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Kenna Security Case Study

Global 500 Banking Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 banking 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 Security has enabled our organization to shift from count-based vulnerability management to a true risk-based approach, significantly reducing our vulnerability exposure and overall risk.”

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
    • 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

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

  • Approaches used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
    • CVSS 7+
  • When asked what best describes their current engagement model between the Security and IT team, they said that Security investigates; Security and IT work together to prioritize; IT remediates.
  • How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
    • Kenna risk score reduction
    • 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 meaningful and actionable data for remediation (remediation intelligence)
    • Kenna provides awareness of how much risk is in their environment
    • Kenna aggregates data and reporting from multiple tools (vuln scanners, CMDB, discovery)
    • Kenna includes multiple threat intel feeds (eliminating the need for subscription)

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 75%
    • Time spent on remediation: over 75%
    • Time spent on reporting: over 25%
  • Kenna Security Platform compared to other vulnerability management solutions:




About This Data

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