How Federal Agencies Can Activate a Risk Operations Center (ROC) to Meet CISA BOD 26-04

Executive Summary Recognizing the ability of Frontier AI models to discover and exploit vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed and scale, CISA 's Binding Operational Directive BOD 26-04 marks a significant shift in federal vulnerability management. The directive introduces aggressive mandates,...

Why Every Enterprise Needs a Risk Operations Center (ROC)

Enterprise security has long optimized for speed of response over prevention of risk. At Qualys, we recognized early that this left half the problem unsolved, and we have spent years building the operational frameworks to close that gap. The Risk Operations Center is the result. Here is a scenari...

ROC vs. CTEM: How a Risk Operations Center Evolves Beyond Continuous Threat Exposure Management in 2026

Key Takeaways: The Essentials of ROC vs. CTEM What is a ROC? A risk operations center ROC is a centralized command hub that unifies cyber risk management across security, IT, and compliance. It uses agentic AI to provide a real-time view of business risk, prioritize what matters, and then automat...

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...

The Future of Cloud Security: A New Act for Cyber Risk Operations

Qualys, the leader in Cyber Risk Operations, is proud to be recognized in Latio Tech’s 2025 Cloud Security Market Report as a leader in both CTEM and the Cloud Security Ecosystem. This acknowledgement by Latio Tech reinforces the strength of our strategy—anchored by the industry’s first Risk...

Shaping the Future of Cyber Risk Management: QSC Evolves to ROCon

Over the last year, I’ve had the privilege of meeting with thousands of CIOs, CISOs, and security leaders across the globe. What I hear repeatedly is clear: managing cyber risk is more complex than ever, driven by the evolving digital, threat, and regulatory landscape. The number of vulnerabiliti...

Qualys Unveils mROC: The Industry’s First Managed Risk Operation Center To Help Partners Scale Risk Management Services

The launch of Enterprise TruRisk Management ETM, the world’s first Risk Operations Center ROC in the cloud, in October 2024 has met with an overwhelmingly positive reception from customers. They see the potential of a unified approach to managing cyber risk. We recognize that setting up and...

The Future of Cybersecurity Risk Management: Risk Operations Center (ROC) delivered by Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Management (ETM)

" A problem well defined is a problem half solved." – Charles Kettering In today’s digital landscape, organizations are overwhelmed with risk signals from all directions—cloud vulnerabilities, misconfigurations in custom code, operational technology OT gaps, and third-party integrations, to name ...