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Kenna Security Case Study

KPMG International

Introduction

This case study of KPMG International is based on an October 2019 survey of Kenna Security customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Kenna Security has enabled our organization to shift from count-based vulnerability management to a true risk based approach, significantly reducing our vulnerability exposure and overall risk.”

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:
- CVSS 10

How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
- Kenna risk score reduction
Kenna’s primary advantage(s) over other vulnerability management platforms:
- Kenna goes beyond basic risk scoring and tells them what they need to fix first
- Kenna provides awareness of how much risk is in their environment
- Kenna is updated continuously with real-time information
- Kenna aggregates data and reporting from multiple tools (vuln scanners, CMDB, discovery)

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 10%
- Time spent on remediation: 0%
- 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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