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Tech Edge hosted a fireside chat on March 25 at RSA Conference 2026 in San Francisco with Sumedh Thakar, Chief Executive Officer at Qualys, Inc. (Nasdaq: QLYS). The in-person interview was joined by Editor-in-Chief John Jannarone and they discussed why security technology only makes a difference when it impacts the risk exposure of an organization, security for open source and what makes it critical for businesses, among other topics.
About Sumedh Thakar
As a cybersecurity visionary, Sumedh is passionate about making the world’s digital journey safer. His education and early experiences as a coder led him to Qualys, where he rose from engineer to president and CEO. He joined Qualys in 2003, shortly after the company’s founding and in an era when organizations started using the cloud but didn’t know what to call it. His contributions and leadership helped propel Qualys to its current success in cybersecurity. Sumedh became president and CEO in 2021.
In 2019, he was named president, and prior to that, he was chief product officer, driving the company’s vision of making enterprise security more efficient and disrupting the VM space with integrated capabilities like patch management and cybersecurity asset management. A “product fanatic and engineer at heart,” Sumedh was instrumental in dramatically expanding the original Qualys platform’s scope, integrations, and automations.
He also scaled the company’s engineering talent internationally with a global 24×7 follow-the-sun product team. He is a coinventor of five U.S. patents for cybersecurity technology in Qualys offerings. Previously, Sumedh was an engineer at Intacct, an early cloud-based financial and accounting software provider. He also worked at Northwest Airlines developing complex algorithms for its yield and revenue management reservation system.
He has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering with distinction from Savitribai Phule Pune University.
About Qualys
Qualys, Inc. (Nasdaq: QLYS) is a leading provider of disruptive cloud-based Security, Compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and consolidate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings.
The Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices.
Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations.
For more information, please visit www.qualys.com.
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