Cyber-attacks have increased their prevalence and severity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many organisations are struggling to stay secure under the strain of a work-from-anywhere workforce, leaving IT teams desperate to reduce the attack surface and response times. 

Kenna Security calls on machine learning, predictive analytics and data science to empower IT teams to manage these risks. A market leader in risk-based vulnerability management, Kenna makes cyber security measures straightforward and accessible.

How Kenna can help

The boost in employees working from anywhere, coupled with increased migration to the cloud has led to security complexity for IT teams. Cyber security solutions can also be complicated to deploy and control, with many organisations managing multiple security endpoint solutions such as firewalls, antivirus, VPN and more.  

The technology:

• Uses an impressive mix of machine learning, predictive analytics and data science 
• Processes and analyses more than 18 threat and exploit intelligence feeds 
• Manages more than 12.7 billion vulnerabilities 
• Consolidates enterprise security data

The result? IT teams have the clearest view yet of organisational cyber risks.

You’ve been hit – what to fix first?

To help Security, IT and Executive teams easily evaluate cyber security vulnerabilities, Kenna developed the Kenna Risk Score.  

Via a specific score, teams can assess the risk of a vulnerability, asset class, workgroup, or the entire organisation. Remediation intelligence is used to understand which vulnerabilities are the riskiest to the enterprise, and which fixes will most reduce your risk score. This gives teams a common language to quickly and accurately manage cyber threats.

Cisco and Kenna join forces

Late last year, Cisco acquired Kenna Security.  

Cisco is already a key player in reducing the complexity of deploying and managing enterprise security. Cisco co-founded the Cyber Threat Alliance, a non-profit dedicated to improving cybersecurity for the global digital ecosystem. Cisco’s SecureX platform is the broadest and most integrated on the market — combining orchestration, device visibility, threat response and insights.  

By teaming up, Cisco and Kenna can offer customers a superior – and simpler – cyber security product. Using Kenna’s pioneering technology, Cisco embeds threat and risk-based vulnerability management into the SecureX platform. IT teams can prioritise vulnerabilities based on a robust risk methodology and their unique needs. Security workflows are consolidated into SecureX, so security teams don’t have to review vulnerabilities in yet another dashboard.  

Cisco and Kenna can transform the way IT and security teams collaborate.

What this means for you

Combining Kenna Security with Cisco’s SecureX platforms offer big benefits to IT teams. They can:

• Discover and prioritise their organisation’s assets with a centralised, contextual view 
• Make speedier decisions to prioritise vulnerabilities and data threats 
• Accelerate and simplify response times 
• Reduce compliance efforts and easily generate compliance reports
• Enhance collaboration between security and IT teams to more effectively deal with vulnerabilities

Empower your IT and Security teams

It’s clear the work-from-anywhere workforce isn’t going anywhere – and neither, unfortunately, are cyber security threats. But with security platforms like Kenna and Cisco combined, your enterprise IT and Security teams can breathe a sigh of relief and more effectively manage risk, at scale.

Ready to safeguard against cyber-attacks?

Get in touch with Outcomex’s security team. We can help you assess if Kenna and Cisco’s leading technology can help boost your organisation’s cyber security.