Ekco, a leading managed cloud and cybersecurity provider across Europe, has announced the launch of its Managed Risk Operations Centre (ROC), powered by Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM). The new centre is designed to help Irish organisations move from fragmented vulnerability management to continuous, business-aligned cyber risk reduction.
As boards face increasing scrutiny over cyber resilience, regulatory obligations such as NIS2 and DORA, and rising ransomware losses globally, Ekco's ROC enables organisations to clearly understand their true exposure and demonstrate structured, ongoing risk reduction.
Despite significant investment in security tooling, risk data often remains siloed across vulnerability scanners, cloud platforms, endpoint tools, and compliance systems. The result is large volumes of alerts and vulnerability data, but limited visibility into which issues materially increase business risk. Moreover, as cyber risk becomes a board-level accountability issue and insurers demand stronger evidence of control effectiveness, organisations require more than tooling. They require an operational model that connects risk insight to action.
Ekco's new ROC delivers that model by combining the Qualys ETM platform with Ekco's managed security expertise, giving security and business leaders a clear, consolidated view of their attack surface and what requires immediate attention.
Ekco integrates threat detection, continuous monitoring, risk-based vulnerability management, and expert remediation support within a single managed service. Rather than focusing solely on vulnerability counts or severity scores, the ROC approach prioritises exposures based on exploit likelihood, asset criticality, and business impact, enabling organisations to focus remediation where it will materially reduce risk.
Steve MacNicholas, CEO, Ekco Ireland, said: "Organisations are investing heavily in cybersecurity, yet many still lack a clear, consolidated view of risk. Boards want to understand exposure in business terms, not just technical metrics. Our Risk Operations Centre changes that conversation. By combining Ekco's managed expertise with Qualys' powerful Enterprise TruRisk Management solution, we help customers quantify cyber risk, prioritise what truly matters, and demonstrate measurable reduction over time. This is about operationalising cyber risk management, not simply generating more reports."
Qualys ETM underpins the service by aggregating telemetry across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, enriching it with global threat intelligence, and applying contextual risk scoring that reflects potential business impact. This allows organisations to move beyond reactive patch cycles and towards a continuous risk reduction model aligned to their risk appetite and regulatory obligations.
"With threat actors exploiting vulnerabilities faster than ever, organisations need to shift from simply finding more exposures to operationalising cyber risk management, aligned with business risk tolerance," said Matt Middleton-Leal, RVP Northern Europe, "Qualys. Ekco's proactive mROC service will help businesses transform their overall approach to risk, empowering them to go beyond traditional vulnerability detection by combining exposure management, exploit validation, risk quantification, and automated remediation."
The Ekco ROC is designed for both mid-market organisations and large enterprises, either augmenting internal security teams or operating as a fully managed risk function. It provides continuous visibility across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid estates, structured reporting for executive stakeholders, and coordinated remediation workflows to accelerate time from risk identification to resolution. The ROC service is available immediately to Ekco's existing and new customers across Ireland and the UK.
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