{"id":100172,"date":"2025-07-23T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/?p=100172"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:16:25","slug":"qualys-report-reveals-gaps-in-cyber-risk-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/qualys-report-reveals-gaps-in-cyber-risk-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualys Report Reveals Gaps in Cyber Risk Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qualys\">Qualys<\/a> has revealed key findings from its 2025 State of Cyber-risk Assessment report, highlighting major gaps in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/category\/emerging-technologies\/cybersecurity\/\">cybersecurity<\/a> risk management despite rising investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research, conducted by Dark Reading and commissioned by Qualys, shows that most organizations still struggle with aligning cyber risk programs to business priorities. While 49% of surveyed organizations report having a formal cyber risk management program, only 18% use integrated risk scenarios that quantify business impact, including insurance risk transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report notes that 30% align risk programs with business objectives, while 43% of programs are less than two years old. An additional 19% are still in the planning stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cybersecurity investments are growing, but 71% of organizations believe cyber risk levels are either increasing or unchanged:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>51% report increasing cyber risk exposure<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>20% say risk remains steady<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only 6% have seen a decrease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Asset visibility remains a key challenge. Although 83% perform regular inventories, only 13% do so continuously. Furthermore, 47% rely on manual processes, and 41% cite incomplete inventories as a top barrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Risk prioritization also lacks maturity. Only 68% use integrated risk scoring methods, while 19% still rely solely on CVSS scores. Just 18% update asset risk profiles monthly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While 90% report cyber-risk findings to the board, only 14% include financial quantification, and just 22% involve finance teams. Business stakeholders are included less than half the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayuresh Ektare, Vice President of Product Management at Qualys, stated that current approaches fail to reduce cyber risk effectively. He emphasized adopting a Risk Operations Center (ROC) model that integrates vulnerability, asset, and threat data for a unified view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report recommends organizations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Understand and prioritize risks based on business-critical assets<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use diverse risk signals beyond vulnerability scans<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Transition from reactive incident response to proactive risk reduction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Ektare added that integrating business-impacting risk scenarios will lead to more effective board-level communication and better-informed decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualys has revealed key findings from its 2025 State of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":100186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9619],"tags":[1051],"contributor":[9732],"class_list":["post-100172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-vendors","contributor-news-desk"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/qualys-43.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Lubna","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/lubna\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100173,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100172\/revisions\/100173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100172"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=100172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}