TechValidate Research on Cisco Vulnerability Management

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370 Customers Surveyed

2,872 Data Points Collected

190 Published TechFacts

10 Published Charts

98 Published Case Studies



Selected Research Highlights


Kenna Security Case Study

Amerisource Bergen Corporation

Introduction

This case study of Amerisource Bergen Corporation is based on an October 2019 survey of Kenna Security customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Vulnerabilities come to me, alerts ahead of a problem”.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Kenna Security:

  • Vulnerability management challenges they experienced that led them to implement the Kenna Security Platform:
    • High volume of security data lacking context for decision making

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Kenna Security that the surveyed company uses:

  • Approaches used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
    • CVSS 8+
  • How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
    • Kenna risk score reduction
    • Reduction in IT remediation time
  • Kenna’s primary advantage(s) over other vulnerability management platforms:
    • Kenna provides awareness of how much risk is in their environment
    • Kenna is updated continuously with real-time information
    • Kenna’s cloud platform scales elastically to virtually any organization size

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Kenna Security:

  • Reduction of time spent on the following activities, since using Kenna:
    • Time spent on Vulnerability Investigation: over 50%
    • Time spent on remediation: over 25%
    • Time spent on reporting: over 50%

Kenna Security Customer Research

What criteria do you use to evaluate the success of your Kenna Security platform implementation?

Kenna risk score reduction
76%
Reduction in Mean Time To Remediate (MTTR)
41%
Reduction in IT remediation time
31%
Reduction in vulnerability investigation time
30%
SLA Adherence
25%
Reduction in reporting time
23%

Kenna Security Customer Testimonial

Kenna is very helpful for generating risk reports in less time. We can remediate risks within a short period.

Karthika B., Information Security Assurance Analyst, Verifone

Kenna.VM Customer Testimonial

Kenna allows us to concentrate on vulnerabilities that pose a real risk to our environment and allows helps us prioritize remediation of these risk. This has helped both the security and IT teams in the right direction to reduce our organization’s risk score.

Brandon Tanaka, IT Director, Bank of Hawaii Corporation

Kenna Security Case Study

National Health Systems

Introduction

This case study of National Health Systems is based on an October 2018 survey of Kenna Security customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“The Kenna Security Platform gives us the ability to maximize the security team’s impact on the organization’s risk posture.”

“Kenna has the ability to provide integration of threat intelligence with our detected vulnerabilities to allow us to prioritize effort in risk reduction.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Kenna Security:

  • Security challenges experienced that led to implementing the Kenna Security Platform:
    • Too many vulnerabilities with no way to effectively prioritize
    • High volume of security data lacking context for decision making
    • No way to quantify or measure risk from vulnerabilities
    • Inefficiencies in vulnerability remediation
  • Previously used the following to prioritize vulnerability scan data:
    • Other vulnerability management tool(s)

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Kenna Security that the surveyed company uses:

  • Has been actively using the Kenna Security Platform for Over 2 years.
  • Kenna Security Platform features most important to them when evaluating competitive or alternative solutions:
    • Integrated real-time global exploit intelligence
    • Data science-based risk scoring methodology
    • “off the shelf” integrations with a wide range of security data sources

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Kenna Security:

  • Most important security challenges the Kenna Security Platform has helped solve:
    • Addressing vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk to their environment
    • Finding a quantifiable way to measure, reduce and report on risk

Kenna Security Customer Research

Before Kenna vs. After Kenna: Have you seen a reduction in time spent on the following activities? (Security and IT team time combined)

Over 75% Over 50% Over 25% Over 10% 0%
Time spent on Vulnerability Investigation

16%

39%

19%

19%

7%

Time spent on remediation

12%

32%

24%

15%

17%

Time spent on reporting

27%

25%

25%

13%

10%



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About Cisco Vulnerability Management

Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) offers an effective, efficient way to reduce your risk profile using risk-based prioritization powered by data science. Rely on it to ID the vulnerabilities that put you at the greatest risk, create a self-service environment for remediation teams, set intelligent SLAs based on your risk tolerance, compare your risk posture against industry peers, deliver clear reports with intuitive metrics, and more.

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