Qualys Security Conference
Explore the security impacts of the digital journey and how to build in security automation from endpoints to the data center to the cloud. Join us in person to scale your capability and meet the challenges of ever-growing attack surfaces. Hear from industry experts, learn strategies and tactics to secure your organization, and network with your peers and other Qualys experts to accelerate your career.
At the event, Qualys will unveil significant updates to the company’s Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response (VMDR) solution. The new enhancements redefine how enterprises manage cybersecurity risk giving them unprecedented insights to understand their true cyber risk, and close the gap between IT and Security. If you cannot attend in person, register for the VMDR Live Stream Announcement.
Network with your peers. Below is a sample of companies attending:
Kick off QSC on the Road on Tuesday, June 7. Meet old friends, make new ones, enjoy cocktails, and connect with Qualys experts and peers.
8:00 – 9:00 AM Breakfast |
9:00 – 9:20 AM
Security Automation for the Digital Journey Sumedh Thakar, President and CEO, Qualys |
9:20 – 9:45 AM
Leveraging the Enterprise TruRisk Platform to Address Today’s Security Challenges Nagi Prabhu, Chief Product Officer, Qualys |
9:45 – 10:00 AM Break and Q&A Bar |
10:00 AM – Noon
VMDR 2.0: Redefining Cybersecurity Risk Management with VMDR (Special Announcement) Sumedh Thakar, President and CEO, Qualys Mehul Revankar, VP Product Management and Engineering, VMDR, Qualys Brian Penn, Manager, Security Posture, Aflac Mike Ellerhorst, Cybersecurity Practice Director, ImagineX Consulting
Sumedh Thakar's bio |
Noon - 1:30 PM Lunch and Q&A Bar |
1:30 - 2:15 PM
Extending the Enterprise TruRisk Platform to Rapidly Reduce Risk with: Shailesh Athalye, Senior Vice President, Product Management, Qualys Qualys Cybersecurity Asset Management Pablo Quiroga, Director, Product Management, IT Asset Management, Qualys Qualys Patch Management Eran Livne, Director, Product Management, Endpoint Remediation, Qualys Custom Assessment and Remediation Hariom Singh, Senior Director, Compliance Solutions, Qualys
Shailesh Athalye's bio |
2:15 - 3:00 PM
Keeping the World's Largest Professional Network Secure 24/7 Justin Anderson, Head of Vulnerability Management, LinkedIn |
3:00 - 3:45 PM
Harnessing Automation to Protect a Growing IT Estate Grace Chen, Director of Vulnerability Management, First American Financial Corp. |
3:45 - 4:00 PM Break |
4:00 - 4:45 PM
Shifting Left in the Devops Lifecycle Brent Curry, Staff Security Vulnerability Research Engineer, Sony Interactive Entertainment |
4:45 - 5:15 PM
Start and Stay Secure Throughout Your Cloud and Container Journey Parag Bajaria, VP, Cloud & Container Security Solutions, Qualys |
6:00 PM Cocktail Reception |
Dive into the profound impact of the digital journey and explore how to build in security automation from the data center to the cloud. Industry experts and Qualys leaders discuss automation strategies, preview product roadmaps, listen to your challenges, and answer your questions.
Engage with Qualys’ customer-facing teams and your peers around best practices and user case studies for applying security automation to real-world challenges.
Two days of free training covers forward-looking strategies, best practices to improve effectiveness and productivity, and core and expanded product features to up-level your security program.
CIOs, CSOs and CTOs; directors and managers of network, security and cloud; developers and DevSecOps practitioners; Qualys partners and consultants; or any forward-thinking security professionals.
Qualys Security Conference will be held at Palace Hotel San Francisco.
2 New Montgomery St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
T: (415) 12-1111
Palace Hotel
Attendance at QSC is complimentary. This includes access to all general sessions, breakfast, lunch, breaks, and training.
Travel and hotel accommodations are not included with QSC or pre-conference training.
Join us to learn how to effectively secure your hybrid IT environment, streamline your security and compliance initiatives and enable digital transformation. There is no cost to attend this event.
Mike is the Cybersecurity Practice Director for ImagineX Consulting. He embraces disruption, brings calm to chaos, and enjoys delivering transformation to solve complex and challenging problems. He is a proven leader of diverse international teams successfully delivering to clients primarily in the financial services, healthcare, and retail industries.
Mike previously led the InfoSec Governance, Risk, Compliance and Data Privacy functions at Vail Resorts, ensuring compliance with PCI-DSS, SOX, and CCPA regulatory obligations. He led a small team to achieve InfoSec and Privacy objectives through efficient use of technology and strong partnerships across IT, risk functions (Internal Audit, Corporate Compliance), and business stakeholders.
Prior to Vail, Mike was a consultant with PwC for over 10 years and has significant experience in the Cybersecurity and IT Infrastructure space focusing on data center and cloud solutions.
He holds the ITIL Foundations Certification and previously held the AWS Solutions Architect certification. He is also an experienced project and program manager and held the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) from the Project Management Institute.
He completed a Global Executive MBA through the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in 2016-17, including embedded learning and professional experiences on 4 continents (Shanghai, New Delhi, Santiago, Berlin, and Durham, NC).
Pablo Quiroga is a Director of Product Management at Qualys, where he is in charge of the product definition, roadmap and strategy for the IT asset visibility & management initiatives. With over 10 years of experience in Enterprise Software and the IT industry, Pablo has helped numerous customers gain significantly better visibility to support data-powered decision that often led to multi-million-dollar savings and risk avoidance.
Hariom Singh, the Senior Director of Product Management, is chartered with leading the Qualys compliance product and solutions portfolio. Since joining Qualys in 2013, Hariom has worked in various security and compliance roles driving innovation and growth of Qualys Policy Compliance (PC) Qualys Security Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ), Qualys File Integrity Monitoring (FIM), Qualys Cloud Database Assessment, and Qualys Custom Assessment & Remediation (CAR). In addition, Hariom has played a central role in various research and development initiatives, helping customers solve complex cybersecurity challenges that include auto-discovery and assessment of middleware, applications, and databases. Prior Qualys, Hariom built his experience designing and building effective security and compliance programs for large enterprises in the healthcare, energy, financial and telecommunications industries as the Technical Lead at Creative Breakthroughs and Senior Consultant at Symantec.
As President and CEO, Sumedh leads the company’s vision, strategic direction and implementation. He joined Qualys in 2003 in engineering and grew within the company, taking various leadership roles focused on helping Qualys deliver on its platform vision. From 2014 to 2021, he served as Qualys’ Chief Product Officer, where he oversaw all things product, including engineering, development, product management, cloud operations, DevOps, and customer support. A product fanatic and engineer at heart, he is a driving force behind expanding the platform from Vulnerability Management into broader areas of security and compliance, helping customers consolidate their security stack. This includes the rollout of the game-changing VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) that continually detects and prevents risk to their systems, Multi-Vector EDR, which focuses on protecting endpoints as well as Container Security, Compliance and Web Application Security solutions. Sumedh was also instrumental in the build-up of multiple Qualys sites resulting in a global 24x7 follow-the-sun product team.
Sumedh is a long-time proponent of SaaS and cloud computing. He previously worked at Intacct, a cloud-based financial and accounting software provider. He also worked at Northwest Airlines developing complex algorithms for its yield and revenue management reservation system. Sumedh has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering with distinction from the University of Pune.
Brian Penn has over 25+ years of cyber security experience mostly in Vulnerability Management and Compliance. In his current role at Aflac, he is the Security Posture Manager helping to detect vulnerabilities in the network. Prior to joining Aflac, he spent 21 years at InterCall in a similar capacity. He holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Alabama, Birmingham in Management Information Systems and Cyber Security.
As Senior Vice President of Product Management, Shailesh leads the product management team and drives the Qualys product vision helping customers assess and improve their IT, security and compliance posture. Since joining Qualys in 2012, he has worked in various security and compliance roles driving innovative solutions, including remote endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, and SaaS security. In addition, Shailesh headed engineering, research and product management for Qualys Policy Compliance and File Integrity Monitoring, where he helped customers go beyond compliance to drive their IT GRC objectives. Before Qualys, he focused on security research for Symantec ESM and Compliance solutions. Shailesh holds a master’s in computer applications (MCA) from the Vishwakarma Institute of Technology and has various security certifications including CISA, CRISC, CISM. He is also a regular speaker at industry conferences.
Grace Chen is the Director of Vulnerability Remediation for First American Financial Corporation. She has over 25 years of experience in Information Technology working in Software Engineering, Product Management, Technical Operations, and Information Security. Prior to joining First American, Grace was with IBM for over 14 years in various roles spanning the Content Management, Business Workflow, and Data & Analytics space. In her current role, Grace’s responsibilities include overseeing the Qualys scanning program and maturing the integration of the Vulnerability Response reporting at First American.
Grace lives in Southern California with her husband, 2 kids, and 2 dogs. She holds a degree in Computer Science from Boston University.
Parag Bajaria is vice president of cloud and container security solutions at Qualys, focused on building and evangelizing cloud and container products and solutions. He has spent the last decade working in cloud security building products in various domains including data security, cloud posture management, identity security, and workload security. Previously, Parag was head of Product Management at CloudKnox, a cloud infrastructure entitlements management (CIEM) company. Parag has held product leadership roles at HyTrust, Yahoo, and Juniper Networks. Parag has an MBA from Cornell University and a master’s in electrical engineering from the University of Maine.
Mehul Revankar is a cybersecurity professional with more than 15 years of experience in Vulnerability Management, Policy Compliance and Security Operations. He leads Product Management and Vulnerability Research at Qualys for VMDR. Before joining Qualys, Mehul led the development of vulnerability and patch management products at SaltStack, and prior to that he led multiple research teams at Tenable. Mehul has a bachelor’s degree in electronics from the University of Mumbai and a master’s degree in computer engineering from George Mason University.
Brent Curry is a Staff Security Vulnerability Research Engineer with Sony Interactive Entertainment (SEI). He has over 19 years of experience in Information Technology and Cyber Security working in a range of roles including Engineer, Architect and Director. Brent started working with Qualys in 2009 while working with ESET, LLC and continued to add Qualys integrations in the several companies that followed. In his current role, he is part of a team that oversees the global vulnerability program in SIE and its affiliate studios.
Eran Livne is Senior Director, Endpoint Remediation at Qualys, leading a team tasked with helping customers improve their security posture through cross-platform vulnerability remediation. He has more than 20-years of product management and computer science experience working in diverse IT and security markets. In 2014, Eran founded mobile security company, LetMobile, acquired by Ivanti. Following the acquisition, he drove Ivanti’s enterprise security and endpoint security and management solutions. Eran holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tel Aviv University and an MBA in high-tech business administration from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
As Chief Product Officer (CPO), Nagi focuses on delivering industry-leading innovations and products that drive growth. He is responsible for all aspects of the product including engineering, development, operations, product strategy and management, and customer support.
Nagi’s career includes more than 30 years of experience building and scaling enterprise B2B products that serve organizations of all sizes in multiple industries. His focus on innovation and customers and his long-term strategic vision helped him create high growth in companies such as Icertis, Apttus (Conga), CA Technologies, and RealPage, among others. Prior to joining Qualys, Nagi was CPO at Solutionreach, a leader in patient relationship management helping transform patient-provider communication. He received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Bangalore University.