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Kenna Security Case Study

S&P 500 Consumer Products Company

Introduction

This case study of a S&P 500 consumer products 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.

“The Kenna Security Platform gives us the ability to maximize the security team’s impact on the organization’s risk posture.”

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
- No way to quantify or measure risk from vulnerabilities
- 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:
- Integrated real-time global exploit intelligence

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
Since implementing the Kenna Security Platform, they have been able to reduce their risk posture score by 25%.

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