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Kenna Security Case Study

Large Enterprise Automotive & Transport Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise automotive & transport 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.

“Simply put, our internal customers are now more willingly involved.”

Challenges

  • 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

  • Approach used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
    • Use rating system from scanner
  • How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
    • Reduction in Mean Time To Remediate (MTTR)
    • Reduction in IT remediation time
    • SLA Adherence
  • 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
    • Kenna provides awareness of how much risk is in their environment

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 10%
    • Time spent on remediation: over 50%
    • Time spent on reporting: over 75%
  • Kenna Security Platform compared to other vulnerability management solutions:
  • Remediation Intelligence (guidance on “what to fix first”): Superior
  • Integrated real-time global exploit intelligence: Superior
  • Data science-based risk scoring methodology: Superior
  • “Off the shelf” integrations with a wide range of security data sources: Superior
  • Predictive vulnerability modeling: Superior




About This Data

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

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