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Kenna.VM Case Study

Global 500 Banking Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 banking company is based on an October 2021 survey of Kenna.VM customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“we had nothing to address risk and vulnerability management within the applications. Kenna provided us a way to aggregate various scanner results and apply a risk analysis that wasn’t there before”

“We have a fantastic and supportive customer success team.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Kenna.VM:

The vulnerability management challenges they were experiencing that led them to implement the Kenna.VM:
- Not having a way to quantify or measure risk from vulnerabilities

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Kenna.VM that the surveyed company uses:

The approach they used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
- A rating system from scanner
- A homegrown prioritization tool
They best describe their current engagement model between the Security and IT team as Security investigates; Security and IT work together to prioritize; IT remediates.
The criteria they use to evaluate the success of your Kenna.VM implementation:
- Reduction in Mean Time To Remediate (MTTR)
- Reduction in vulnerability investigation time

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Kenna.VM:

Before Kenna vs. After Kenna: Have you seen a reduction in time spent on the following activities? (Security and IT team time combined)
- time spent on Vulnerability Investigation: 10 – 25%
- time spent on remediation: 1 – 10%
- time spent on reporting: 25 – 50%
Kenna’s primary advantage(s) over other vulnerability management platforms:
- Kenna goes beyond basic risk scoring and tells me what I need to fix first
- Kenna provides meaningful and actionable data for remediation (remediation intelligence)
- Kenna provides awareness of how much risk is in our environment
- Kenna aggregates data and reporting from multiple tools (vuln scanners, CMDB, discovery)
Rates the following for Kenna.VM compared to other vulnerability management solutions:
- remediation Intelligence (guidance on “what to fix first”): superior
- integrated real-time global exploit intelligence: superior
- data science-based risk scoring methodology: superior
- “Off the shelf” integrations with a wide range of security data sources: on par
- predictive vulnerability modeling: superior

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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