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Kenna Security Case Study

Global 500 Food Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 food 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.

“Reporting was a big business problem as server teams needed a central way to organize and prioritize their patching. Kenna solved that for us and integrated well with our vuln scanners.”

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:
- Too many vulnerabilities with no way to effectively prioritize
- No way to quantify or measure risk from vulnerabilities

Use Case

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

How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
- Reduction in Mean Time To Remediate (MTTR)
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 meaningful and actionable data for remediation (remediation intelligence)
- Kenna provides awareness of how much risk is in their environment
- Kenna is updated continuously with real-time information

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 75%

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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