August 5, 2025
5 min read
Melania Watson
Qualys launches Agentic AI agents for autonomous cyber risk management, delivering real-time insights and faster remediation to cut costs and threats.
Qualys has launched new Agentic AI capabilities on its platform, enhancing autonomous risk management through a marketplace of AI agents designed to streamline cyber risk operations for organizations.
These new Cyber Risk AI Agents provide real-time risk insights across various attack surfaces and prioritize exposures based on their business impact. The agents operate autonomously to remediate issues at scale, supporting Risk Operations Centres (ROCs) and helping organizations reduce both risk and operational costs. As cyber threats become more complex and attack surfaces expand, traditional methods often fall short. Qualys' self-orchestrating AI agents aim to overcome manual bottlenecks that can leave security teams with persistent exposures.
"Cybersecurity has never been able to keep pace with the volume of enterprise exposures due to human-scale prioritisation and remediation. Integrating Agentic AI into the Qualys platform marks a major leap - from reactive response to real-time risk reduction. With autonomous remediation and intelligent prioritisation, this type of innovation enables faster risk reduction, more efficient resource usage, and greater accuracy in recommended actions. This evolution shifts security teams from tactical responders to strategic agentic AI orchestrators, bringing us closer to a future of self-healing cybersecurity."
— Tyler Shields, Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Embedded AI for Risk-Centric Automation
The AI capabilities are integrated into Qualys' Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM), a key component of the company’s ROC framework. ETM consolidates exposures to help organizations measure, communicate, and reduce cyber risk in alignment with business value. The introduction of Agentic AI brings pre-built AI agents that automate threat prioritization and remediation, tailored to an organization's specific risk appetite and operational context. The Cyber Risk Assistant, a prompt-based interface, aids security teams in navigating risk management processes, offering context-aware insights across millions of exposures and facilitating autonomous operations within risk workflows.Capabilities of the AI Agents
The Qualys marketplace features ready-to-use AI agents with several key functionalities:- Continuous risk insights: AI agents continuously discover external attack surfaces, assess risk in the context of emerging industry threats, and prioritize risks based on each organization’s unique assets and environment.
- Adaptive remediation: Agents such as the Microsoft Patch Tuesday Lifecycle Agent identify and correlate prioritized vulnerabilities with remediation options, aiming to reduce both cost and time to address security flaws. These agents focus on lowering the mean time to remediation (MTTR) to counter rapid exploitation by threat actors.
- Customization: Security teams can design custom, no-code AI agents to meet specific business needs and risk processes. These agents can be trained and reused to support scalable, repeatable automation within unique operational contexts.
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"Qualys Agentic AI, embedded into Enterprise TruRisk Management, is transforming how organisations manage cyber risk and powering a smarter, more agile Risk Operations Centre. It's ushering in a new era where CISOs can augment their security teams with intelligent AI agents that perform autonomous analysis and take decisive, high-impact actions to reduce risk faster, more strategically, and with greater efficiency."
— Sumedh Thakar, President and CEO, Qualys
Operational Focus
Qualys highlights that the new Agentic AI functions automate and streamline various stages of risk reduction, improving cost efficiency and effectiveness for security operations teams. These AI-driven solutions address industry-wide challenges in risk management stemming from complex infrastructure and proliferating cyber threats, with a focus on aligning remediation efforts with business-critical priorities.Originally published at SecurityBrief Australia on Mon, 04 Aug 2025.