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Kenna Security Case Study

The Economist

Introduction

This case study of The Economist is based on a November 2018 survey of Kenna Security customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“We now have the ability to easily highlight the remediation actions with the most bang for the buck to our operations teams. We also have a feedback loop so they can see the risk scores changing every time they fix problems. This feedback loop wasn’t there before Kenna and so there was a “what’s the point?” feeling in operations about patching. Kenna has really helped us change that view. "

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
- Inefficiencies in vulnerability remediation
Previously used the following to prioritize vulnerability scan data:
- Spreadsheets

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:
- Data science-based risk scoring methodology
- “off the shelf” integrations with a wide range of security data sources

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
- Increased efficiency of vulnerability remediation
- Finding a quantifiable way to measure, reduce and report on risk
Since implementing the Kenna Security Platform, they have been able to reduce their risk posture score by 50%.
Most important factors that contributed to the success of their Kenna Security implementation:
- The Kenna Customer Success team (CSM, CSE)
- Sharing the risk scores widely to provide a feedback loop on actions taken or not taken.

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