Qualys State of Cyber Risk Assessment Report

Cybersecurity is rapidly maturing beyond managing vulnerabilities based solely on severity, demanding a focus on business context to effectively prioritize risks and secure critical assets against modern chaotic threats. This report reveals that while nearly half of organizations now have a formal cyber-risk program, most are still stuck in a tactical, manual cycle that fails to quantify or meaningfully reduce true business risk over time.

Download this research to assess the state of your cyber-risk program:

• Why 70% of organizations use security assessments but only 18% use integrated risk scenarios to quantitatively measure risk in the context of business impact.
• The critical disconnect in asset discovery, where 83% conduct inventories but 47% still rely on manual methods, hindering real-time visibility.
• Which prioritization methods influence long-term investment (like Potential Business Impact at 47%) versus day-to-day mitigation (where Vulnerability Severity still leads at 55%).
• Why security leaders need to shift from reactive incident response to a proactive Risk Operations Center (ROC) approach to predict and reduce the likelihood of high-impact events.