Qualys CEO Sumedh Thakar sat down with ITSPmagazine and Studio C60 at Black Hat USA 2026 to talk about why the fundamentals of cybersecurity have not changed, even as the speed of the game has. What he covers: • Why inventory, assessment, prioritization, and remediation are still the core questions, from virtualization to cloud to AI to quantum • "Dashboard tourism" and why visibility means nothing if you cannot fix what you find • The three pillars for operating at AI speed: AI-speed detection, hyper-prioritization, and autonomous remediation • Why "hire more people" is not an answer when attackers are using frontier models, and how autonomous remediation changes the math • How a 450,000-employee enterprise holds exposure to hours instead of weeks, proof that autonomous remediation is already here • His advice to CISOs: lead as a business partner focused on risk, not the latest technology He also gets into InstaScan and scanless scanning, which surfaces findings within an hour of vendor disclosure. Recorded at Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas. Interview by ITSPmagazine and Studio C60. Learn more: InstaScan: https://www.qualys.com/company/newsroom/news-releases/usa/qualys-launches-instascan-to-detect-vulnerabilities-within-minutes-of-disclosure Agent Insta and scanless detection: https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2026/08/03/instascan-agent-insta-scanless-detection Enterprise TruRisk Management: https://www.qualys.com/apps/enterprise-trurisk-management ROCon Americas 2026 (Austin): https://www.qualys.com/rocon/2026/americas See how the Risk Operations Center unifies detection, prioritization, and remediation on one platform: https://www.qualys.com/solutions/risk-operations-center

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