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Kenna Security Case Study

Medium Enterprise Banking Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise banking 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.

“Kenna allowed us to identify and remediate risk based on threat priority.”

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:
    • No way to quantify or measure risk from vulnerabilities
  • Previously used the following to prioritize vulnerability scan data:
    • Spreadsheets

Use Case

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

  • Has been actively using the Kenna Security Platform for 1-2 years.
  • Kenna Security Platform features most important to them when evaluating competitive or alternative solutions:
    • 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:
    • Addressing vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk to their environment
  • Since implementing the Kenna Security Platform, they have been able to reduce their risk posture score by 75%.




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of Cisco Vulnerability Management by TechValidate.

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