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Qualys powers up Autonomous RemOps with TruRisk Eliminate 2.0 with TruConfidence. Published: 15 October 2026 21:43 Qualys used its Qualys ROCON Americas event this week in Austin to announce TruRisk Eliminate 2.0 with TruConfidence, a new remediation intelligence and orchestration engine that powers Qualys' vision for Autonomous RemOps, a new category for the frontier AI era. Was that Autonomous RemOps there? Yes... Autonomous RemOps is an AI-driven security operations framework that automatically fixes, mitigates, and orchestrates cyber risk remediation across hybrid environments at machine speed while ensuring operational continuity and zero business disruption. Built on Qualys' experience of deploying half a billion patches with less than 0.1% rollback, of which 40% were deployed autonomously, TruRisk Eliminate combines the latest advances in autonomous remediation, remediation intelligence and orchestration to help organisations confidently eliminate cyber risk at machine speed while maintaining business resiliency and continuity. As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation, the ability to remediate risk has become a critical constraint. Traditional remediation limitations. Security teams must not only determine what needs to be fixed, but also account for controls already protecting the environment, select the appropriate, safe remediation path, manage deployment risk across increasingly complex environments and verify that remediation succeeded without disrupting business operations. Qualys says that traditional remediation processes, built around manual decisions, tickets and point solutions, were not designed for this level of speed or complexity. According to Sumedh Thakar, president and CEO, Qualys, writing on LinkedIn, "Today one of the biggest vulnerabilities for an organisation is a slow patching programme. While autonomous remediation is the solution, teams are hesitant to patch because of a lack of confidence that it won't create a business outage." He says that after deploying over half a billion patches, Qualys is now providing its customers all the intelligence needed to avoid patches if they can, use an AI reliability score if they must patch... and he points to the company's new partnership with Dynatrace, which means it can monitor the resiliency of an application after patching to roll back to a previous state if something doesn't work. "For years, security teams found vulnerabilities and IT operations teams patched them. That handoff was built for exploitation timelines measured in weeks. With frontier AI, those timelines are now measured in hours, and neither team can close that gap alone," said Jon Nelson, principal advisory director in the security & privacy practice, Info-Tech Research Group. Nelson thinks that Qualys TruRisk Eliminate gives security a "viable path to drive remediation at machine speed", with patch reliability scoring, progressive rollouts, and patchless mitigation that reduce the risk of disrupting operations. Operating model for Autonomous RemOps. TruConfidence is the cyber risk remediation and orchestration intelligence engine that turns TruRisk Eliminate into an operating model for Autonomous RemOps. It brings together the capabilities Qualys introduced over the past two quarters, including the AI-powered Patch Reliability Score, intelligent wave-based remediation orchestrated by Agent Sara, peer-to-peer distribution and compensating controls with intelligence drawn from half a billion real-world patch deployments. These capabilities enable organisations to reduce exposure with the least disruptive remediation, while avoiding duplicate protections already provided by existing controls. This establishes the core operating loop for Autonomous RemOps: fix the minimum, credit existing controls, choose the right remediation path, control the rollout, and prove that it held. TruRisk Eliminate with TruConfidence enables organisations to: * Remediate across the entire hybrid attack surface. TruRisk Eliminate now reaches perimeter devices, cloud, and applications, not just agent-based endpoints, to patch, mitigate without a patch, uninstall, isolate or apply a custom fix wherever the exposure lives. Assets that cannot run an agent are remediated through Qualys scanners and existing security and IT integrations, so nothing is left waiting on a manual workaround. * Reduce exposure when patching is not the answer. TruConfidence first credits what existing security controls already protect, so teams avoid duplicate coverage. When exposures remain, built-in third-party mitigation intelligence identifies available compensating controls and applies mitigations through security tools customers already run on their perimeter and endpoints. This reduces exposure while a permanent fix is planned or validated, moving organisations from "wait for a patch" to "taking the right available action." * Ensure operational continuity, with no business disruption after remediation. After every action, TruRisk Eliminate monitors system health through integrations with partners such as Dynatrace, watching for CPU spikes, memory issues and other service-impacting conditions. When a fix does not hold, AI-powered Patch Failure Analysis explains why it happened and recommends the corrective action, such as a rollback. "Autonomous exploitation requires an equally automated remediation, but organisations' hesitation isn't about automation; it's a lack of confidence that it won't cause an outage", said Thakar. "That's why we're excited to introduce TruRisk Eliminate with TruConfidence, moving beyond patching to turn remediation intelligence into action with the Risk Operations Center (ROC) so organisations have the confidence to reduce cyber risk quickly while reducing outage concerns." Qualys TruRisk Eliminate 2.0 with TruConfidence is now generally available with a free upgrade for existing TruRisk Eliminate customers. Kunal Modasiya, senior vice president, product management, GTM and growth at Qualys has blogged to explain more.# "Patch automation was never the blocker. Confidence is: without evidence of how a change will behave, Security and IT teams default to caution, and the remediation backlog keeps growing," writes Modasiya. ""Autonomous RemOps replaces ticket-driven processes with a continuous, evidence-based cycle - Decide, Execute, Prove. It determines what to fix, executes across the attack surface, and demonstrates that the business remained resilient." What should developers think next? As Qualys itself has said, Autonomous RemOps is impacting software developers and DevSecOps teams who can now shift patch deployment from manual ticketing to AI-driven automation - and that means software engineers must adapt their development workflows. Rather than context-switching to handle emergency security tickets, developers can centralise thier focus on building resilient runtime environments and move forward to an immediate future (now) where patching becomes a progressive deployment pipeline rather than a disruptive fire drill.

Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) CEO sells $609,152.00 in stock. October 15, 2026 Key points. * Qualys CEO Sumedh Thakar sold 3,200 shares for approximately $609,152 under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, reducing his ownership by 1.77% to 177,138 shares. * Qualys shares rose 1.6% to $192.65, near the company's 12-month high of $206.25, while the stock's market capitalization reached approximately $6.67 billion. * The company recently exceeded quarterly earnings and revenue expectations, reporting $1.98 EPS and $182.18 million in revenue; analysts' consensus rating remains Hold, with an average price target of $180.53. * Five stocks we like better than Qualys. Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ:QLYS - Get Free Report) CEO Sumedh Thakar sold 3,200 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, October 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $190.36, for a total value of $609,152.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 177,138 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $33,719,989.68. This trade represents a 1.77% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Qualys stock up 1.6%. QLYS stock traded up $3.02 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $192.65. The company's stock had a trading volume of 524,984 shares, compared to its average volume of 750,806. Qualys, Inc. has a 12 month low of $74.51 and a 12 month high of $206.25. The firm has a market capitalization of $6.67 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 33.33 and a beta of 0.60. The company has a 50 day moving average of $182.68 and a two-hundred day moving average of $137.55. Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS - Get Free Report) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, August 4th. The software maker reported $1.98 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.78 by $0.20. Qualys had a net margin of 29.38% and a return on equity of 37.52%. The firm had revenue of $182.18 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $178.57 million. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $1.68 EPS. The business's revenue was up 11.1% compared to the same quarter last year. Qualys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.740-7.880 EPS and its Q3 2026 guidance at 1.910-1.980 EPS. On average, analysts anticipate that Qualys, Inc. will post 5.84 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. Analyst upgrades and downgrades. A number of research firms have issued reports on QLYS. Jefferies Financial Group raised their price target on shares of Qualys from $150.00 to $185.00 and gave the stock a "hold" rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 5th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their price target on Qualys from $139.00 to $150.00 and gave the company a "neutral" rating in a report on Monday, July 27th. Wall Street Zen downgraded Qualys from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research report on Saturday, September 12th. Truist Financial increased their price target on shares of Qualys from $160.00 to $185.00 and gave the stock a "hold" rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 5th. Finally, Zacks Research raised Qualys from a "hold" rating to a "strong-buy" rating in a research report on Tuesday, August 11th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, three have given a Buy rating, eleven have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of "Hold" and an average target price of $180.53. Institutional inflows and outflows. A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of QLYS. ZWJ Investment Counsel Inc. increased its position in shares of Qualys by 4.9% in the third quarter. ZWJ Investment Counsel Inc. now owns 2,114 shares of the software maker's stock worth $396,000 after purchasing an additional 98 shares during the period. ANB Bank acquired a new position in Qualys in the third quarter valued at about $333,000. GAMMA Investing LLC lifted its position in Qualys by 32.2% during the third quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 2,086 shares of the software maker's stock worth $390,000 after purchasing an additional 508 shares during the period. Farther Finance Advisors LLC lifted its position in Qualys by 25.8% during the third quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC now owns 527 shares of the software maker's stock worth $99,000 after purchasing an additional 108 shares during the period. Finally, Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC lifted its position in Qualys by 170.8% during the second quarter. Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC now owns 7,527 shares of the software maker's stock worth $1,035,000 after purchasing an additional 4,747 shares during the period. 99.31% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds. About Qualys. Qualys, Inc provides cloud-based information technology, security and compliance solutions for organizations worldwide. Its platform is designed to help businesses identify, assess and manage security vulnerabilities across their networks, endpoints, cloud environments and web applications. The company's offerings include vulnerability management, asset inventory, security and compliance assessment, web application security, endpoint detection and response, and cloud security capabilities. 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