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Kenna.VM Case Study

Medium Enterprise Professional Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise professional services company is based on a September 2020 survey of Kenna.VM customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Kenna was recommended to us as a great low-cost, high-value approach for a brand new EVM program. It enables rapid maturity at reasonable costs.”

Challenges

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

  • The vulnerability management challenges they were experiencing that led them to implement the Kenna.VM:
    • High volume of security data lacking context for decision making
    • Not having a way to quantify or measure risk from vulnerabilities

Use Case

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

  • The approach they used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
    • A rating system from scanner
  • They best describe their current engagement model between the Security and IT team as Security investigates and prioritizes vulnerabilities; IT remediates.
  • The criteria they use to evaluate the success of your Kenna.VM implementation:
    • Reduction in Mean Time To Remediate (MTTR)
    • Kenna risk score reduction
    • Reduction in IT remediation time
    • Reduction in reporting time

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Kenna.VM:

  • Before Kenna vs. After Kenna: Have you seen a reduction in time spent on the following activities? (Security and IT team time combined)
    • Time spent on Vulnerability Investigation: 25 – 50%
    • Time spent on remediation: 1 – 10%
    • Time spent on reporting: 25 – 50%
  • Kenna’s primary advantage(s) over other vulnerability management platforms:
    • Kenna goes beyond basic risk scoring and tells me what I need to fix first
    • Kenna provides meaningful and actionable data for remediation (remediation intelligence)
    • Kenna provides awareness of how much risk is in our environment
  • Rates the following for Kenna.VM compared to other vulnerability management solutions:
    • Remediation Intelligence (guidance on “what to fix first”): highly superior
    • Integrated real-time global exploit intelligence: on par
    • Data science-based risk scoring methodology: superior
    • “Off the shelf” integrations with a wide range of security data sources: superior
    • Predictive vulnerability modeling: on par




About This Data

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