The Expanding Attack Surface Demands a New Operating Model
Qualys expands its Risk Operations Center to manage expanding attack surfaces and accelerate risk reduction.
The article highlights the increasing challenge of reducing enterprise risk faster than adversaries can exploit it, especially with AI accelerating attack timelines. It emphasizes that the expanding attack surface beyond traditional IT assets into mobile, OT, and IoT environments necessitates a new operating model. The Risk Operations Center (ROC) is presented as a system of record for proactive risk reduction, integrating various technologies and expertise to manage and remediate vulnerabilities across the entire enterprise.
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The lesson from this incident
Full lessonOrganizations are struggling to reduce enterprise risk faster than adversaries — now supercharged by AI — can exploit newly discovered vulnerabilities. The attack surface has grown far beyond traditional IT into mobile, OT, and IoT environments, many of which lack mature security controls or visibility. Without a unified, proactive system for tracking and remediating risk across all asset types, security teams are perpetually reactive. The Risk Operations Center (ROC) concept addresses this by consolidating risk intelligence, remediation workflows, and cross-domain expertise into a single operating model. Failure to evolve beyond siloed, IT-centric security programs leaves critical gaps that adversaries are actively mapping and exploiting.
