Qualys

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Qualys, Inc.
Company type Public
IndustryCyberSecurity Company Network Security
IT Security
Information Security
Founded1999;25 years ago (1999)
Founders
Headquarters
Foster City, California
,
U.S.
Area served
Global
Key people
Sumedh Thakar, President and CEO [1]
Services
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$489.7 million (2022) [2]
Increase2.svgUS$130.5 million (2022) [2]
Increase2.svgUS$108 million (2022) [2]
Total assets Decrease2.svgUS$700.9 million (2022) [2]
Total equity Decrease2.svgUS$289.1 million (2022) [2]
Number of employees
Increase2.svg 2,143 [2]
Website qualys.com

Qualys, Inc. is an American technology firm based in Foster City, California, specializing in cloud security, compliance and related services. [3]

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Qualys has over 10,300 customers in more than 130 countries, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100. [4] The company has strategic partnerships with major managed services providers and consulting organizations including BT, Dell SecureWorks, Fujitsu, IBM, NTT, Symantec, Verizon, and Wipro. [5]

History

Qualys has been described as "one of the earliest software-as-a-service security vendors." [6]

Philippe Courtot first invested in the company in 1999. He became CEO and board chair in 2001. In the announcement of the second round of financing, Courtot described Qualys as addressing a "mounting need for automatic detection of network vulnerabilities." [7] [8]

The company launched QualysGuard in 2000, making Qualys one of the first entrants in the vulnerability management market. [9] This software could automatically scan corporate local area networks (LANs) for vulnerabilities and search for an available patch. The company subsequently added compliance, malware detection, and web application scanning to its platform. [10] [11]

Qualys went public on the Nasdaq under the stock ticker QLYS on September 28, 2012, raising net proceeds of $87.5 million. [3] [12]

Qualys then launched its Cloud Platform and lightweight cloud agent to continuously assess the security and compliance of organizations' global IT infrastructure and applications. The new Cloud Platform helped organizations assess and address the security and compliance of their IT assets in real-time, whether on-premises, cloud-based or mobile. [13] [14] [15]

Products

Qualys provides cloud-based security and compliance solutions for businesses. As of March 2023, several categories of applications are listed on Qualys.com including asset management, vulnerability management, IT security, compliance, cloud-native Security, and web app security. [16]

Awards

Qualys won two Pwnie Awards in 2021, in the categories of "Best Privilege Escalation Bug" and "Most Under-Hyped Research". [17] [18] [19]

Qualys honored by SC Media as the winner for Best Vulnerability Management Solution in its 2020 Trust Awards. [20]

Qualys received 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice Award for Vulnerability Assessment. [21]

In 2017 Frost & Sullivan recognized Qualys with 2017 Global Vulnerability Management Market Leadership Award. [22]

Throughout its history Qualys has received a number of other awards. [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [ vague ]

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