Qualys Security Conference

Qualys Security Conference

Qualys Security Conference

De-risk Your Business

With so many disparate tools to measure and manage risk these days, it’s harder than ever to quantify the impact of cyber risk on your businesses. Join us in person to find out how today’s security leaders are evolving from enumerating risk to eliminating it. You’ll hear from industry-leading thought leaders, Qualys customers, and product experts on the latest strategies and tactics being used to measure, communicate, and eliminate cyber risk to drive better business outcomes.

Keynote Speakers

Sumedh Thakar
President and CEO, Qualys

Featured Speakers

Shailesh Athalye
Senior Vice President, Product Management, Qualys

Agenda

Coming Soon

Conference Highlights

Go beyond enumerating risk.

Simply calculating the vulnerabilities that cyber risk poses to your business is no longer enough. See the latest strategies and innovations leading security experts are implementing to quantify the impact of cyber risk on their businesses so they can focus on the vulnerabilities that matter most.

Get inspired.

Engage with Qualys’ customer-facing teams and your peers around best practices and user case studies for applying security automation to real-world challenges.

Sharpen your expertise.

Two day of free training covers forward-looking strategies, best practices to improve effectiveness and productivity, and core and expanded product features to up-level your security program.

Who Should Attend

CIOs, CSOs and CTOs; directors and managers of network, security and cloud; developers and DevSecOps practitioners; Qualys partners and consultants; or any forward-thinking security professionals.

Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina
San Diego, California, USA

Qualys Security Conference will be held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina.

1380 Harbor Island Drive,
San Diego, California, USA, 92101
T: +1 619-291-2900
Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina - San Diego, California, USA


Conference Pricing

Attendance at QSC is complimentary. This includes access to all general sessions, breakfast, lunch, breaks, and training.

Travel and hotel accommodations are not included with QSC or pre-conference training.

Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina

Register Today.

Join us to learn how to effectively secure your hybrid IT environment, streamline your security and compliance initiatives and enable digital transformation. There is no cost to attend this event.

Sumedh Thakar

Sumedh Thakar

President and CEO, Qualys

As President and CEO, Sumedh leads the company’s vision, strategic direction and implementation. He joined Qualys in 2003 in engineering and grew within the company, taking various leadership roles focused on helping Qualys deliver on its platform vision. From 2014 to 2021, he served as Qualys’ Chief Product Officer, where he oversaw all things product, including engineering, development, product management, cloud operations, DevOps, and customer support. A product fanatic and engineer at heart, he is a driving force behind expanding the platform from Vulnerability Management into broader areas of security and compliance, helping customers consolidate their security stack. This includes the rollout of the game-changing VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) that continually detects and prevents risk to their systems, Multi-Vector EDR, which focuses on protecting endpoints as well as Container Security, Compliance and Web Application Security solutions. Sumedh was also instrumental in the build-up of multiple Qualys sites resulting in a global 24x7 follow-the-sun product team.

Sumedh is a long-time proponent of SaaS and cloud computing. He previously worked at Intacct, a cloud-based financial and accounting software provider. He also worked at Northwest Airlines developing complex algorithms for its yield and revenue management reservation system. Sumedh has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering with distinction from the University of Pune.

Shailesh Athalye

Shailesh Athalye

Senior Vice President, Product Management, Qualys Inc.

As Senior Vice President of Product Management, Shailesh leads the product management team and drives the Qualys product vision helping customers assess and improve their IT, security and compliance posture. Since joining Qualys in 2012, he has worked in various security and compliance roles driving innovative solutions, including remote endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, and SaaS security. In addition, Shailesh headed engineering, research and product management for Qualys Policy Compliance and File Integrity Monitoring, where he helped customers go beyond compliance to drive their IT GRC objectives. Before Qualys, he focused on security research for Symantec ESM and Compliance solutions. Shailesh holds a master’s in computer applications (MCA) from the Vishwakarma Institute of Technology and has various security certifications including CISA, CRISC, CISM. He is also a regular speaker at industry conferences.