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Cisco completes purchase of security risk-management firm
Cisco bought Kenna Security to integrate its data-science-driven, security risk-management technology into Cisco s Secure X platform. Credit: Cisco
Cisco continues to bulk-up its security portfolio, this week closing the deal on risk-based management company Kenna Security for an undisclosed amount.
Kenna’s Risk-Based Vulnerability Management system collects and analyses security data to provide security teams with information about threats so they can prioritise remediation and better understand risks.
The technology will become part of Cisco’s SecureX service that integrates numerous security components. Cisco says the service is an open, cloud-native system to detect and remediate threats across Cisco and third-party products from a single interface. The SecureX dashboard shows operational metrics, triggers alerts to emerging threats, and accelerates threat investigations and incident management by a
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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 about to reach critical mass
Over the past decade, we have not only defined and created the RBVM category but also established Kenna as a clear leader which is a very rare accomplishment. And the best part is that our customers are demonstrably more secure as a result.
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 basis and prioritizes the threats most likely to do the most damage. That could be a very useful tool these days when threats abound and it’s not always easy to know where to put your limited security resources. Cisco plans to take that technology and integrate into its SecureX platform.