Qualys, Inc. Due Diligence

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United States · owned by Independent (United States) · www.qualys.com · 18 vendors

Qualys, Inc. is a leading provider of cloud-based information security and compliance solutions, offering its Enterprise TruRisk Platform to help organizations detect, assess, and remediate cyber threats across IT systems and web applications. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys serves over 10,000 subscription customers in more than 130 countries, including a large share of the Forbes Global 2000. The company provides a broad range of cybersecurity tools including vulnerability management, compliance auditing, and risk management, with strategic partnerships across major cloud providers and managed service organizations.

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Compliance

7 in-scope frameworks identified; showing 3.

SOC 2 (source) — No public evidence

Evidence: https://www.qualys.com/company

ISAE 3000 (source) — No public evidence

Evidence: https://www.qualys.com/company

NIS2 (source) — No public evidence

Evidence: https://www.qualys.com/company

Financials

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Financial Resilience Score: 8/10

Qualys demonstrates strong financial resilience underpinned by a highly recurring, subscription-based SaaS revenue model. The company consistently generates significant free cash flow and maintains a healthy balance sheet with minimal debt, providing substantial financial flexibility. Its cloud-based security platform benefits from high customer retention rates and strong net revenue retention, which provides predictable and growing revenue streams even in uncertain macroeconomic environments. The company operates with attractive operating margins relative to peers in the cybersecurity SaaS space, reflecting disciplined cost management and the inherent scalability of its platform architecture. Qualys has historically maintained profitability on both a GAAP and non-GAAP basis, which is relatively uncommon among pure-play cybersecurity vendors and signals operational maturity. Key risks include increasing competitive pressure from larger, better-capitalized vendors such as Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and Tenable, which could compress pricing and slow customer acquisition. Additionally, Qualys's relatively concentrated product focus on vulnerability management and compliance creates some exposure to market shifts or disruption in that specific segment. Overall, the combination of recurring revenues, strong cash generation, low leverage, and a mission-critical product offering in the growing cybersecurity market supports a high financial resilience score, tempered slightly by competitive dynamics and moderate growth deceleration relative to earlier years.

Key strengths: Highly recurring subscription-based SaaS revenue model with strong customer retention, Consistent free cash flow generation and minimal debt load, GAAP and non-GAAP profitability demonstrating operational maturity, Mission-critical cybersecurity platform with high switching costs, Scalable cloud-native architecture supporting margin expansion

Risk factors: Intensifying competition from Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Tenable, and Rapid7, Revenue growth deceleration compared to earlier high-growth years, Concentrated product focus on vulnerability management and compliance, Potential pricing pressure in a consolidating cybersecurity market, Dependence on enterprise IT security budgets which can be cyclically sensitive

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