Company News: November 2008 Archives

Qualys has been chosen as one of Deloitte's 2008 Technology Fast 500, a ranking of today's fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in North America. This industry distinction comes just several weeks after the company's most recent achievement as a Deloitte Silicon Valley Fast 50 where Qualys ranked #37 by demonstrating a five-year growth rate of 492 percent from 2003-2007. The five-year growth rate criteria was also used in selecting the Fast 500 companies placing Qualys as # 307 on the expanded list of industry notables.

"Being recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in North America is an honor that we share with our customers who from the beginning believed in our Software-as-a-Service solution for IT security and compliance management," said Philippe Courtot, Qualys CEO.  "We thank Deloitte for the ranking that underscores our efforts to help organization worldwide get a clear view on their IT security and achieve compliance."

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The Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50 Program honors the fastest growing software and information technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Don McCauley, Qualys CFO Qualys accepted this honor at The Computer History Museum on October 30th.

"We are pleased to be regarded by Deloitte as one of the fastest growing software and information technology companies in Silicon Valley," said Philippe Courtot, Qualys CEO.  "We share this recognition with our customers who understand the value of Software as a Service.  It is through the customer adoption of this innovative platform that we continue to experience growth and we extend a thank you to our customers for making this achievement possible."

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Nils is responsible for security, risk management and business continuity planning, including the security of the QualysGuard platform. Additionally, with his working industry knowledge, Nils will oversee Qualys' CSO Advisory board which main charter is to collaborate with other CSOs and industry leaders to offer real-world expertise in forging and implementing security and compliance best practices.

He stated: "Qualys has differentiated itself within the industry with its SaaS delivery platform and by keeping attention focused on the needs of the customer. I am looking forward to work with the Qualys team and with other CSOs in the industry to collaborate on real-life security and compliance issues and come up with best practices to address them."

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"Our partnership with Tata Communications allows them to offer their global customer base a proven, scalable and cost effective solution to help these organizations improve their security and streamline compliance initiatives. We are pleased to partner with such a world class organization and look forward to working with them" said Philippe Courtot, Qualys CEO.

John Landau, Senior Vice President of Global Managed Services for Tata Communications spoke about the company's latest launch saying  - "Effectively managing vulnerabilities to best-practice levels, in-house, is an expensive and difficult undertaking for businesses of any size. Mistakes can lead to crippling service downtime, potential data corruption, and the risk of being non-compliant. Tata's vulnerability management service helps organizations wrap their arms around which critical systems need patching at a drastically reduced total cost of ownership. There is no investment in capital or special skills required. The service allows customers both large and small to offload the grinding technical and operational aspects of vulnerability management while retaining control over decision-making and the actual remediation process."

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