We’re excited to be back at Black Hat USA 2026; America's leading cyber security event and we would love to see you there.
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We’re excited to be back at Black Hat USA 2026; America's leading cyber security event and we would love to see you there.
Join Qualys at Black Hat to discover how to beat the flood of Mythos-driven vulnerabilities. We help you prioritize the exposures that matter and mitigate them autonomously before attackers can act.
Date: August 3 - 6, 2026
Location: Booth 2333 Mandalay Bay, Convention Center
Secure Your Meeting With Qualys
Book a one-to-one meeting with our security experts to discover how Qualys helps you reduce cyber risk, eliminate blind spots, and prioritize what matters most, before attackers act.
We offer several convenient ways to connect with our team:
Executive Workshop: An executive gathering focused on cyber risk, financial exposure, and security leadership at Black Hat. Wednesday, August 5 and Thursday, August 6.
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Control the Terrain: An Operational Framework for Beating Frontier AI-Driven Exposure
Richard Seiersen, Chief Risk Officer, Qualys
Frontier AI has changed the arithmetic of attack, moving faster than defense was built to match. Security teams work harder, triage more, patch faster. That response is losing. Why? Because winning is ill-defined: most organizations have no defensible way to measure exposure or tie it to loss, at a moment when security budgets compete directly with AI investment. This keynote makes the case for a different approach: one measure that works the same way across any exposure type, grounded in operations research and validated against MITRE ATT&CK, that ties directly to financial loss. Attendees leave with the framework to stop fighting the backlog and start controlling the terrain: prioritizing the decisive few, closing them at machine speed, and defending their investments.
AI-ROC in Action: Disclosure to Autonomous Remediation at Machine Speed
Kunal Modasiya, SVP, Product Management, Qualys
Frontier AI has cut the time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation to hours, while agentic AI and shadow AI quietly expand the attack surface inside the enterprise. This session shows how to close both gaps with actual demos: spotting exposures within minutes of disclosure, proving real world exploitability with on device evidence, autonomously remediating validated risk in safe, staged waves, and continuously monitoring AI systems themselves for risk.
Fireside Chat: Cybersecurity, Cricket, and the Mindset to Win
Sumedh Thakar, President & CEO
What can cybersecurity leaders learn from one of the world's fastest-growing sports? Join Qualys CEO Sumedh Thakar for an engaging fireside chat with Sanjay Krishnamurthi, American professional cricketer for the San Francisco Unicorns, and Liam Plunkett, World Cup champion and former San Francisco Unicorns bowler, for a conversation about leadership, resilience, teamwork, and performing under pressure.
The Exposure Economics of Frontier AI
Richard Seiersen, Chief Risk Officer, Qualys
Controlling the Terrain When the Threat Scales Faster Than You Can - Frontier AI is accelerating exploit development faster than enterprise remediation programs were built to absorb. The result is a compounding gap between how fast exploitable threats arrive and how fast organizations can close them. This session makes the economic case for two levers that change the math: Hyper-Prioritization, which reduces the attack surface to the decisive few exposures that actually matter, and Autonomous Remediation, which closes them at machine speed. While the broader AI industry is still searching for its ROI proof, this session delivers one — grounded in the same data major cyber insurers use to price risk.
The Exposure Economics of Frontier AI
Richard Seiersen, Chief Risk Officer, Qualys
Controlling the Terrain When the Threat Scales Faster Than You Can - Frontier AI is accelerating exploit development faster than enterprise remediation programs were built to absorb. The result is a compounding gap between how fast exploitable threats arrive and how fast organizations can close them. This session makes the economic case for two levers that change the math: Hyper-Prioritization, which reduces the attack surface to the decisive few exposures that actually matter, and Autonomous Remediation, which closes them at machine speed. While the broader AI industry is still searching for its ROI proof, this session delivers one — grounded in the same data major cyber insurers use to price risk.
Meet our executives
3-Steps to Achieve Autonomous Remediation
Activate Zero-Day Remediation with Operational Resilience
3-Steps to Achieve Autonomous Remediation
Scanless Detections at Disclosure Speed for AI-Driven Vulnerability Surge
How Hyper-Prioritization Finds 1<% Risks that Matter
Activate Zero-Day Remediation with Operational Resilience
Securing Agentic AI: Beyond Posture, Into Runtime
The Self-Defending Container - From Exploit Validation to Autonomous Runtime Defense
CNAPP's New Normal: Cloud Scale Threats Don't Wait. Neither Can Your Response.
Fireside Chat: Cybersecurity, Cricket, and the Mindset to Win
Customer Session: The Ripple Effect of Qualys ETM
Demo: Detection to Remediation At Machine Speed
What We Can Learn From a Billion CISA KEVs Across 10K+ Organizations
From CTEM to AI-ROC that Autonomously Remediates
Identity Programs Aren’t Broken - Just 20 Years Behind the Attacker
Chainguard + Qualys (De-Risking The Software Supply Chain)
How To Stay Audit Ready in the AI-Era
AI-Powered Apps. AI-Powered Attacks. Are You Exposed?
Scanless Detections at Disclosure Speed for AI-Driven Vulnerability Surge
How Hyper-Prioritization Finds 1<% Risks that Matter
Activate Zero-Day Remediation with Operational Resilience
From CTEM to AI-ROC that Autonomously Remediates
Securing Agentic AI: Beyond Posture, Into Runtime
AI-Powered Apps. AI-Powered Attacks. Are You Exposed?
How To Stay Audit Ready in the AI-Era
Identity Programs Aren’t Broken - Just 20 Years Behind the Attacker
CNAPP's New Normal: Cloud Scale Threats Don't Wait. Neither Can Your Response.
Customer Presentation: A ROC Case Study
The Self-Defending Container - From Exploit Validation to Autonomous Runtime Defense
Demo: Detection to Remediation At Machine Speed
Qualys is at Booth 2333 in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, throughout Black Hat USA 2026 (August 3–6, 2026).
Black Hat USA 2026 runs August 3–6, 2026. Qualys’ Business Hall presence and sessions take place across these dates.
Use the “Secure Your Meeting” form on this page to reserve a one-to-one executive meeting in our dedicated meeting rooms, or stop by Booth 2333.
Qualys hosts a Sponsored Session on Wednesday, August 5 at 11:15 a.m. and a Main Stage Session the same day at 1:30 p.m. The team is also at the CISO Summit on Tuesday, August 4.
Qualys leaders attending and presenting include President & CEO Sumedh Thakar, alongside senior leaders across products, risk, and global sales.
Qualys will show how the Enterprise TruRisk Platform helps teams prioritize, remediate, and eliminate exposures — including mitigating Mythos-driven vulnerabilities autonomously before attackers can act.
No — meeting the Qualys team at Booth 2333 and booking a 1:1 are free; you’ll need a Black Hat Business Hall pass to enter the expo.
