Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Governance
• Employee well-being
• Community engagement
• Environmental stewardship
• Customer commitment

Environmental Achievements

• Engaged an external consultancy to complete a greenhouse gas (GHG) assessment for fiscal years 2020 and 2021.
• Implemented waste management programs including recycling at multiple offices and repurposing of equipment.
• Reduced energy use through unracking UPS modules and planning for lighting and AC sensors installation.

Social Achievements

• Continued to improve diversity among its growing workforce, with steady increases in recent years in the percentage of women employed among its global workforce and with over half of its US-based employees from underrepresented communities.
• Offered robust compensation and benefits to its employees, including competitive base salaries, variable pay and equity awards, and generous benefits packages.
• Hosted a company-wide “Take a Break Day,” offering all global employees an additional opportunity to take the day off without using any of their accrued paid leave.
• Provided full scholarships to computer science and IT engineering students at the Vellore Institute of Technology in India.
• Supported women in STEM through a donation to the Lila Poonawalla Foundation in India.
• Promoted reading in Pune schools by building a library and donating more than a thousand books in India.
• Planted 1,000 trees in Mahalunge Hill and across Pune, India.

Governance Achievements

• Maintained a strong corporate governance program that complies with regulation, reflects best practices, and continues to evolve.
• Established a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, covering responsible behavior related to avoiding conflicts of interest, public communications, financial reporting, safeguarding company assets, and interactions with governments, customers, suppliers, and competitors.
• Implemented Anticorruption Compliance Policy and Guidelines, providing detailed guidance regarding ethical and legal obligations relating to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and United Kingdom Bribery Act (UKBA).
• Implemented a whistleblower hotline for reporting violations.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Increase in GHG emissions between 2020 and 2021 due to an increase in the number of data centers utilized and an increase in office electricity use.

Mitigation Strategies

• Further explore how data centers utilize renewable energy and verify the use of renewable energy certificates (RECs), power purchase agreements (PPAs), and equivalents.
• Plan to update GHG assessment annually to monitor footprint and identify reduction opportunities.

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement

• Qualys Code of Business Conduct and Ethics applies to all contractors and vendors; security risk assessments and compliance reviews for key vendors.

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: SASB, UN SDGs

Certifications: ISO/IEC 27001:2013, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, ISO/IEC 27018:2019, FedRAMP Moderate ATO

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Goal 4 (Quality Education)
• Goal 5 (Gender Equality)
• Goal 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth)
• Goal 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure)
• Goal 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production)
• Goal 13 (Climate Action)

Qualys supports these goals through its business strategy, products, services, and philanthropic activities.

Sustainable Products & Innovation

• Cloud-based solutions that help minimize the number of physical servers customers must deploy, reducing their energy consumption.