Frontier AI is finding vulnerabilities faster than teams can patch them, and attackers are weaponizing flaws within hours. Qualys VP Vivek Bhandari lays out three steps to autonomous remediation. Join us at ROCon Americas, October 13-15 in Austin, Texas: https://www.qualys.com/rocon/2026/americas Try Qualys ETM free for 30 days: https://www.qualys.com/free-trial-new/enterprise-trurisk-management Recorded at Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas, this session explains why the old cycle of scan, ticket, and wait no longer works, and how a Risk Operations Center built on Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) closes the gap. The three steps are AI-speed detection with InstaScan and Agent Insta, hyper-prioritization with TruConfirm and Agent Val, and zero-day remediation with TruRisk Eliminate, which covers patching plus mitigation, uninstall, fix, and isolation. What you will learn: Less than 1% of identified vulnerabilities are ever weaponized, so trying to fix everything wastes cycles. Vulnerability exploitation is now the top initial access vector in the 2026 Verizon DBIR, at 31% of breaches. In one customer example, 63 million findings narrowed to the roughly 0.1% that attackers could actually exploit through existing controls, with safe exploit validation making the final cut. Speaker: Vivek Bhandari, Vice President, Product GTM and Marketing Strategies, Qualys Chapters: 0:00 Welcome to Black Hat 2026 0:44 Frontier AI and the weaponization of vulnerabilities 2:30 The vulnerability surge and the Patch Tuesday spike 3:18 Why less than 1% of vulnerabilities matter 4:26 Verizon DBIR: exploitation is the top initial access vector 5:19 Remediation at machine speed and the AI-native ROC 6:35 Three steps to autonomous remediation 9:20 Step 1: InstaScan and AI-speed detection 10:34 Step 2: The hyper-prioritization funnel 12:44 Step 3: TruRisk Eliminate and zero-day remediation 14:34 Code to cloud coverage on one platform 16:21 Join us at ROCon Americas #BlackHat2026 #Qualys #AutonomousRemediation

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