2026 SC Award Winner Qualys – Best Cloud Security Management Solution

Qualys is the winner of the 2026 SC Award for Best Cloud Security Management Solution, helping enterprises manage security across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Cloud breaches often start with common management gaps such as misconfigurations, unsecured workloads, API exposure, and limited runtime visibility. As organizations move from on-premises infrastructure to multi-cloud architectures, security teams must manage posture, workload protection, detection and response, and compliance across a rapidly expanding attack surface. Many struggle to prioritize which risks truly require action.

Qualys TotalCloud addresses this challenge by bringing together cloud posture management, Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code scanning, workload protection, runtime threat detection, and application and AI security within a single SaaS platform. Its TruRisk scoring model correlates exposure data with runtime signals and business context to help security teams prioritize the risks that matter most. Built-in automation and playbooks support faster remediation and mitigation.

Qualys protects more than 44 million cloud workloads worldwide and supports compliance across more than 100 global frameworks. With a consumption-based licensing model and flexible license reallocation across cloud, container, application, API, and AI security, Qualys positions TotalCloud as a unified risk operations platform designed to reduce the total cost of ownership while improving mean time to remediate in increasingly complex cloud environments.

“The solution is a comprehensive cloud management platform that includes posture management, Kubernetes, Infra as Code, workload protection, detection, and response. Qualys has an extremely large global customer base in many industries, and pricing is based on consumption, rather than the number of employees,” said SC Awards judge Gary Long, a cybersecurity veteran in the public and private sectors.