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Kenna Security Case Study

S&P 500 Health Care Company

Introduction

This case study of a S&P 500 health care 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.

“We’ve shifted to spending more time on really critical issues, and getting faster remediations for those. That is huge value add!”

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

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+

How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
- Kenna risk score reduction
Kenna’s primary advantage(s) over other vulnerability management platforms:
- Kenna goes beyond basic risk scoring and tells them what they need to fix first

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 10%
- Time spent on reporting: over 25%

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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