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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Kenna Security to Deliver Industry Leading Vulnerability Management News provided by Share this article News Summary: Intent to acquire Kenna Security a market leader in risk-based vulnerability management, to advance Ciscos commitment to radically simplify security and help customers improve their security posture Kenna Security uses machine learning (ML) and data science to track and predict real-world exploitations, empowering security teams to manage the e...

Cisco has announced plans to acquire threat intelligence provider Kenna Security for an undisclosed amount. The announcement follows Ciscos recent acquisition of Socio Labs, a hybrid event management solution that supports in-person and virtual event hosting. Kennas risk-based vulnerability management platform leverages natural language processing, predictive modeling, and machine learning to identify threats. It then computes a risk score based on the number of instances of each vulnerability,...

The amount of the deal was not disclosed. With this acquisition, Cisco will allow security and IT teams to collaborate to reduce the attack surface and the time it takes to detect and respond. The combination of Cisco SecureX platform’s threat intelligence with Kenna Security’s vulnerability management capabilities will allow customers to find threats faster, improve collaboration between security and IT teams and reduce the attack surface. Led by Karim Toubba, CEO, Kenna Security is a cyb...

We knew this would require upending a stagnant VM market and forging a new category, ultimately known as Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM). We knew that once the market was ready for RBVM our customers would be the trailblazers; aligning around the shared vision of their entire organization working together to reduce cyber risk. And we knew that once we had demonstrated the results RBVM could achieve; we would change the way the entire world addresses vulnerability management. RBVM is...

Cisco Confirms Plans to Acquire Kenna Security Cisco plans to integrate Kennas vulnerability management technology into its SecureX platform. Cisco today confirmed plans to acquire Kenna Security, provider of vulnerability management technology, with plans to integrate its capabilities into the SecureX platform. Kenna Securitys technology uses machine learning to analyze threat data and identify which risks organizations should prioritize – a useful technology to have at a time when organizat...

5 Companies That Came To Win This Week For the week ending May 14 CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel. By Rick Whiting May 14, 2021, 02:02 PM EDT The Week Ending May 14 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is Solution Provider NWN, which is moving up the ranks of leading solution providers with its acquisition of Carousel Industries. Also making the list this week are Apple device management software maker Jamf for...

Cisco strikes again grabbing threat assessment tool Kenna Security as third acquisition this week Cisco has been busy on the acquisition front this week, and today the company announced it was buying threat assessment platform Kenna Security, the third company it has purchased this week. The two companies did not disclose the purchase price. With Kenna, Cisco gets a startup that uses machine learning to sort through the massive pile of threat data that comes into a security system on a daily ba...

Cisco has agreed to purchase Kenna Security to help customers more effectively prioritize vulnerabilities based on threat intelligence and business impact.

Publishing exploit code does more harm than good, says report Disclosing exploit code before patches are available gives malicious actors a ‘massive’ head-start, says Kenna Security Share this item with your network: By Published: 13 May 2021 13:12 Cyber security researchers and ethical hackers may wish to consider easing off on publicly disclosing vulnerability exploit code before patches have been made available, because doing so gives malicious actors a “clear and unequivocal” ...

Analysis of the NIST National Vulnerability Database shows that security teams were under siege in 2020 and into the first part of 2021 defending against an unprecedented number of flaws. Todays columnist, Ed Bellis of Kenna Security, cautions that CVSS scores dont always tell the full story. shioshvili is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 A growing number of companies are adopting risk-based vulnerability management programs to handle the endless wave of new vulnerabilities being disclosed every day...