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Kenna Security Case Study

S&P 500 Banking Company

Introduction

This case study of a S&P 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.

“By prioritizing fixes by risk, we better utilized our time spent on fixing vulnerabilities.”

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:
- High volume of security data lacking context for decision making

Use Case

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

Approaches used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
- Use rating system from scanner

How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
- Kenna risk score reduction

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 50%
- Time spent on reporting: over 10%

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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