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Kenna Security Case Study

Global 500 Pharmaceuticals Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 pharmaceuticals company is based on an October 2018 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 helped my team prioritize and drive remediation in our environment. The real-time intelligence has been a benefit in identifying/highlighting vulnerabilities that are truly a risk and requires action.”

“Kenna helped with internal collaboration between the Security team and the platform operations teams. Kenna’s platform helped to streamline the vulnerability reports and established trust – provided confidence that identified vulnerabilities (Top fixes) are truly a remediation priority.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company 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
- No way to quantify or measure risk from vulnerabilities
- Inefficiencies in vulnerability remediation
Previously used the following to prioritize vulnerability scan data:
- Spreadsheets
- Other vulnerability management tool(s)

Use Case

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

Has been actively using the Kenna Security Platform for Over 2 years.
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
- Predictive vulnerability modeling
- Tracking remediation progress (success)

Results

The surveyed company 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
- Transforming security data into actionable intelligence
- Finding a quantifiable way to measure, reduce and report on risk

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