Which of your prioritized vulnerabilities can attackers actually exploit in your environment, against your firewalls and EDR? Himanshu Kathpal explains agent-led safe exploit validation with Qualys TruConfirm and Agent Val. 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, this session shows how TruConfirm mimics attacker behavior with benign payloads and out-of-band callbacks to confirm exploitability without exfiltrating data, writing to disk, or persisting on the host. It covers the new Cloud Agent-based TruConfirm for vulnerabilities a network scanner cannot test, environmental checks before any exploit runs, deterministic proof for the audit trail, and chained CVE testing. Qualys reports 8 million TruConfirm validations in the past year with no production disruptions reported by customers. In a Fortune 50 trial, 62.5 million findings narrowed to about 4% with threat context and about 1% with business context before validation. The demo shows Agent Val in semi-auto mode prioritizing three CVEs that form an attack path, validating them in 3 to 5 minutes, applying mitigation, and revalidating. Speaker: Himanshu Kathpal, Vice President, Product Management, Platform and Technologies, Qualys Chapters: 0:00 Intro: the three Qualys pillars 0:44 The question CISOs keep asking 2:13 TruConfirm: safe, agent-led exploit validation 4:10 Is it safe? 8 million validations 4:54 New: Cloud Agent-based TruConfirm 6:22 Chained CVE testing 6:40 Fortune 50 results: the 1% that matters 7:56 Demo: Agent Val in semi-auto mode 11:22 Join us at ROCon Americas #BlackHat2026 #ExploitValidation #Qualys

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