“But we see a broader application over the next few quarters over the next year or so that we will integrate different aspects of our data into the machine learning platform and we'll be able to help different applications including more targeted patching for vulnerabilities that using ML models actually bubble up to be the ones that are going to be the most exploitable, et cetera.”

In context

“Sumedh Thakar (President and CEO): Yeah. Great question. So in Blue Hexagon, they really brought to us a very strong team and a platform that understands machine learning and AI more specifically in the security space. And so when you have that kind of a platform with Qualys having the large amount of data, the 13 trillion data points, we talked about that, we index and the telemetry that we get. There's many different applications that we can see that are very relevant to security that can be sort of created from that combining platform that they have from a machine learning perspective with the data that we have. And the ability to sort of detect macro-based intrusions from our malware in the environment that you mentioned is sort of one application of that and that's sort of the first more matured application that we will be looking to integrate into our total cloud that we announced where leveraging the network data that we see in the cloud environment, we will be able to provide detection around zero to exploits, et cetera. But we see a broader application over the next few quarters over the next year or so that we will integrate different aspects of our data into the machine learning platform and we'll be able to help different applications including more targeted patching for vulnerabilities that using ML models actually bubble up to be the ones that are going to be the most exploitable, et cetera. And then just providing more insight to our customers on what to prioritize on remediation as well as help with our EDR and our XDR capabilities to bring additional machine learning capabilities into those modules as well for analyzing the data. And so, as we continue to build a more holistic platform as we really think about it is customers need to know their devices, they need to be able to mitigate risk and then they need to be able to monitor the threats and that's where the combination of asset inventory, VMDR plus branch management and then EDR plus XDR from Qualys is going to benefit from the integration of Blue Hexagon into our stack.”