Bringing the Power of Agentic AI for Identity Risk, Adaptive Threat Prioritization, and Exposure Exploitability Validation 

Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Management (ETM) extends the power of risk operations with agentic AI — Introducing ETM Identity, TruLens for industry-based threat prioritization, and TruConfirm exposure exploitability validation to accelerate your remediation.

Every year at our yearly conference, now ROCon, I connect with security professionals on the front lines. A common theme in our conversations is the sheer speed of change. Having navigated cloud adoption, we now confront a new era with Large Language Models (LLMs) powering AI evolution. While these advancements create immense value, they also introduce unprecedented complexity to the security landscape.

We know that not every vulnerability matters, given that less than 1% have weaponized exploit code, but identifying that critical 1% is the challenge. The old way of chasing every alert and vulnerability from multiple dashboards is an unwinnable battle. This problem is now amplified by AI. Malicious actors are weaponizing these tools to discover coding errors, increase phishing success rates, and democratize malware development. We are managing risk where the adversary has an AI-powered advantage.

Closing the Gap

Security budgets are not increasing to match this new scale of threats. To keep pace, security teams must be smarter, not just busier—deploying AI, identity security, and cutting-edge proactive, predictive technologies in defense. Risk Surface Management is the new mandate, aligning defensive work with business priorities.

That’s why I’m excited to announce that at ROCon 2025, Qualys is unveiling identity risks, threat-driven prioritization, and exposure exploitability validation capabilities with our ETM Identity, TruLens, and TruConfirm features in Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM).

Meet the AI-Powered Risk Operations Center (ROC)

Traditional methods are no longer adequate. The Risk Operations Center (ROC), an operationalized framework for unifying teams, workflows, and technology to proactively manage cyber risk, is the future of cyber risk management. Powering the ROC is Qualys ETM, providing foundational data, aligning with business goals, and automating remediation.

We recently announced a transformative evolution of this framework: the AI-powered ROC. By integrating Agentic AI capabilities, we are fundamentally changing cyber defense dynamics. Imagine having a hyper-intelligent security expert working for you 24/7, understanding your unique environment. Agentic AI uses rich data from our platform to continuously scan for exposures, prioritize the real risks, and automatically carry out the best remediation action. Cyber Risk Agents then use this data to act as your digital workforce across several key use cases, or your own custom use case.

Taking the ROC to the Next Level

Now, we’re taking it to the next level. At ROCon 2025, I’ll be sharing the latest innovations that expand the power of Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) with identity security, threat-driven prioritization, and exploit validation.

With these advancements, ETM now unifies ETM Identity (identity security posture management), TruLens (industry threat–based prioritization), and TruConfirm (automated exploitability validation of exposures) to transform fragmented, multi-vendor exposures into measurable, provable risk reduction.

Qualys ETM Identity

The proliferation of new technologies has resulted in a sprawl of identities across SaaS, cloud, and services. In this landscape, it’s not surprising that identity is where most attacks start, and yet most tools manage identity risk and asset risk separately by adding yet more dashboards for the security team to monitor. Qualys ETM Identity brings in identity security into your Risk Operations Center: one place to see who has access to what, spot misconfigurations and toxic privileges across AD, Entra ID, Okta, and other IdPs/IDaaS, map attack paths & domain trusts, and correlate with asset context and turn it all into a single TruRisk score to prioritize the most exploitable identity risks. Then we actually fix it with risk response orchestration, including policy controls, patching, mitigation, or isolation, out-of‑the-box automation scripts, and more so you can reduce identity-driven attack surface ‑without bolting on another silo.

Moreover, your agentic AI coworker, Agent Grant, working alongside your team, can spot toxic privilege chains and AD to cloud attack paths, turn priorities from Identity TruRisk™ into action, drive the next-best fix and close the loop with automated remediations (open tickets, enforce MFA, de-privilege or quarantine), and auto-updated Identity TruRisk™.

Qualys TruLens

Security leaders are seeking industry-specific guidance, tailored to their organization’s business context that narrows the threats that matter most. TruLens mobilizes data from across the ETM platform, aggregating and analyzing industry-specific signals from internal assets, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and emerging external threats to deliver a unified view of the enterprise threat landscape. We are also making this actionable, enterprise-specific intelligence available on the go through the first Qualys mobile application, available in the Apple App and Google Play stores.

Qualys TruConfirm

Teams responsible for managing threat exposures are constantly struggling with a way to prioritize threats that can have a real, quantifiable impact on their organization. TruConfirm accelerates cyber risk management by validating the real-world exploitability of exposures. Instead of relying on theoretical scores, it delivers a way to safely confirm which exposures can be actually exploited by an attacker. This precision approach empowers security teams to focus resources on proven threats, cut remediation workloads, and take immediate action with clear, actionable intelligence. TruConfirm accelerates prioritization, reduces mean time to remediate (MTTR), and maximizes security team efficiency. Integrated into the Qualys ETM ecosystem, it streamlines processes, eliminates noise, and strengthens overall organizational defenses.

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Get additional details about Enterprise TruRisk Management and the latest advancements.

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Let’s Advance Security—Together

These aren’t just tools for the top of the org chart—they’re for every one of us who cares about cyber risk. The future of cybersecurity is a team effort, and the ROC is its playbook. I know the challenges are growing, but with the right strategies and innovation, there’s real reason to be optimistic.

ROCon is where all security professionals can come together, learn, and shape what’s next. I hope to see you at this year’s event, but if you can’t make it, look for recordings of the sessions on our YouTube channel in the week following the event.