{“lastseen”:”2025-11-24T22:05:08″,”description”:”\\n\\nQualys, the leader in Cyber Risk Operations, is proud to be recognized in Latio Tech\u2019s 2025 Cloud Security Market Report as a leader in both CTEM and the Cloud Security Ecosystem. This acknowledgement by Latio Tech reinforces the strength of our strategy\u2014anchored by the industry\u2019s first Risk Operations Center (ROC), which defines the future of cloud security.\\n\\nThe cloud security landscape has reached a complex state of maturity. Organizations have transitioned from simply adopting cloud infrastructure to attempting to optimize vast, sprawling environments. As the **_2025 Latio Cloud Security Report_** highlights, \u201cTeams are focusing on reducing exploitable vulnerabilities\u201d and \u201cOperationalizing large scale patching programs remains a priority.\u201d However, this ordinary world is far from simple.\\n\\nSecurity leaders find themselves navigating a sea of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, armed with an average of three or more disparate tools for their cloud security programs. The situation is compounded by economic pressure; over 65% of CISOs surveyed by Latio expect their cloud security budgets to either stagnate or decrease in the coming year. They are tasked with delivering superior results with fewer resources, a classic CISO dilemma.\\n\\nThe goal is clear: reduce risk, but the path is obscured by tool complexity and budgetary constraints.\\n\\n## The Escalation of Challenges and Consequences\\n\\nThe pursuit of a unified security solution has paradoxically created more complexity. The definition of a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) has expanded year after year, with platforms growing into unwieldy behemoths attempting to cover code, cloud, runtime, SaaS, and now AI security. This is the critical challenge: the very tools meant to bring clarity are instead generating an overwhelming volume of findings and operational paralysis.\\n\\nThe disconnect between application security and cloud security teams persists, even as their data becomes more intertwined. As Latio notes, \u201cmost organizations are both dissatisfied with the offering, and don\u2019t prefer having it a part of the solution.\u201d The risk is not just a backlog of alerts; it’s the creation of critical blind spots, the failure to identify true attack paths, and the inability to respond effectively to threats that traverse the full application lifecycle, from code to cloud.\\n\\nThe push to adopt a single \u201cbest tool\u201d often forces teams into lowest-common-denominator platforms that overlook deeper, domain-specific capabilities. Customers may use a mix of CNAPP, ASPM, identity, and workload tools\u2014because each solves a different part of the exposure problem. What ultimately matters isn\u2019t locking everything into one vendor, but unifying, correlating, and prioritizing exposures across these sources so teams can focus on the risks that truly matter.\\n\\n## The Logical Solution: A New Mandate for Risk Operations\\n\\n\\n\\nThe Latio report illuminates a path forward, recommending a strategic shift. \u201cThe future of cloud security tooling is moving beyond CNAPP as an \u2018everything security\u2019 platform. Instead, teams are focusing on application security testing, universal vulnerability management, and advanced workload protection as individual focus areas, each mapped to specific practitioners.\u201d This is the foundation of a Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) program, and it aligns directly with the philosophy Qualys has pioneered for years.\\n\\nFor Qualys, CTEM is not a pivot; it is the evolution of our core mission: unified vulnerability management, prioritization, and remediation, all powered by our TruRisk engine. We recognized that to move beyond the noise, enterprises required a new operational model. This vision is realized through our Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) platform, empowering organizations to establish their own Risk Operations Center (ROC).\\n\\nPowered by ETM, a ROC goes beyond the typical CTEM framework and provides the holistic solution needed to navigate the complexities outlined by Latio. It unifies cyber risk signals from a wide array of first-party and third-party sources, including **Qualys TotalCloud** for CNAPP and **Qualys TotalAppSec** for comprehensive application security, and correlates them into measurable risk insights. This directly addresses the market’s dissatisfaction with bundled, inadequate CNAPP and AST solutions by providing best-in-class, integrated capabilities.\\n\\n**Qualys TotalCloud** delivers a remediation-ready CNAPP that goes beyond basic posture management. It provides:\\n\\n * **Attack Path Analysis:** Expands exposure analysis to include blast radius, identity, and real-time runtime insights, moving beyond simple vulnerability lists.\\n * **Continuous Workload Protection:** Utilizes our FlexScan approach to secure both long-lived and ephemeral resources across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, eliminating the blind spots of agentless-only methods.\\n * **Cloud-Native Remediation:** Employs QFlow to automate actions, replacing manual ticket queues with scalable, context-driven workflows.\\n\\n\\n\\n**Qualys TotalAppSec** integrates seamlessly to provide the deep application context that is often missing. It combines DAST, SCA, and API scanning to offer full-stack visibility, connecting code-to-cloud traceability and enabling teams to operationalize response at scale.\\n\\nThis integrated data is funneled into the **Qualys ETM** platform, where it is transformed into a strategic asset for the ROC. The ROC doesn’t just aggregate alerts; it provides a unified, consistent view of risk across the entire hybrid attack surface. By adding business context, it empowers CISOs to articulate risk in business-aligned financial terms, enabling more strategic conversations with executives and the board.\\n\\nUltimately, the solution elevates the entire security conversation. It is no longer about agents versus agentless, or a debate over the scope of a CNAPP. The new mandate is about a business’s ability to understand, quantify, and reduce its cyber risk continuously and at scale. This is the future of cloud security, a future defined by the operational leverage of a Risk Operations Center. Qualys has not just anticipated this future; we have built the platform to deliver it today.\\n\\n## How Qualys Addresses Latio\u2019s Security Report Findings\\n\\n\\n\\nAs Latio notes in their Market Report, CNAPP Generation 1 was \u201cdefined by agentless vulnerability scanning and misconfiguration discovery.\u201d Qualys expanded this foundation years ago by pioneering a multidimensional, context-rich approach to risk with TruRisk, which correlates exposures, real-time threat intelligence, misconfigurations, exploit indicators, and asset value into a unified, business-aligned risk score. \\n\\nThis innovation gave enterprises a strategic advantage: the ability to focus on the vulnerabilities that mattered most and to reduce operational noise across every asset type\u2014hosts, containers, OT\/IoT devices, servers, and cloud services. Coupled with native attack surface management and the industry\u2019s most flexible scanning options, Qualys has helped some of the world\u2019s largest organizations uncover and eliminate blind spots that agentless-only CNAPPs routinely miss. \\n\\nOur leadership became even clearer with the introduction of TruRisk Eliminate, which brought patching and remediation into the heart of risk operations, not as an afterthought, but as an integral step in the risk lifecycle. The impact is real: in the past year alone, Qualys customers deployed over **140 million patches** , demonstrating that large-scale, operationalized remediation is not just possible, it\u2019s essential. \\n\\n\\n\\nAs enterprises shifted to containerized and cloud-native architectures, the challenges of vulnerability management expanded dramatically. The way applications were built, deployed, and operated changed, and with it, the teams, processes, and attack surface. This evolution created new demands in what many describe as Phase 2 of CNAPP: \\n\\n * **_Vulnerability Mapping:_** Development teams increasingly owned application components, requiring clearer mapping of vulnerabilities to code owners for faster remediation. \\n * **_Real-Time Detection:_** A surge in software supply chain, web application, API-driven, and zero-day attacks created the need for sophisticated, real-time detection beyond traditional scanners. \\n * **_Unified IAM:_** Cloud identity became a primary attack vector, driving the need to unify IAM context with vulnerability exposure. \\n * **_Flex Scanning:_** Organizations required flexible scanning approaches \u2014 not \u201cagent vs. agentless,\u201d but the ability to cover long-lived and ephemeral workloads without blind spots. \\n\\n\\n\\nAmid this shift, Qualys extended the same heritage of TruRisk-driven prioritization and remediation to the cloud attack surface, but modernized it to meet the realities of cloud-native scale. \\n\\nWe infused our multidimensional risk model into every layer of the cloud stack via Qualys TotalCloud, enabling security teams to bring **consistent, proactive risk reduction** across containers, Kubernetes, serverless, APIs, data, identities, and cloud services. \\n\\nThrough this evolution, one principle remained unchanged: cloud security still begins and ends with prioritizing and eliminating the vulnerabilities that matter most, whether they originate in code, containers, APIs, identities, or runtime alerts. \\n\\n## Conclusion\\n\\nIn Latio\u2019s analysis, \u201cthe future of cloud security [is] defined by hybrid cloud vulnerability management and advanced workload protection.\u201d This aligns directly with the philosophy behind CTEM. For many vendors, CTEM represents a major pivot. For Qualys, it\u2019s simply the evolution of what we\u2019ve always done best: unified vulnerability management, prioritization, and remediation powered by TruRisk. \\n\\nWe recognized early that enterprises needed a way to correlate and prioritize findings across a dramatically expanded hybrid cloud attack surface spanning code, containers, data, identities, applications, and cloud infrastructure. \\n\\nWhile the market is now racing to \u201cunify exposures,\u201d Qualys is already doing this across first-party, cloud-native, and third-party sources, giving customers a unified, consistent view of risk regardless of which tools they choose for AppSec, CNAPP, or scanning. \\n\\nFinally, with agentic AI delivered through the Qualys Cyber Risk Marketplace, the ROC elevates CTEM even further by automating triage, investigation, reporting, and workflow orchestration. This gives CISOs real operational leverage: teams spend less time chasing alerts and more time reducing risk. \\n\\nThis evolution elevates the CTEM conversation. It\u2019s no longer about agents, scanners, or point capabilities. 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