Qualys expands mROC Alliance partner program

Cyber-risk management company Qualys has expanded its global risk management operations centre (mROC) Alliance program to include partners across every major attack surface.

The partners span attack surfaces including mobile, operational and IoT technology as well as identity management. Additions to the alliance include Claroty, Lookout, NowSecure, Nozomi Networks and Okta.

Qualys will be able to use the partnerships to bring telemetry covering some of the least measured parts of the enterprise to its Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management platform, to provide customers with a holistic view of their cyber risk across their environments.

Telemetry from Lookout and NowSecure will provide visibility into mobile device security posture, OS vulnerabilities, and application-level risk, while partnerships with Claroty and Nozomi Networks will enable the platform to integrate passive asset discovery and vulnerability data for OT and IoT technologies such as industrial control systems, medical devices and building management systems.

Qualys has meanwhile announced two partner authorisation tracks designed to give customers a verified path to standing up a risk operations centre to better defend against AI-discovered vulnerabilities and AI-enabled adversaries.

The alliance now certifies partners across three roles — advisors, delivery and implementation partners — as well as the existing mROC Partner status, which includes organisations certified to run the customer’s risk operations centre as a managed service on Qualys’s platform.

Qualys VP of Global Channels and Strategic Alliances Cade Stephens said the development is aimed at responding to the impact AI-enabled threats are having on the cybersecurity sector.

“PHP2Shell was a wake-up call for the industry. The vulnerability existed for years, but AI dramatically changed the economics of discovery and exploitation, enabling adversaries to weaponise exposures at a speed that far exceeds traditional response cycles,” he said. “Our expanded Global mROC Alliance brings together the power of the Qualys platform, strategic technology alliance partners and a global ecosystem of highly trained Risk Operations Centre experts to help customers operationalise cyber-risk management at scale and outpace threats in the age of AI.”

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