Shailesh Athalye

Chief Product Solutions Officer at Qualys | Cyber Risk Management in AI Era | Product, GTM and Solutions

San Francisco6.5k followers
Qualysex-Symantecex-Persistent Systems

As the Senior Vice President of Product Management at Qualys, I lead the product management and Go to Market team and drive the company's vision of helping customers measure, communicate and eliminate Cyber Risk for Business.

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With over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, I have a proven track record of launching ground-breaking solutions that meet the evolving cyber risk use-cases in the field of Cyber Asset Management, Remediation, Security for Cloud, Containers and AI & LLMs, taking them to market with innovative go-to-market, pricing and messaging strategies and help drive business growth and customer success. I hold multiple certifications in IT risk management and computer and information systems security, including CRISC and CISA. I am passionate about leveraging my expertise in IT security best practices and information security standards to create products that enhance the security and compliance posture of our customers. I am also committed to fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration within my team and across the organization.

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  1. QUALYSJOB
    1. Chief Product Solutions Of…
      2M
    2. Senior VP of Products, GTM…
      5Y 3M
    3. VP of Compliance solutions
      1Y 11M
    4. Dir, Compliance Solutions
      1Y 10M
    5. Senior Eng Mgr
      1Y
    6. Mgr, Research IT GRCS
      1Y 11M
    7. Principal Eng, IT GRCS
      1Y 7M
  2. SYMANTECJOB
    1. Sr. Security & Threat Rese…
      4Y 5M
    2. SQA Eng
      1Y 8M
  3. PERSISTENT SYSTEMSJOB
    1. Software Eng
      1Y 11M

Time in market 22YOpen 7Closed 9Stints 16

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  1. Job: Qualys — Chief Product Solutions Officer · 2026-06 – present
  2. Job: Qualys — Senior Vice President of Products, GTM and Solutions Architecture · 2021-03 – 2026-06 — I head the product management. Go to Market, Product marketing and Solution Architecture strategies and teams to drive company's vision of helping customers measure, communicate and eliminate Cyber Risk for Business.
  3. Job: Qualys — VP of Compliance solutions · 2019-04 – 2021-03
  4. Job: Qualys — Director, Compliance Solutions · 2017-05 – 2019-03
  5. Job: Qualys — Senior Engineering Manager · 2016-05 – 2017-05
  6. Job: Qualys — Manager, Research IT GRCS · 2014-05 – 2016-04
  7. Job: Qualys — Principal Engineer, IT GRCS · 2012-10 – 2014-05
  8. Job: Symantec — Sr. Security & Threat Research Analyst, Information Security · 2008-04 – 2012-09 — - Designing of IT Security Standards (Technical/Procedural controls) for various Operating Systems, Databases, Web Servers, Applications. Working as a part of CIS (Centre for Information Security) consensus team to create and review various IT Security Benchmarks, used across the security industry. - Development of Neutral and Harmonized Control statements, similar to UCF. - Mapping of Control statements to various slots such as IT controls, Risk Events, IT Governance requirements, IT security Policies, and various industry Mandates/frameworks and best practices such as ISO 27001/2, PCI-DSS, CObIT, HIPAA, CSA, UCF, IT Objectives for SOX etc. - Analysis for IT Risk Management, Risk Scoring,…
  9. Job: Symantec — SQA Engineer · 2006-07 – 2008-03 — - QA/testing for enterprise-class IT GRC product- Control Compliance Suite (CCS) - Testing of IT Security controls (Technical/Procedural)
  10. Job: Persistent Systems — Software Engineer · 2004-08 – 2006-07 — Security Analysis for Openwave SpamControl and Email Security
  11. School: ISACA — CRISC, IT Risk Management
  12. School: ISACA — CISA, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance
  13. School: BSI — ISO 27001 LA
  14. School: Vishwakarma Institute of Technology — Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Applications
  15. School: Modern College — Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science
  16. School: Bal Shikshan Mandir Pune

Skills

Information SecurityPCI DSSCISASecurityRisk AssessmentCOBITCloud ComputingCEHVulnerability AssessmentVulnerability ManagementIT Risk ManagementIT AuditCloud SecurityIT ComplianceDLPInformation TechnologyIT GRCIT ControlsIT Security Best PracticesInformation Security Standards

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