Qualys, Inc. provides

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, compliance and related services and is based in Foster City, California. Qualys provides vulnerability management solutions using a "

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" (SaaS) model. It has added cloud-based compliance and web application security offerings. Qualys has over 10,300 customers in more than 130 countries, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100. The company has strategic partnerships with major

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providers and consulting organizations including BT, Dell SecureWorks,

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, IBM, NTT,

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, and

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. The company is also a founding member of the

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(CSA).

History

Qualys has been described as "one of the earliest software-as-a-service security vendors." Philippe Courtot first invested in the company in 1999. He became CEO and board chair in 2001. In the announcement of the second round of financing, Courtot described Qualys as addressing a "mounting need for automatic detection of network vulnerabilities." The company launched QualysGuard in 2000, making Qualys one of the first entrants in the vulnerability management market. This software could automatically scan corporate LANs for vulnerabilities and search for an available patch. The company subsequently added compliance, malware detection, and web application scanning to its platform. Qualys went public on NASDAQ with the symbol QLYS on September 28, 2012, raising net proceeds of $87.5 million. Qualys then launched its Cloud Platform and lightweight cloud agent to continuously assess the security and compliance of organizations' global IT infrastructure and applications. The new Cloud Platform helped organizations assess and address the security and compliance of their IT assets in real-time, whether on-premises, cloud-based or mobile. Organizations use the Qualys Cloud Platform and its integrated apps to simplify IT and security operations and help reduce cyber risk. Qualys is known for its vulnerability management, detection and response (VMDR) solution and asset management, and has added patch, cloud, container, and mobile security capabilities along with

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(EDR) and now extended detection and response (XDR).

Awards

Qualys won two

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in 2021, in the categories of “Best Privilege Escalation Bug” and “Most Under-Hyped Research”. Qualys honored by SC Media as the winner for Best Vulnerability Management Solution in its 2020 Trust Awards. Qualys received 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice Award for Vulnerability Assessment. In 2017 Frost & Sullivan recognized Qualys with 2017 Global Vulnerability Management Market Leadership Award. Throughout its history Qualys has received a number of other awards.

References

External links

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Qualys SSL Labs Vulnerability Scanner
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