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Kenna Security Case Study

Global 500 Financial Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 financial services 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 allowed us to get away from spreadsheets and empower LOB and application team to drive remediation. It a well built easy to use tool that provides value.”

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 1-2 years.
Kenna Security Platform features most important to them when evaluating competitive or alternative solutions:
- Integrated real-time global exploit intelligence
- 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
- Transforming security data into actionable intelligence
- 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%.

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