As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated and regulatory pressures intensify, security leaders face growing pressure not only to detect vulnerabilities but also to actively manage and communicate risk in real-time.The Risk Operations Center (ROC) is emerging as the strategic nerve center for proactive, data-driven risk reduction. However, operationalizing the ROC at scale means going beyond dashboards and alerts; it requires an intelligent, automated approach that unifies security signals, business context, and response workflows. In this session, we'll explore how Qualys ETM, powered by Agentic Al, enables organizations to shift from reactive security postures to continuous, measurable risk mitigation. Attendees will learn how Agentic Al autonomously correlates threat intelligence, asset criticality, and exploitability data to cut through the noise and spotlight the risks that truly matter.

Whether you're a CISO defining your strategic roadmap or a security leader optimizing existing processes, this session will deliver actionable insights on how to:

- Transform vulnerability data into prioritized, business-aligned risk signals- Automate triage and remediation at scale with context-aware playbooks- Build a unified risk narrative for executives and boards

“Both strategy and execution at their core involve making choices under uncertainty, competition, and constraints.” - Roger Martin

Hindsight is always 20/20 after major cyber incidents. But what if you could peer into the future—imperfectly, incompletely, yet meaningfully? To do so, you must stretch your risk management mindset like a seasoned yogi. Embrace uncertainty without confusing it with unknowability. From this foundation, you can discern the realm of plausible loss scenarios and, critically, translate that understanding into measurable, actionable steps. This is the practice of Risk Yoga: flexing strategic insight into practical risk-driven action.

Firewalls stop packets, not privilege abuse. With attackers bypassing perimeters and diving straight into Active Directory and Entra ID, it's time to make identity posture the new risk surface. In this session, discover a fresh way to strengthen your Risk Operations Center against today’s identity-driven threats. Key Takeaways Why identity is the new attack surface and how it's being exploited Learn how to unify visibility across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem identities See how to map identity risks to real-world threats through deep correlation across assets, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities. Walk away with actionable steps to enforce least-privilege, reduce access risk, and boost compliance.

Security finds the risks. IT gets stuck fixing them. The result? Security teams are buried in findings, IT teams are drowning in tickets, and progress on reducing exposure is too slow.Qualys Eliminate closes that gap. It connects detection to action with automated, prioritized remediation—so Security can assign the right fixes to IT, with the proper context, at the right time.

The payoff:

• Clear, streamlined handoffs from Security to IT.

• Fixing what matters first instead of chasing endless lists.

• Automated workflows that cut exposure windows and keep both teams in sync.

Because spotting risks doesn't make you safer, eliminating them does.

Cloud environments drive innovation, agility, and growth; however, every advance brings new security challenges, ranging from misconfigurations and API exposures to the pitfalls of the shared responsibility model. As enterprises rapidly migrate workloads and modern apps to the cloud, the complexity of managing risk and compliance increases, and traditional siloed security strategies can't keep pace. Competitors may claim CNAPP coverage, but without deep application security integration and true code-to-cloud visibility, critical risks remain hidden

This session explores blind spots in multi-cloud and app security, exposes today's fragmented defenses, and shows how Qualys helps DevSecOps, CloudSecOps, and security leaders stop attack paths early—at the code and app layer—before they become costly incidents.

Key Takeaways — What You'll Learn:

• How the Qualys Risk Operations Center for Cloud prioritizes vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, exposures, and exploitability to surface truly critical risks across cloud and app layers.

• Why Attack Path analysis illuminates hidden lateral movement and privilege escalation routes—and how to disrupt them at the source.

• How code-to-cloud tracing and DevSecOps integrations ensure app and cloud security controls align with modern CI/CD pipelines, fixing risks in-code.

• How FlexScan and Application Security deliver continuous discovery and protection for multi-cloud, web apps, and APls with unified visibility.

• How QFlow automation streamlines remediation and compliance processes to reduce tool sprawl and operational friction.

Stop guessing. Start securing. Gain a precise roadmap to cloud and app-native maturity, built on the pillars of visibility, automation, and intelligence that protect and power your digital future.

Organizations today are trapped in a perpetual game of "risk whack-a-mole," chasing thousands of raw vulnerability counts without a clear, strategic priority. This session deconstructs the modern threat landscape to reveal a reality starkly different from what traditional metrics suggest. We will expose how the common reliance on conventional approaches is not just irrelevant but dangerously misleading, as it causes security teams to overlook weaponized vulnerabilities that are actively fueling massive ransomware campaigns.

This keynote delves into the modern attacker's playbook. It exposes the industrialized nature of modern attacks, where an efficient ecosystem iterates on known weaknesses in automated campaigns rather than relying on novel innovation. Furthermore, we will reframe ransomware not as an encryption problem but as a data breach crisis characterized by multi-faceted extortion schemes that now include weaponizing regulatory compliance. This session moves beyond theory to expose the attacker's real playbook, sharing a framework that translates real risk telemetry into quantifiable business risk.

CISOs are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that cybersecurity is not just a cost center, but a strategic enabler of business resilience and growth. Yet too often, security leaders struggle to connect with their CFOs and other executives in terms that resonate. This session offers a practical playbook for aligning cybersecurity strategy with financial priorities. Attendees will learn how to translate technical risk into business value, frame security investments in terms of ROI and cost avoidance and communicate with metrics that matter to the boardroom. Through proven approaches and real-world examples, participants will gain the tools to build stronger partnerships with CFOs, secure executive buy-in, and position cybersecurity as a driver of organizational success

Vulnerability management is evolving. It's no longer just about finding and patching flaws, but about understanding and reducing risk across your entire attack surface. With VMDR and Cyber Security Asset Management, you've already laid the groundwork, giving teams visibility, control, and scalable prioritization across complex environments. The Qualys Risk Operations Center (ROC) means moving past whack-a-mole scans and into strategic exposure management, driven by business impact and financial relevance. Leveraging prompt-driven Cyber Risk Agents, Qualys helps security teams navigate, analyze, and act on exposure data with context, speed, and accountability, transforming fragmented data into clear action.

In this session, you'll see how you can elevate your current VMDR and Cybersecurity Asset Management deployment and build an effective ROC to orchestrate unified risk insights and drive real-time, coordinated response at scale. We'll also explore how Al supercharges this journey, helping your teams work faster, smarter, and with greater impact.