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Kenna Security Case Study

Global 500 Transportation Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 transportation services company is based on an October 2019 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 filters out the noise and allows us to concentrate on what is meaningful to secure our infrastructure.”

Challenges

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

Vulnerability management challenge they experienced that led them to implement the Kenna Security Platform:
- Too many vulnerabilities with no way to effectively prioritize

Use Case

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

Approach used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
- Homegrown prioritization tool
When asked what best describes their current engagement model between the Security and IT team, they said that Security investigates and prioritizes vulnerabilities; IT remediates.
How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
- Reduction in Mean Time To Remediate (MTTR)
- Kenna risk score reduction
- Reduction in vulnerability investigation time
- Reduction in IT remediation time
- SLA Adherence

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%

About Kenna.VM

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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