This new vulnerability management tool will help customers see what's being actively exploited in their own environment. It typically takes Qualys a year to integrate acquisitions in a meaningful way, Thakar says, but the plan is to integrate Blue Hexagon's telemetry fully within Qualys' existing user interface, rather than having to work across multiple consoles. But he is primarily focused on embedding those capabilities within Qualys' existing vulnerability management, XDR and EDR offerings.

Making the Unknown Knownīlue Hexagon uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to identity and mitigate zero-day vulnerabilities and unknown risk and will continue to offer Blue Hexagon's cloud threat detection tool to existing customers on a stand-alone basis, Thakar says.

'With our data and their technology, we feel like we can bring some comprehensive visibility and insight for customers by going through the data within the pipelines,' Qualys President and CEO Sumedh Thakar tells Information Security Media Group. The company's cloud threat detection and response offering is aimed at helping enterprises adopt public cloud securely, Qualys says (see: Sumedh Thakar on Fusing Vulnerability and Patch Management). The Silicon Valley-based cloud security vendor says its acquisition of fellow Silicon Valley firm Blue Hexagon will allow customers to detect vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited, identify advanced network threats and implement adaptive risk mitigation across all assets and applications. See Also: Live Webinar | Education Cybersecurity Best Practices: Devices, Ransomware, Budgets and Resources Qualys has purchased a startup founded by longtime Qualcomm technology leaders to better detect supply chain infections, crypto miners and unauthorized activity in the cloud. Sumedh Thakar, president and CEO, Qualys (Image: Qualys)

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