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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

Fortune 500 Wholesale Distribution Company

Introduction

This case study of a Fortune 500 wholesale distribution company is based on a November 2018 survey of Kenna Security customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Greatest part here is scoring, clearly project it to the end support teams.”

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
  • Previously used the following to prioritize vulnerability scan data:
    • Spreadsheets
    • 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

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Kenna Security:

  • Most important security challenges the Kenna Security Platform has helped solve:
    • Increased efficiency of vulnerability remediation
  • Since implementing the Kenna Security Platform, they have been able to reduce their risk posture score by 50%.
  • Most important factors that contributed to the success of their Kenna Security implementation:
    • The Kenna support team

Kenna Security Customer Research

Most Important Kenna Platform Features

What Kenna Security Platform features were most important to you when evaluating competitive or alternative solutions?

Data science-based risk scoring methodology
80%
Integrated real-time global exploit intelligence
69%
“Off the shelf” integrations with a wide range of security data sources
60%
Predictive vulnerability modeling
31%
Integrated remediation and ticketing
26%

Kenna Security Customer Testimonial

We no longer rely on the inferior reporting mechanisms that our vulnerability scanner provider provides and we no longer need to rely on our in-house built database reporting mechanism.

Head of Information Security, Fortune 500 Health Care Company

Kenna Security Case Study

Detasad

Introduction

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

“We have selected Kenna to manage vulnerabilities and so far it works as expected.”

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:
    • 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

Use Case

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

  • Approaches used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
    • CVSS 7+
    • CVSS 8+
    • CVSS 9+
    • CVSS 10
  • How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
    • Reduction in Mean Time To Remediate (MTTR)
    • Kenna risk score reduction
    • SLA Adherence
  • Kenna’s primary advantage(s) over other vulnerability management platforms:
    • Kenna has been integrated with our Secureworks SIEM making our incident response more efficient.

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 75%
    • Time spent on reporting: over 75%
  • Kenna Security Platform compared to other vulnerability management solutions:

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

IT teams are more aware of the vulnerabilities on their servers and are more conscious of getting them patched more frequently.

IT Security Engineer, S&P 500 Banking Company



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About Cisco Vulnerability Management

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