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Kenna Security Case Study

Capital One Uk

Introduction

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

“Kenna reporting is quick and responsive and provided clear details of vulnerabilities.”

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
    • Inefficiencies in vulnerability remediation

Use Case

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

  • Approaches used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
    • CVSS 7+
    • CVSS 8+
    • CVSS 9+
    • CVSS 10
  • How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
    • Kenna risk score reduction
    • Reduction in vulnerability investigation time
    • SLA Adherence
    • Reduction in reporting time
  • Kenna’s primary advantage(s) over other vulnerability management platforms:
    • Kenna provides meaningful and actionable data for remediation (remediation intelligence)
    • Kenna aggregates data and reporting from multiple tools (vuln scanners, CMDB, discovery)
    • Kenna includes multiple threat intel feeds (eliminating the need for subscription)

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 50%

Kenna Security Case Study

Biogen Idec

Introduction

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

“Kenna significantly improved the way that we used to report vulnerabilities to IT Operations.”

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
    • High volume of security data lacking context for decision making
    • No way to quantify or measure risk from vulnerabilities
    • Inefficiencies in vulnerability remediation

Use Case

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

  • Approaches used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
    • Use rating system from scanner
  • When asked what best describes their current engagement model between the Security and IT team, they said that Security investigates and prioritizes vulnerabilities; IT remediates.
  • How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
    • Reduction in Mean Time To Remediate (MTTR)
    • Kenna risk score reduction
    • Reduction in IT remediation time
  • 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)

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 25%
    • Time spent on remediation: over 50%
    • Time spent on reporting: over 75%

Kenna Security Case Study

Global 500 Insurance Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 insurance 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.

“Kenna has helped us to enrich our vulnerability data, allowing us to make more impactful decisions when prioritizing.”

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
    • High volume of security data lacking context for decision making
    • Inefficiencies in vulnerability remediation

Use Case

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

  • Approach used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
    • Use rating system from a scanner
  • 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 meaningful and actionable data for remediation (remediation intelligence)
    • Kenna is updated continuously with real-time information
    • Kenna includes multiple threat intel feeds (eliminating the need for subscription)

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: over 10%
    • Time spent on reporting: over 25%

Kenna Security Case Study

Charter Communications

Introduction

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

“We needed a way to prioritize vulns because we have too many to work on traditionally.”

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:
    • Inefficiencies in vulnerability remediation

Use Case

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

  • Approaches used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
    • Use rating system from scanner
  • How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
    • Kenna risk score reduction
    • Reduction in vulnerability investigation time
    • Reduction in reporting time
  • 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 is updated continuously with real-time information
    • Kenna includes multiple threat intel feeds (eliminating the need for subscription)
    • Kenna’s cloud platform scales elastically to virtually any organization size

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 10%
    • Time spent on reporting: over 75%

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%

Kenna Security Case Study

Large Enterprise Energy & Utilities Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise energy & utilities 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.

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
    • 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:
    • Kenna risk score reduction
    • Reduction in IT remediation time
  • 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 is updated continuously with real-time information
    • Kenna aggregates data and reporting from multiple tools (vuln scanners, CMDB, discovery)
    • Kenna includes multiple threat intel feeds (eliminating the need for subscription)
    • Kenna’s cloud platform scales elastically to virtually any organization size

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: over 10%
    • Time spent on reporting: over 25%

Kenna Security Case Study

Large Enterprise Automotive & Transport Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise automotive & transport 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.

“Simply put, our internal customers are now more willingly involved.”

Challenges

  • Vulnerability management challenges they experienced that led them to implement 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

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)
    • Reduction in IT remediation time
    • SLA Adherence
  • 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

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: over 50%
    • Time spent on reporting: over 75%
  • Kenna Security Platform 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: Superior
  • Predictive vulnerability modeling: Superior

Kenna Security Case Study

HealthCare Partners Medical Group

Introduction

This case study of HealthCare Partners Medical Group 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.”

“We like how it aggregates the Nexpose consoles as well as provides an easy way to show metrics.”

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
    • Giving application owners access to a centralized location. Managing users in each console would have been too much work.

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:
    • Kenna risk score reduction
    • Reduction in reporting time
  • 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 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: over 25%
    • Time spent on reporting: over 50%

Kenna Security Case Study

Global 500 Banking Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 banking 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.

“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:
    • 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

Use Case

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

  • Approaches used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
    • CVSS 7+
  • When asked what best describes their current engagement model between the Security and IT team, they said that Security investigates; Security and IT work together to prioritize; IT remediates.
  • How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
    • Kenna risk score reduction
    • SLA Adherence
  • 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 aggregates data and reporting from multiple tools (vuln scanners, CMDB, discovery)
    • Kenna includes multiple threat intel feeds (eliminating the need for subscription)

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 75%
    • Time spent on remediation: over 75%
    • Time spent on reporting: over 25%
  • Kenna Security Platform compared to other vulnerability management solutions:

Kenna Security Case Study

Large Enterprise Transportation Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise transportation services 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.

“Kenna has helped teams talk a common language, use a single-tool and separate responsibility from accountability for the remediation activities. This has helped create focussed groups of risk owners who are aware of their environment and the progress made each period.”

Challenges

  • Vulnerability management challenges they experienced that led them to implement the Kenna Security Platform:
    • Too many vulnerabilities with no way to effectively prioritize
    • Inefficiencies in vulnerability remediation

Use Case

  • Approaches used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
    • CVSS 7+
    • CVSS 8+
    • CVSS 9+
    • CVSS 10
    • Use rating system from scanner
  • How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
    • Kenna risk score reduction
    • Reduction in IT remediation time
    • SLA Adherence
    • Reduction in reporting time
  • 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 includes multiple threat intel feeds (eliminating the need for subscription)

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 75%
    • Time spent on remediation: over 50%
    • Time spent on reporting: over 25%
  • Kenna Security Platform compared to other vulnerability management solutions:
  • Remediation Intelligence (guidance on “what to fix first”): Superior
  • Integrated real-time global exploit intelligence: Highly Superior
  • Data science-based risk scoring methodology: Highly Superior
  • “Off the shelf” integrations with a wide range of security data sources: Highly Superior
  • Predictive vulnerability modeling: Highly Superior

Kenna Security Case Study

Large Enterprise Automotive & Transport Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise automotive & transport 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.

“Kenna gives us meaningful and achievable goals that both Security and IT agree moves the needle on securing our organization.”

Challenges

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

  • Vulnerability management challenge they experienced that led them to implement the Kenna Security Platform:
    • Too many vulnerabilities with no way to effectively prioritize

Use Case

  • Approach used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
    • Use rating system from scanner
  • When asked what best describes their current engagement model between the Security and IT team, they said that Security investigates and prioritizes vulnerabilities; IT remediates.
  • How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
    • SLA Adherence
  • 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

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 50%

Kenna Security Case Study

Fortune 500 Telecommunications Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a Fortune 500 telecommunications services 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.

“We use Kenna to aggregate data from various scanning tools. The graphical representations are especially important for presenting results to executives.”

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
    • High volume of security data lacking context for decision making
    • No way to quantify or measure risk from vulnerabilities
    • Inefficiencies in vulnerability remediation

Use Case

  • Approach used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
    • CVSS 8+
  • How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
    • Reduction in Mean Time To Remediate (MTTR)
    • Kenna risk score reduction
    • Reduction in vulnerability investigation time

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 25%

Kenna Security Case Study

Global 500 Transportation Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 transportation services 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.

“Kenna filters out the noise and allows us to concentrate on what is meaningful to secure our infrastructure.”

Challenges

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

  • Vulnerability management challenge they experienced that led them to implement the Kenna Security Platform:
    • Too many vulnerabilities with no way to effectively prioritize

Use Case

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

  • Approach used to prioritize vulnerabilities prior to Kenna:
    • Homegrown prioritization tool
  • When asked what best describes their current engagement model between the Security and IT team, they said that Security investigates and prioritizes vulnerabilities; IT remediates.
  • How they evaluate the success of their Kenna Security platform implementation:
    • Reduction in Mean Time To Remediate (MTTR)
    • Kenna risk score reduction
    • Reduction in vulnerability investigation time
    • Reduction in IT remediation time
    • SLA Adherence

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 75%
    • Time spent on reporting: over 75%

Kenna Security Case Study

State & Local Government

Introduction

This case study of a state & local government is based on a November 2018 survey of Kenna Security customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization 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
  • Previously used the following to prioritize vulnerability scan data:
    • Spreadsheets

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Kenna Security that the surveyed organization uses:

  • Has been actively using the Kenna Security Platform for 9-12 months.
  • Kenna Security Platform features most important to them when evaluating competitive or alternative solutions:
    • Data science-based risk scoring methodology
    • “Off the shelf” integrations with a wide range of security data sources

Results

The surveyed organization 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

Kenna Security Case Study

Medium Enterprise Banking Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise banking 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
    • High volume of security data lacking context for decision making
  • Previously used the following to prioritize vulnerability scan data:
    • Spreadsheets
    • An internally developed tool

Use Case

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

  • Has been actively using the Kenna Security Platform for 9-12 months.
  • Kenna Security Platform features most important to them when evaluating competitive or alternative solutions:
    • Data science-based risk scoring methodology
    • Predictive vulnerability modeling

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%.

Kenna Security Case Study

Global 500 Banking Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 banking 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 has helped make informative and actionable data available quicker to our users.”

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
    • An internally developed tool

Use Case

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

  • Has been actively using the Kenna Security Platform for 3-6 months.
  • Kenna Security Platform features most important to them when evaluating competitive or alternative solutions:
    • Integrated real-time global exploit intelligence
    • “Off the shelf” integrations with a wide range of security data sources
    • Integrated remediation and ticketing

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 5%.

Kenna Security Case Study

Medium Enterprise Banking Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise banking company is based on a November 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 identify and remediate risk based on threat priority.”

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:
    • No way to quantify or measure risk from vulnerabilities
  • 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 1-2 years.
  • Kenna Security Platform features most important to them when evaluating competitive or alternative solutions:
    • Data science-based risk scoring methodology

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
  • Since implementing the Kenna Security Platform, they have been able to reduce their risk posture score by 75%.

Kenna Security Case Study

Fortune 500 Financial Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a Fortune 500 financial services company is based on a November 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
    • High volume of security data lacking context for decision making
    • 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 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

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

Kenna Security Case Study

Global 500 Pharmaceuticals Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 pharmaceuticals 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 re-shaped the way we manage risk across infrastructure. Prioritization is done based off what Kenna tells us. We only fix what Kenna considers a Top Fix.”

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
  • 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 1-2 years.
  • Kenna Security Platform features most important to them when evaluating competitive or alternative solutions:
    • Integrated real-time global exploit intelligence
    • Predictive vulnerability modeling
    • Integrated remediation and ticketing

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Kenna Security:

  • Most important security challenges the Kenna Security Platform has helped solve:
    • 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 10%.

Kenna Security Case Study

Medium Enterprise Energy & Utilities Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise energy & utilities 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 has been instrumental in giving IT departments a better perspective of the risk of not remediating vulnerabilities in our enterprise.”

“I would recommend Kenna for the value and different risk perspective it gives opposed to pure vuln scans.”

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
  • 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 Over 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
    • 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%.

Kenna Security Case Study

Large Enterprise Electronics Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise electronics company is based on a November 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.

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
  • Previously used the following to prioritize vulnerability scan data:
    • 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 3-6 months.
  • 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
    • Integrated remediation and ticketing

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
    • 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 25%.

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%.

Kenna Security Case Study

Educational Institution

Introduction

This case study of an educational institution is based on a November 2018 survey of Kenna Security customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Kenna has helped us prioritize vulnerabilities based off of risk. It has also helped us to create better visuals and reporting surrounding vulnerabilities.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization 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
    • Inability to easily assign assets to admins
  • Previously used the following to prioritize vulnerability scan data:
    • Spreadsheets

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Kenna Security that the surveyed organization uses:

  • Has been actively using the Kenna Security Platform for 9-12 months.
  • 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 organization 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%.

Kenna Security Case Study

Global 500 Financial Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 financial services company is based on a November 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 Security has helped us identify and prioritize our remediation efforts across multiple lines of business with different business objectives.”

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:
    • High volume of security data lacking context for decision making
  • Previously used the following to prioritize vulnerability scan data:
    • An internally developed tool

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:
    • Data science-based risk scoring methodology

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

Kenna Security Case Study

Medium Enterprise Health Care Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise health care company is based on a November 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.

“We have stopped chasing our tail and have taken measurable steps to securing the environment.”

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

Use Case

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

  • Has been actively using the Kenna Security Platform for 9-12 months.
  • Kenna Security Platform features most important to them when evaluating competitive or alternative solutions:
    • Integrated real-time global exploit intelligence
    • “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%.

Kenna Security Case Study

Fortune 500 Wholesale Distribution Company

Introduction

This case study of a Fortune 500 wholesale distribution company is based on a November 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.

“Greatest part here is scoring, clearly project it to the end support teams.”

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
  • 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 Over 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

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Kenna Security:

  • Most important security challenges the Kenna Security Platform has helped solve:
    • Increased efficiency of vulnerability remediation
  • Since implementing the Kenna Security Platform, they have been able to reduce their risk posture score by 50%.
  • Most important factors that contributed to the success of their Kenna Security implementation:
    • The Kenna support team

Kenna Security Case Study

The Economist

Introduction

This case study of The Economist is based on a November 2018 survey of Kenna Security customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“We now have the ability to easily highlight the remediation actions with the most bang for the buck to our operations teams. We also have a feedback loop so they can see the risk scores changing every time they fix problems. This feedback loop wasn’t there before Kenna and so there was a “what’s the point?” feeling in operations about patching. Kenna has really helped us change that view. "

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
    • 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:
    • 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
    • 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%.
  • Most important factors that contributed to the success of their Kenna Security implementation:
    • The Kenna Customer Success team (CSM, CSE)
    • Sharing the risk scores widely to provide a feedback loop on actions taken or not taken.

Kenna Security Case Study

Global 500 Pharmaceuticals Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 pharmaceuticals company is based on a November 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 has helped by providing a threat-driven approach and has enabled us to remediate with efficiency rather than coverage. We are able to quickly identify and address the right risks at the right time.”

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
    • Lack of commitment by IT to address vulnerabilities due to volume and lack of context.
  • Previously used the following to prioritize vulnerability scan data:
    • Other vulnerability management tool(s)
    • Archer VRM/VA

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
    • Integrated remediation and ticketing

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 25%.

Kenna Security Case Study

Fortune 500 Telecommunications Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a Fortune 500 telecommunications 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.

“The Kenna platform has been able to quantify overall risk versus vulnerabilities.”

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:
    • DHCP, Duplicate hosts with Qualys, however Kenna and our Team has been able start using the QG_Host_ID as a tracking mech and it’s worked out well.
  • Previously used the following to prioritize vulnerability scan data:
    • 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 Over 2 years.
  • Kenna Security Platform features most important to them when evaluating competitive or alternative solutions:
    • Data science-based risk scoring methodology

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Kenna Security:

  • Most important security challenges the Kenna Security Platform has helped solve:
    • 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 25%.

Kenna Security Case Study

Medium Enterprise Pharmaceuticals Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise pharmaceuticals 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 gives us great visibility into our existing vulnerabilities, and makes it easy to search for specific vulnerabilities or report on a single system or group of systems. This was significantly easier than searching through massive PDF scan reports for the info we needed.”

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:
    • 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:
    • 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
    • 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 10%.



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