Qualys Named an Overall Leader in CNAPP by KuppingerCole

We’re proud to share that Qualys has been named an Overall Leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)—achieving leadership positions in both product and market presence.

This recognition validates our commitment to delivering trusted and cutting-edge risk-driven cloud security that helps global enterprises protect what matters across hybrid environments, from code to runtime, and from containers to compliance.

“Qualys is a CNAPP market leader by virtue of its long history in vulnerability and compliance management, trusted by thousands of global enterprises to extend security visibility across hybrid cloud environments.”

— KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, 2025

A CNAPP Built on Trust, Risk Intelligence, and Real Results

While the CNAPP market is evolving rapidly, Qualys stands apart because we didn’t bolt on cloud security—we built it on a unified, proven platform that has been trusted for over two decades.

We empower security teams to:

• Complete Your Risk Operations—Unify visibility and control across hybrid, multi-cloud, and containers with frictionless, enterprise-scale automation.
• Prioritize what matters—Use TruRisk™ with multi-dimensional scoring and attack path analysis to focus on the most exploitable risks.
• Automate At Scale – Trigger Remediation of Key Misconfigurations and Vulnerabilities With Over 300+ Playbooks
• Always Be Audit-Ready—Instantly generate compliance-ready reports across cloud infrastructure—mapping risk to mandates like PCI, NIST, and DORA without the manual overhead.

Whether it’s a cloud misconfiguration, a vulnerable container image, or a hidden privilege escalation risk in a Kubernetes cluster, Qualys helps teams surface the real risk and act fast.

Why KuppingerCole Named Qualys a CNAPP Leader:

KuppingerCole’s recognition is based on a comprehensive evaluation of functional capabilities, innovation, market leadership, and customer trust. Here are a few highlights from their findings:

Unified Risk-Led Platform

“Builds on the mature Qualys Cloud Platform, unifying CNAPP with vulnerability management, compliance, and asset inventory.”

Our platform combines cloud security, asset management, compliance, and vulnerability remediation in a single, scalable solution. No need to stitch together siloed tools.

Multi-Dimensional Risk Prioritization Bridging Business and Attack Path Context

“Customers can rank by CVE as well as Qualys Detection Score, which reduces CVE noise by combining CVEs with real-time active attack context and asset criticality.”

TruRisk brings clarity to chaos — scoring vulnerabilities based on true exploitability and business impact, helping reduce noise and avoid wasted cycles.

Turn Risk Into Resilience with AI-Driven, Proactive Risk Operations.

“It exploits ML and GenAI extensively to detect and rank the risks as well as to suggest remediations.”

At Qualys, we accelerate your mean time to remediation by embedding Gen AI into our prioritization and remediation workflows—serving multiple personas, including vulnerability and incident response teams

Continuous Audit-Readiness Without Complexity

“Includes predefined templates to audit posture against a broad range of regulations such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, EU NIS2, DORA and FedRAMP.”

Continuous compliance isn’t just a checkbox—it’s a competitive advantage. Qualys helps you stay audit-ready across frameworks with policy enforcement and real-time visibility.

Built for ANY Enterprise looking to capitalize or expand its cloud operations

Unlike fragmented point solutions, TotalCloud, Qualys’ CNAPP is built for the realities of today’s enterprise:

• Hybrid workloads across VMs, containers, and serverless functions
• Cloud-native environments spanning AWS, Azure, GCP, and private clouds
• Multiple security and IT stakeholders—developers, SecOps, GRC, and beyond
• Rising regulatory pressure that demands more than just alerting—it demands proof

Flexible Licensing That Brings Resiliency To Your Cloud Security Journey

“Flexible Licensing Allows The User To Easily Adapt The Capabilities Used”

With a single SKU called Qualys Licensing Units, you get access to every single use case across CSPM, CIEM, Kubernetes & Containers, CWP, Cloud Workflow Automation (CWA), and CDR, with the ability to allocate units across different use cases. If you want to move units from hosts to containers or to different use cases, you can do it instantly without any involvement from procurement, allowing you to scale your cloud security journey exponentially.

That’s why our flexible licensing, unified asset model, and real-time risk engine deliver value not just to security teams—but to the business as a whole.

See Why Global Enterprises Trust Qualys for Cloud Risk Management

As cloud environments grow more complex, Qualys helps customers measure, prioritize, and eliminate risk—while staying compliant, resilient, and audit-ready.

• See why we won SC Awards for Best Cloud Security and Best Vulnerability Management.
• Speak to an expert about how Qualys can strengthen your cloud security program.
• Explore the KuppingerCole CNAPP Leadership Report to learn why Qualys is a recognized market leader.