your Exposure Management Strategy in a Post-Kenna World with Qualys

Key Takeaways Cisco is ending support for it vuln management product formerly Kenna Security by June 2028 Risk-based vulnerability management RBVM used to be adequate, but is no longer sufficient Exposure assessment platforms allow you to assess risks from all organizational risk surfaces SOC...

It's Here! Wiz Exposure Management is Now GA

Moving beyond CVE counts to true exposure management everywhere with new UVM and ASM capabilities, now GA...

Inside Hive Pro: A Complete Platform Review

Knowing you have a vulnerability is one thing; knowing if you’re truly exposed is another. A critical vulnerability might exist on a server, but can an attacker actually reach it? Will your firewall block the attempt? Will your EDR detect the payload? Traditional vulnerability management can't...

How BAS Helps Threat Exposure Management: A Complete Guide

Your vulnerability scanner just produced a report with hundreds of "critical" CVEs. Now what? For most security teams, this is where the guessing game begins. You know you can't fix everything at once, so you're forced to make tough calls based on CVSS scores and gut feelings, all while hoping yo...

The Journey from Vulnerability Management to Exposure Management: A Critical and Timely Shift

After spending close to 6 years analyzing the cybersecurity market and authoring multiple Magic Quadrant reports, I've witnessed countless technology and market transitions and evolutions. On-prem deployment to SaaS Anti-virus to Endpoint Protection Platform EPP to EDR to XDR VM to RBVM and many...

A Guide to Exposure Management Cybersecurity Best Practices

Attackers don't think in terms of CVE scores. They look for the path of least resistance, whether it's a forgotten server, a misconfigured cloud bucket, or an exposed API. While your team is busy prioritizing a long list of software flaws, a real threat could be exploiting a simple oversight that...

5 Exposure Management Best Practices for Your Team

Let's be honest: the traditional approach to vulnerability management is broken. Your team is likely drowning in a sea of alerts, staring at scan reports thousands of lines long, and struggling to figure out what to fix first. This constant state of reactive fire-fighting is exhausting and, worse...

The Evolution of SOC Operations: How Continuous Exposure Management Transforms Security Operations

Security Operations Centers SOC today are overwhelmed. Analysts handle thousands of alerts every day, spending much time chasing false positives and adjusting detection rules reactively. SOCs often lack the environmental context and relevant threat intelligence needed to quickly verify which aler...

5 Best Threat Exposure Management Tools for 2025

A long list of vulnerabilities without context isn't a security strategy—it's just noise. Legacy vulnerability scanners are great at finding potential flaws, but they often fail to answer the most important question: "What should we fix right now?" This is why Threat Exposure Management TEM...

Houston CISO Meetup: The Strategic Shift from Mass Vulnerability Scanning to Proactive Exposure Reduction

Key takeaways from a CISO dinner with Al Lindseth and Hive Pro's Critt Golden. If you were one of the many CISO’s, CIO’s or cybersecurity leaders who joined our Threat Exposure Management dinner at Del Frisco’s Steak House in Houston yesterday, thank you for joining an oversold event! If you didn...

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Qualys Named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Exposure Management Vendor Assessment

We’re proud to announce that Qualys has been recognized as a Leader in theIDC MarketScape: Worldwide Exposure Management 2025 Vendor Assessment doc US52994525, August 2025. We believe this recognition underscores Qualys’ commitment to helping organizations proactively manage cyber risk with...