Stop Patching Everything!
In this live episode of "Full Tech Ahead" from Qualys’s 2026 Americas risk operations conference, host Amanda Razani interviews keynote speaker Sumedh Thakar, President & CEO of Qualys. Drawing on his 23 years at the company, Thakar emphasizes a shift from reactive vulnerability counting to proactive business risk management.
With AI accelerating both threat actor exploit speeds and the sheer volume of discovered software flaws—evidenced by nearly 1,400 Microsoft CVE findings in a single release—organizations can no longer attempt to patch everything. Thakar points out that typically less…
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