Security programs are drowning in data—but still missing real risk. At ROCon EMEA, Vivek Bhandari and Himanshu Kathpal deliver a fast-paced innovation showcase, highlighting how Qualys is evolving cyber risk management for an AI-driven threat landscape. Due to time constraints, the session focuses primarily on one critical and often overlooked area: identity. The reality is stark. Identity is now at the center of modern breaches, with credential abuse involved in the majority of attacks and identity-related exposures driving some of the highest-impact incidents across enterprises today. Yet most identity programs remain fragmented—managed in silos, disconnected from vulnerability data, and lacking the context needed to understand real risk. This session introduces a unified approach through ETM Identity, bringing together identity, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and asset context into a single risk model. By correlating identities with the systems they can access, organizations can uncover “toxic combinations” that traditional security tools often miss. The discussion also highlights a broader shift in cybersecurity: moving from isolated signals to unified risk scoring. By combining identity risk, asset exposure, and business context into a single TruRisk score, teams can prioritize what actually matters—without relying on manual workflows or disconnected tools. The takeaway: identity is no longer a separate discipline. It’s a core part of cyber risk—and without it, your risk model is incomplete. Recorded live at ROCon EMEA. Start building your Risk Operations Center today: https://www.qualys.com/apps/enterprise-trurisk-management Stay up to date on upcoming events: https://www.qualys.com/company/events Watch more sessions from ROCon EMEA: https://www.qualys.com/rocon/2026/emea

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