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Kenna Security Case Study

Hampshire County Council

Introduction

This case study of Hampshire County Council is based on an October 2018 survey of Kenna Security customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“The Kenna Security Platform gives us the ability to maximize the security team’s impact on the organization’s risk posture.”

“We have a number of security standards to meet. This is normally done by external ITHC or equivalent. Kenna puts us in a better place to meet these requirements in advance. We have a large number of SSL certificates to manage. Kenna certificate management really helps with this.”

Challenges

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

Security challenges experienced that led to implementing the Kenna Security Platform:
- Too many vulnerabilities with no way to effectively prioritize
- High volume of security data lacking context for decision making
Previously used the following to prioritize vulnerability scan data:
- Spreadsheets
- An internally developed tool

Use Case

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

Has been actively using the Kenna Security Platform for 6-9 months.
Kenna Security Platform features most important to them when evaluating competitive or alternative solutions:
- Integrated real-time global exploit intelligence
- “off the shelf” integrations with a wide range of security data sources
- Integrated remediation and ticketing

Results

The surveyed organization 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
- Increased efficiency of vulnerability remediation
Since implementing the Kenna Security Platform, they have been able to reduce their risk posture score by 10%.
Most important factors that contributed to the success of their Kenna Security implementation:
- A partner (MSSP, Reseller)

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