Shailesh Athalye
Chief Product Solutions Officer at Qualys | Cyber Risk Management in AI Era | Product, GTM and Solutions
QualysAs 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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- QUALYSJOB
- Chief Product Solutions Of…2M
Chief Product Solutions Officer
Qualys
- Senior VP of Products, GTM…5Y 3M
Senior Vice President of Products, GTM and Solutions Architecture
Qualys
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.
- VP of Compliance solutions1Y 11M
VP of Compliance solutions
Qualys
- Dir, Compliance Solutions1Y 10M
Director, Compliance Solutions
Qualys
- Senior Eng Mgr1Y
Senior Engineering Manager
Qualys
- Mgr, Research IT GRCS1Y 11M
Manager, Research IT GRCS
Qualys
- Principal Eng, IT GRCS1Y 7M
Principal Engineer, IT GRCS
Qualys
- SYMANTECJOB
- Sr. Security & Threat Rese…4Y 5M
Sr. Security & Threat Research Analyst, Information Security
Symantec
- 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,…
- SQA Eng1Y 8M
SQA Engineer
Symantec
- QA/testing for enterprise-class IT GRC product- Control Compliance Suite (CCS) - Testing of IT Security controls (Technical/Procedural)
- PERSISTENT SYSTEMSJOB
- Software Eng1Y 11M
Software Engineer
Persistent Systems
Security Analysis for Openwave SpamControl and Email Security
- Job: Qualys — Chief Product Solutions Officer · 2026-06 – present
- 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.
- Job: Qualys — VP of Compliance solutions · 2019-04 – 2021-03
- Job: Qualys — Director, Compliance Solutions · 2017-05 – 2019-03
- Job: Qualys — Senior Engineering Manager · 2016-05 – 2017-05
- Job: Qualys — Manager, Research IT GRCS · 2014-05 – 2016-04
- Job: Qualys — Principal Engineer, IT GRCS · 2012-10 – 2014-05
- 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,…
- 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)
- Job: Persistent Systems — Software Engineer · 2004-08 – 2006-07 — Security Analysis for Openwave SpamControl and Email Security
- School: ISACA — CRISC, IT Risk Management
- School: ISACA — CISA, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance
- School: BSI — ISO 27001 LA
- School: Vishwakarma Institute of Technology — Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Applications
- School: Modern College — Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science
- School: Bal Shikshan Mandir Pune
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