# Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) Reviews **Vendor:** Cisco **Category:** [Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/risk-based-vulnerability-management) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 217 ## About Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM), the original SaaS risk-based vulnerability management platform, prioritizes vulnerabilities that pose a real risk, enabling Security and IT teams to focus their limited resources and remediate more efficiently. Cisco’s data science-driven prioritization evaluates both enterprise data and a wealth of data on real-world exploit activity and translates that context into actionable intelligence to guide remediation. ## Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) Reviews ### 1. Ease of use and better transparency **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Being that I know our object environment very well and am very proficient in the PM process at our company this tool will allow me to see what our INFOSEC team sees so we can work from the same application and not try to decipher two applications for the same issue. I now have a tool that allows me to render issues as qualified or to associate them to our normal patch process. Since I now see our patch process and their vulnerability discovery I can assess issues much quicker and with better clarity. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** So far I have no issues as the Kenna application is quite informative. As I use it more I may request certain views that I cannot create myself. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can see the KB's listed and our environment in AD and get more info on why certain patches and CVE's are listed. I have the access to script out the removal of files from apps and not uninstall or patch other apps or OS's ### 2. Vulnerability prioritization tool for non-technical **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Kenna is easy to use and to understand. It's perfect to show to the team leader or the business the risk connected to vulnerabilities for therir applications. Also it allows to prioritize vulnerability and show how a fix can reduce the overall risk of the applications. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Some integrations are not present and, even if kenna as some api, not always it's easy to import data in it and correlate them with the one in the platform (the risk score may follow different scale) **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It shows in an easy way which fixes apply and how those reduce the risk of an application ### 3. Comprehensive and User-Friendly Vulnerability Management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The user interface of Cisco Vulnerability Management stands out as one of its features. Even individuals who are new, to vulnerability management will find the platform intuitive and easy to navigate. This is particularly advantageous for teams with varying levels of expertise. The solution excels in assessing risks ensuring that vulnerabilities are prioritized effectively. Doing it helps organizations focus on addressing the critical issues first improving their overall security posture. Another notable aspect is its integration capabilities seamlessly working with tools and platforms. This feature streamlines vulnerability management. Provides a view of an organization's security landscape. Furthermore, the platform offers insights, into vulnerabilities by providing remediation guidance and suggesting practices for mitigation. This assists security teams in making informed decisions. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Cost Concerns; While Cisco Vulnerability Management offers a variety of features the pricing may pose limitations, for organizations or startups. The pricing structure might not be as flexible compared to competitors. Steep Learning Curve; Even though the interface is user-friendly setting up the solution and fully grasping its features might require some time and effort. Proper training and onboarding are essential to unlock its potential. Customer Support Experience; Although customer support is generally responsive there may be delays, in addressing complex or unique issues. It would be beneficial to have a response time and customized solutions in cases. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We primarily utilize Cisco Vulnerability Management for assessing OS vulnerabilities, which encompasses not only the OS itself but also the vulnerabilities associated with installed software. The solution aids us in identifying these vulnerabilities and provides recommended solutions for remediation. This is a critical aspect of our cybersecurity strategy to ensure the integrity and security of our digital assets. ### 4. A reliable entry point to scan, remediate & analyze your VM Vulnerabilities **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harsh M. | Java Developer (Microservices), Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** A clutter free minimal dashboard which shows a brief information on your assets, vulnerabilities and also possible fixes for vulnerabilities. Moreover, the dashboard shows quick visible links to filter based on easily exploitable vulnerabilities, popular malwares etc. Such filters are easy to use for a novice user as well as a person with limited tech knowledge. To add, there are custom query filters to search assets based on tags as well as check boxes to filter the vulnerabilities based on status for e.g. open, closed, ports, classification etc. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Search, asset filteration, tool tips can really help understand new users who have no prior background of vulnerability identification & removal. Tutorials, links to documentation or security terms and practices can be included. Moreover, the UI can be little more simple, viewable for an intuitive UX **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** The tool provides a summary of vulnerabilities as well as the possible fixes for your assets (i.e. VM). Based on the number of vulnerabilities, it also portrays a vulnerability score from 0 to 1000. Organisations can set a benchmark basis this score and ensure their assets are compliant to a benchmark score. ### 5. We don't want to imagine life without it. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zachary M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** When I started at my company, our team had several serious security vulnerabilites. By utilizing Cisco Vulnerability Management, we're now recognized as having the most secure environement company-wide. Cisco Vulnerabiliy Management gives our team threat vulnerability detection, prioritization, tracking, and even recommended steps to remediation. I can't imagine where our team would be without it. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** I've noticed that when I am viewing a group and click the Fixes tab, if I click on the number of assets affected by a vulnerability, I am unable to then hit the back button to return to the group view. This is frustrating. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cisco Vulnerability Management enables us to quickly identify and resolve the most serious security vulnerabilites affecting our platform. As a Managed File Transfer (MFT) provider, we depend on Cisco Vulnerability Management to keep our customers' data secure. ### 6. Excellent security vulnerability tool. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kumar M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** All vulnerability are properly arrange w.r.t to VMs which helps a lot. It is easy to use as you can filter your requirement with queries. We use it a lot and it helps us sort out our vulnerability issue. Haven't had need to contact customer supoort but that i guess is a good thing. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The report generated to be made a bit more user friendly to read. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping in solving the security vulberability issue. It regularly updates the vulnerable VMs and also the vulberabilty those VM have, this helps us the most as we don't need spend extra time in figuring that out ourself. By doing this, it helps us save a lot of time too. ### 7. Notifies and report on vulnerability **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carolina S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Easy to manage vulnerability using Talos and response to vulnerable threat on time. Easy configuration and onboarding process which has reduce our system risk. Integration with Cisco XDR help expedite incident response time. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** I feel that the analyzed report has is not detailed enough to feed all the need to measuring the threat and vulnerability. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We now has an automated systems and notifications center that works automatically 24/7 in scanning vulneability and weak spot on our system. Fixing issues before it harming our system are the advantages of this software. ### 8. Solid tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ivan G. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** A single pane of glass to get an overall view of the risks in my environment. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Filtering vulnerabilities by CVE does not give me the result expected. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Identifying and reporting features. components that are affected to address them accordingly and so making us aware of the attack surface to avaluate how critical is for our company. ### 9. Best tool to check vulnerabilities list **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sangeetha P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The Kenna tool is really helpful for us. It finds security risks and gives us a list. The best part is, it also giving soltions to fix these risks. This makes our work easier and quicker. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The tool could be better if it had more filter options. This would help us quickly find issues related to specific areas like applications and infrastructure. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Kenna tool is really helpful for us. It finds security risks and gives us a list. The best part is, it also giving soltions to fix these risks. This makes our work easier and quicker. ### 10. Provides visibility but suffers from defects **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Cisco Vulnerability Management (CVM) does allow a subscriber to segment security issues by either device type or vulnerability making it easier to see what a the significant risks are that require remediation. The risk meter paradigm allows administators the ability to provide other IT groups a simple way to track and address their specific risks. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The CVM platform has issues with holding settings when marking specfic vulnerabilites as either false positive or risk accepted. The latter somes disappear and need to be re-entered. Also my experience has been that CVM has issues correlating assets being imported causing duplication of assets and wide swings in overall asset counts. Finally, helpful support for the product is almost non-existent. If you can't find the answer in the knowledge base and try opening a ticket it takes days sometimes weeks for a response and then its only to send a link. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** TRacking security vulnerablites from identification to remediation. Provides some information regarding remediation solutions. Allows IT groups to track progess of necessary remediations. ### 11. Technical FAS II **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The simplicity of the dashboard is not too cumbersome. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** I would utilize more Documentation collaboration, allowing for additional notes that would allow you to tag people already within the system to alert them of updates and changes. In addition to the notification system **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Patches, risk management ### 12. Cisco Vulnerability Management is Invaluable in Detecting Vulnerabilities **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dirk R. | Principal Technical Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Cisco Vulnerability Management displays all current vulnerabilities in a nice layout, allowing you to display servers based on various criteria. It helps me to keep my servers up-to-date and ensure that they are safe. Links are provided to either fix a vulnerability or provide a workaround for it. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** As a user, there is no way to quickly check if a vulnerability still exists after providing a fix/workaround. I need to wait for the next automatic scan or request a rescan through our IT department. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to keep my servers up-to-date with the latest patches and hot fixes. ### 13. Most effective in the market **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aranya B. | SDE - II, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** It scans inside executables to find vulnerabilities. Good dashboard features. Easy to use **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Points out one issue at a time in top-fixes, should point out all of them. The navigation from VM to vernability is a problem. Organisation should have an option to highlight the issues that are fixed in the regular patch and issues for which patches are not yet available. Shoud have a custom feature tolet all users build their own dashboards based on raw data in the tool. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Log4j Os level patches application vernabilities ### 14. Pros and Cons of Kenna **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Pros of Kenna is that it is extremely easy to learn and has a clean interface that can be utilized at all levels. Whether your are the remediation team or the CEO, Kenna can provide data in a straight to the point fashion making it very appealing to organizations. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** I think the biggest dislike about Kenna is they haven't seemed to update many features to stay up to date with competition features, even though it can still be accomplished with Kenna, it may require additional tools for an organization to purchase. This can be treated as a pro as well though, because Kenna knows what they do well and stay in their lane rather than spreading themselves too thin. Regardless the power of Kenna should not be underestimated for its users, as it has a lot of value. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem Kenna solves for me is by providing a single pane of glass to view all data in one place, plus it provides an opportunity to automate the vulnerability prioritization process. ### 15. Cisco VM, a centralized view of your organization's risk **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The most helpful feature of Cisco Vulnerability Management, in my opinion, is that it offers a complete view of all your asset. In one page, you can have a clear view of which is the most critical asset and in a few clicks you can learn how to recover it. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The downside of Cisco Vulnerability Management is the custom query string feature and the filtering option. The former is not "user-friendly" and you have to read the guide to form a complex sentence (auto-completion or hints would be a killing feature while you are typing wildcards); the latter has an issue when the group of assets changes, indeed the filters are not updated. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** The primary issue that Cisco Vulenerability Management is solving is the lack of having a tool capable of centralize the information about vulnerabilities coming from different sources ### 16. All in one place **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Data visualisation - colors / numbers allows to pinpoint right away what needs to be done. Integration is very easy in any kind of environment plus it easily scalable. The tool have a lot of different features and is able to give high details on each aspect of found vulnerabilities which is very comforting. Used on a daily basis, CVM help to reduce the impact surface while applying the approriate effort on the right spots. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** When dealing with a huge number of assets, use of filters and a good understanding of the interface are needed to extract the data you are looking for. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Showing right away the area that need work on. Prioritize remediation actions without wasting efforts. ### 17. Kenna - Vulnerability Prioritization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Cisco Kenna Risk Score considers real-time factors and events occurring in the wild for each vulnerability. This score offers an approximation of the chances of exploitation, resulting in a ranked list that indicates the likelihood of a specific attack vector being used for exploitation. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Price: Licensing costs for Cisco Vulnerability Management is relatively high, which may not be suitable for organizations with budget constraints. Incase if you are targeting EMEIA region. Reporting Customization: While the platform offers robust reporting capabilities, some clients have found that customizing reports to meet specific organizational needs can be challenging. As you cannot add pie/custom graph/additional feild in their dashboard. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps organizations prioritize vulnerabilities based on factors like severity, asset value, and potential impact. This allows IT teams to focus on addressing the most critical vulnerabilities first. API Integration, Vulnerability Scanning Connector, Zero Day Vulnerability Intelligence, Remediation Analytics and Scoring are some of the key feature available in Cisco VM ### 18. Insightful and easy remediation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The scanner reports all vulnerabilities and pin points to the exact location. This information can be used to understand if the specific fail is part of the operating system, an application or a set of files you may have checked out from source to work with. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Nothing major at the moment. Customer support could be better. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** The scanner reports all vulnerabilities and pin points to the exact location. This information can be used to understand if the specific fail is part of the operating system, an application or a set of files you may have checked out from source to work with. ### 19. Best CVSS Score giver and security tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nagarjuna C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** I like Kenna as it provides accurate analysis and data of the infrastructure we use in out company **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** I sometimes feel the last seen can have frequent cadence and features can be also a little more integrated with console **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kenna is benefiting me a lot in terms of checking how vulnerable out infra is and by also offering solutions to our threats. ### 20. Great Tool for Vulnerability Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pradeep R. | Software Engineer 2, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Risk-based prioritization to help you focus on the vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk to the machine. Integration with other security tools Reporting and analytics: it provides the comprehensive reports and the analysis. Easy to use : the software is easy to use **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The user interface can be complex for some users. The sometimes the product can be slow to scan large environments and the Machines. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Vulnerabilities is my Virtual Machines are being reported and the possible fixs and also given. Due to which i am never blocked due to any mishappening in machine. ### 21. Good tracking of app server vulnerability issues and remediate those at on time. thank you. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kesava P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Good tracking of app server vulnerability issues and remediate those at on time. Alos, we are working using this Kenna tool to pull the all vulnerability list on time for our app servers, it's really helpful. thank you. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Nothing much dislike, but there are few parameters to improve by filtering the dashboard to display. It would be great if they can design any user friendly report to pull data. thank you. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good. ### 22. Helpful to ananlysis aboutt vulnerability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Janani R. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** It's very useful in undersatanding the vulnerabilities in servers, it shows different assest and what are the tools that has vulnerability from which we could resolve the issue **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Nothing about cisco vulnerability management **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to identify risk based vulnerability and resolve it ASAP. It has the fix as well for individual assest and tool being used in servers. By reducing the kenna score our servers are free from vulnerability which organization likes. ### 23. Great idea but confusing for new users **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Consolidate all security defect data sources and have a central dashboard is a great idea. The inbuilt connectors support is handy. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The dashboard is hard to understand for a new user to the platform. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a idea of all the vulnerabilities from all sources for a particular product. ### 24. Concise reporting for Vulnerability Management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The things I like most are the intuitive user interface that makes it seamless to find the information. The risk scores are an accurate representation of the vulnerability profile of organisation and easy enough to be shared with senior leadership. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Lack of ability to make customised reports that can be distributed to different service owners. Lack of asset level historical view of vulnerabilities and risk scores. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped in generating easy to understand risk scores and provided top fixes that can remediate the most critical vulnerabilities and ultimately reduce the risk scores. ### 25. Great visibility with easy-to-use one click functionality **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** It gives a detailed analysis of all vulnerabilities with a single click, very easy to use and identifies the most valuable assets with the most critical vulnerabilities so that you can focus and prioritize easily **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Integrating with different tools is sometimes end up with failure and depending on the number of assets and vulnerabilities it might took too long time to analyse which can lead to a zero-day vulnerability to be exposed **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to identify vulnerabilities and prioritize them so you can focus on the most valuable assets where vulnerabilities has the highest risk scores so that you eliminate risks in a short time ### 26. The best platform to manage Vulnerabilties **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** I like about Cisco Vulnerability Management that is so easy to check vulnerabilities to your company hostnames **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** I don't dislike anything about CIsco Vulnerability Management, is so easy to use and quick. The frequency of Use at my job is at any time, I always have the platfom open ready to check. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** At my job, I need to check vulnerabilities about the hosts of the company, so Kenna solves me a lot of problems so quick. ### 27. Excellent Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karthik P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Helps to managing the vulnerabilities and the report is really good **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Report format was not userfriendly and hard to read **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us to identify the number of vulnerabilities with right recommendation actions ### 28. smooth Vulnerability management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Time to time updates on the vulnerability of my system, directly gained form a portal. It helps save time and exactly know what and how many vulnerabilities are there. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Nothing much to dislike,maybe little improvement over direct emails to registered people with vulnerability will help ease the information direct communication for quicker resolution **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps identify the risks for my unit, identifying risk is not an easy task, but Kenna has helped alot for the same and greatly benefitted vulnerability mitigation ### 29. Good tool for Security related issue management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Napavan C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The dashboards are clear and communicate the threaths nicely **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The extraction of report can be processed faster **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kenna is solving problems related to rish, cvss, vulnerabilities, etc,. ### 30. Moonitoring **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tayyip G. | specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** User-friendliness, ease of use and fast switching between windows. My favourite feature is that it shows accurate reporting and vulnerability solutions accurately. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** I have been using it for about 1 year and I have not encountered any negative situation. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It detects and reports the security vulnerabilities in our system and shows solutions. ### 31. Easy track/fix vulnerability for whole environment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arjun N. | Senior Systems Development Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Ease of use and ease of retrieving vulnerabilities. Easy to build complex searches using built-in commands. Agent-less inventory scanning and most vulnerabilities have a link to fix **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Nothing really has put me off until now. Works as advertised. Maybe automated reporting and a way to apply fixes may have been added as an add-on for remediation purposes. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scanning the big and varied environment for vulnerabilities and easily finding what needs immediate remediation and what could wait. We found numerous vuln that we were completely unaware of. ### 32. Kenna Security - One of the best Risk Based VM tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** 1. Risk score mechanism 2. Dashboard 3. Option for Top 10 fixes 4.Various categorization such as Top Priority , Active NetBreaches, Easily Exploitable, Malware Exploitable , PopularTargets etc. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** 1. Queries are a bit cumbersome, and needs to be simpler. 2. Need a bit more transparencey in the Risk scoring to understand why a specific score is defined. 3. Scores take longer time to refresh (For eg. if a specific change is made, the report page may show immediate change in score, but once you come out of teh report the main dashboard will take much longer) **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy way to communicate to the stakeholders with good dashboards. Reduce communication burdens . Teams are more aware of the security issues and are receptive with clear dashboards. ### 33. Very On point Report **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arjun C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** I like how it exactly tells which machine has which vulnerability **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The extraction of report can be a bit better **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vulnerabilities ### 34. Best vulnerability reporting tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saikarthik H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Reports are fastly generated and completely on point. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The time taken to extract the reports sometimes. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vulnerabilities ### 35. Kenna.VM A great vulnerability management tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Kenna allows you to aggregate data from multiple sources to improve security risk management. I also like the SLAs associated with the infrastructure or group of assets to enhance the organization's remediation policy **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** I don't particularly appreciate that Kenna's whole point and data sources entirely depend on the vulnerability scanners and tools connected, making it more of a data aggregator than a vulnerability management tool. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Any organization uses various tools to scan its infrastructure, even within the same projects. Having the possibility to aggregate the vulnerability data from all solutions is a fundamental enabler of companies' security analysis. ### 36. Great Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** What I felt was helpful was the ability to see in more detail the vulnerabilities on my tenant ranging from end user machines to server level systems. Compared to competitors I feel CVM provided better focused results and easy to follow mitigations of found results. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Reporting needs some more focus and tightened up seems a bit noisy the way its presented now and how to generate the reports you are looking for. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Today its helping us mitigate systems that are missing critical windows/mac/linux updates and helping us pinpoint problem areas with deprecated software of end user machines. ### 37. Very intuitive and easy to use. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Egor M. | IT systems engineer , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Kenna Security gives me all the vulnerability details and possible remediations on one screen, dashboard customization is also very helpful. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** I would only love to be able to export the vulnerabilities list per asset to an external file like .pdf in order to contact assets owners. (There maybe is a feature like that but I didn't find it yet?) **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Showing me known (and updated) vulnerabilities on Windows servers. ### 38. Smart, practice and user-friendly security solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Halit Y. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** We use Kenna application in our company. It is very practical to see all security vulnerabilities in one screen. Also, the size of the vulnerability and the availability of solution options make our job easier. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Search and Filter screens are very complex **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It scans all systems and lists vulnerabilities on a single screen. In this way, we understand which channels are more vulnerable. Our performance has been increase. ### 39. The Best platform to manage Vulnerabilites **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Is so easy to check vulnerabilities to hostnames, IPs, domains, etc. I used it at any time. To addapt us to the integration was so easy. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Anything, is really easy and quick to use. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work checking vulnerabilities on hosts, IPs, domains, etc. ### 40. The platform's user-friendly interface simplifies vulnerability management by presenting information **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shreyansh P. | Graduate Engineer Trainee, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** One of the standout features of Kenna Security is its risk-based approach. By assigning risk scores to vulnerabilities based on factors such as the asset's importance, exploitability, and potential impact, Kenna Security enables security teams to address the most critical issues first. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Pricing, limited customization, integration challenges and complexity **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the standout features of Kenna Security is its risk-based approach. By assigning risk scores to vulnerabilities based on factors such as the asset's importance, exploitability, and potential impact, Kenna Security enables security teams to address the most critical issues first. ### 41. Good VM product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** The user interface is extremely easy to nagivate. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** I had trouble finding the asset groups I was looking for. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding security vulnerabilties related to the network printers I manage. This helps us to make sure we are up-to-date on all the latest security protocols. ### 42. More than expected **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** We get the vulnerabilities list in a timely manner which is helpful for us to review and fix to avoid the security incidents **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Provided list of vulnerabilities is not resolved in a timely manner which are creating the confusion for us. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Resolving the issues which related articles in Kenna are helpful ### 43. Vernability manager **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amar N. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Leading product in securities from risk based prioritisation pioneer to uniting with a leader in security, as keena's flagship product is vurnability management **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** I did not use it on day to day basis so its hard to say about dislikes but surly is one of leading products in security as its pla cisco product so appreciate it **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security hotspots, vernabilities in systems, depreciation, neat code , best practices, clean code, smart contract, code duplicates and many more similar point that helps ### 44. Works well for what we use it for **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Advanced prioritization based on impact and exploitability Risk-focused approach for tailored vulnerability management Seamless integration with threat intelligence feeds Actionable insights with remediation guidance Automated workflows for efficiency **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Occasional inaccuracies in risk assessment Some parts of the interface not intuitive **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Identifying vulnerabilities that need mitigating in our environment. ### 45. Its an awesome tool to get rid of vulnerabilities **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Its most valuable tool to fix Vulnerability, getting exact details to to fix the issue and make it secure more **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Not dislike at all, but sometime noticed false positive report for some values **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are getting Kenna report every week, month and we are happy to get the details and fixing the issue ### 46. No late surprises after started using Cisco vulnerability management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thiagu M. | Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** constantly updating the coverage of vulnerabilities so that we remain secure **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** maybe solution to fix the listed the vulnerability can be given more detailed **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** by constantly scanning the resources vulnerabilities are caught early and regularly so that we don't have any last minute panic during release on important assests ### 47. A fantastic tool to help you focus on the vulnerabilities that matter most **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maxwell P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Its risk-scoring algorithm is a powerful tool that allows us to focus our limited resources on remediating the vulnerabilities that pose the most significant risk to our organization **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** We have been working with it for years and have experienced quite a bit of instability when gathering data through the API **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most other threat-scoring tools leave too many things as a "top priority". Kenna narrows it down to a manageable subset that allows us to get the biggest bang for our buck as we work to protect our company's assets. ### 48. Does a great job organizing, classifying, and reporting on vulnerabilities and assets **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** I really like the dashboards, risk multiplier, and actions that can be taken easily within the app. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** It requires some effort setting up the integrations, but it's to be expected. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us see both a bird's eye view and detailed view of our vulnerabilities. ### 49. Cisco Vulnerability Management keeps us on our toes! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Excellent visibility par none for our environment, constantly providing us with insight into threats **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Very bloated and can be overwhelming, too much data **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us to be aware of risks on all our systems ### 50. Easy to use. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Easy to use. and get what needs to be updated based on scores. **What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)?** Nothing is see as of now. Will update again. **What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fixing high scores 1st to remidiate high vulneribility ## Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) Discussions - [How does score Algorithm works and how accurate is it ? Can it push fixes remotely ? it will make it easier for admins](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-score-algorithm-works-and-how-accurate-is-it-can-it-push-fixes-remotely-it-will-make-it-easier-for-admins) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What certifications does Kenna offer to its users and are there any User Groups we can join?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-certifications-does-kenna-offer-to-its-users-and-are-there-any-user-groups-we-can-join) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is the best way to onboard new user/hire to leverage the Kenna tool to its fullest ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/33930-what-is-the-best-way-to-onboard-new-user-hire-to-leverage-the-kenna-tool-to-its-fullest) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Training - is there training that I can take to be more efficient with this tool?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/32207-training-is-there-training-that-i-can-take-to-be-more-efficient-with-this-tool) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What does Kenna Security do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-kenna-security-do) - 1 comment - [View Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/cisco-vulnerability-management-formerly-kenna-vm/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-13+08%3A42%3A18+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=32f28e48-67cf-4bd2-acf3-171245e9907d&secure%5Btoken%5D=5a8e036a42c3ea42170b7dc0106a5c0a46f9af8ced7563267d856848a41edf86&format=llm_user) ## Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) Features **Risk Analysis** - Risk Scoring - Reporting - Risk-Prioritization **Vulnerability Assesment** - Vulnerability Scanning - Vulnerability Intelligence - Contextual Data - Dashboards **Automation** - Automated Remediation - Workflow Automation - Security Testing - Test Automation ## Top Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) Alternatives - [Tenable Vulnerability Management](https://www.g2.com/products/tenable-vulnerability-management/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (113 reviews) - [InsightVM (Nexpose)](https://www.g2.com/products/insightvm-nexpose/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (69 reviews) - [Nucleus](https://www.g2.com/products/nucleus-security-inc-nucleus/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (31 reviews)