Defending Federal Systems at Machine Speed Under CISA BOD 26-04

Qualys' mission doesn't pause for a change window, and neither do the actors targeting it. AI has cut exploitation timelines from weeks to hours, and threat actors are weaponizing federal vulnerabilities faster than most agencies can triage them. CISA BOD 26-04's 3-day remediation clock reflects that shift directly; it wasn't built for the pace agencies have historically responded to. 

Agencies still running human-paced triage and manual patch cycles face more than a compliance gap. They face a mission-readiness gap: the inability to close exposures before adversaries act on them. 

Join Qualys for a closer look at what it takes to detect, prioritize and remediate at the speed BOD 26-04 now demands, including a live demonstration inside a Risk Operations Center. 

Key Takeaways: 

• How AI is compressing exploit timelines and what that means for your remediation SLAs under BOD 26-04

• How AI-speed detection closes the gap between disclosure and exploitation, before remediation even begins

• Why manual triage and human-paced patch cycles are now a structural risk, not just an inefficiency

• A live look at machine-speed detection, prioritization and remediation in action