Qualys Named a Finalist for Three SC Magazine Europe Awards Including Information Security Vendor of the Year

London, United Kingdom - February 15, 2012 - Qualys®, Inc.,the leading provider of information security and compliance management cloud solutions, today announced that it has been shortlisted in three categories of this year’s SC Magazine Europe Awards programme:

• Best SME Security Solution for QualysGuard Express
• Information Security Product of the Year for QualysGuard IT Security and Compliance Suite
• Information Security Vendor of the Year

“This year saw a record number of entries to the SC awards and led to some interesting discussions among the judges and some major brands being shortlisted,” said Paul Fisher, editor of SC Magazine Europe. “Our congratulations go to those who have been nominated for this year’s awards and for those with multiple entries such as Qualys, this demonstrates real leadership in the information security sector.”

“Being recognized by readers of SC Magazine and the judging panel in these categories is an honour,” said Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO for Qualys. “We would like to thank our customers and partners in Europe for their continuing support to help us further expand the reach of our cloud platform and suite of security and compliance offerings.”

Featured on the SC website, the shortlist details the 25 awards, which will be announced at SC Magazine’s gala dinner held at the London Hilton on 24 April 2012.

About QualysGuard Cloud Platform
Qualys’ flagship product, QualysGuard Cloud Platform and its integrated suite of security and compliance applications provides organisations of all sizes with a global view of their security and compliance postures, while drastically reducing total cost of ownership. The QualysGuard applications, including vulnerability management, policy compliance, web application scanning, malware detection and Qualys SECURE service for security testing of web sites, are used today by more than 5,500 organizations in 85 countries and perform more than 500 million IP audits per year.

About SC Magazine
SC Magazine is a market-leading industry title writing about IT and information security, covering technology, regulation and compliance, best practise and current issues. The bi-monthly print edition has a select circulation of around 7,000 top-level security practitioners while the daily newswire is sent to around 17,000 subscribers. The website has up–to-date industry news, articles and opinions and has around 90,000 page views a month and 50,000 unique users. The SC Magazine awards are announced at an annual event held in April after several months of nomination, judging and shortlisting. www.scmagazineuk.com

About Qualys

Qualys, Inc. is the pioneer and leading provider of information security and compliance cloud solutions with 5,500+ customers in 85 countries, including 51 of the Forbes Global 100. The QualysGuard Cloud Platform and integrated suite of applications helps businesses simplify security operations and lower the cost of compliance by delivering critical security intelligence on demand and automating the full spectrum of auditing, compliance and protection for IT systems and web applications. Founded in 1999, Qualys has established strategic partnerships with leading managed service providers and consulting organizations including BT, Dell SecureWorks, Fujitsu, IBM, NTT, Symantec, Verizon, and Wipro. The company is also a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).

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