--- title: Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) Reviews meta\_title: 'Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 217 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 217 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Vulnerability Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/vulnerability-management --- # Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) but has limited features. Are you part of the Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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. * * * Seller [Cisco](https://www.g2.com/sellers/cisco) Discussions [Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) Community](https://www.g2.com/products/cisco-vulnerability-management-formerly-kenna-vm/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Stacy Mezzetta De Cossio Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months ### Return on Investment 22 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/cisco-vulnerability-management-formerly-kenna-vm/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Tenable Vulnerability Management](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tenable Vulnerability Management") Tenable Vulnerability Management 4.5/5(125) ](https://www.g2.com/products/tenable-vulnerability-management/reviews) [ ![InsightVM (Nexpose)](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "InsightVM (Nexpose)") InsightVM (Nexpose) 4.4/5(79) ](https://www.g2.com/products/insightvm-nexpose/reviews) [ ![Nucleus](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nucleus") Nucleus 4.5/5(32) ](https://www.g2.com/products/nucleus-security-inc-nucleus/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/cisco-vulnerability-management-formerly-kenna-vm/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 217 real user reviews. Implementation Time 3 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Arjun N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Arjun N.") AN Arjun N. Senior Systems Development Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/18/2023 "Easy track/fix vulnerability for whole environment" 4.5/5 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") AF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/1/2023 "Kenna Security - One of the best Risk Based VM tool" 4/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 8/1/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller AC Arjun C. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/25/2023 "Very On point Report" 5/5 What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)? I like how it exactly tells which machine has which vulnerability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)? The extraction of report can be a bit better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you? Vulnerabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller SH Saikarthik H. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/26/2023 "Best vulnerability reporting tool" 4/5 What do you like best about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)? Reports are fastly generated and completely on point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)? The time taken to extract the reports sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) solving and how is that benefiting you? Vulnerabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Computer & Network Security](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer & Network Security") CC Verified User in Computer & Network Security Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/21/2023 "Kenna.VM A great vulnerability management tool" 4/5 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Marketing and Advertising](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Marketing and Advertising") AM Verified User in Marketing and Advertising Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/1/2023 "Great Experience" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Egor M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Egor M.") EM Egor M. IT systems engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/30/2023 "Very intuitive and easy to use." 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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?) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller HY Halit Y. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/8/2023 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Smart, practice and user-friendly security solution" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)? Search and Filter screens are very complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") AB Verified User in Banking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/25/2023 "The Best platform to manage Vulnerabilites" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)? Anything, is really easy and quick to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Shreyansh P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shreyansh P.") SP Shreyansh P. Graduate Engineer Trainee Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/15/2023 "The platform's user-friendly interface simplifies vulnerability management by presenting information" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)? Pricing, limited customization, integration challenges and complexity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) ](https://www.g2.com/products/cisco-vulnerability-management-formerly-kenna-vm/discussions/new) ![Mohamed Jad A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mohamed Jad A.") MA Mohamed Jad Amraoui • Last activity almost 5 years ago How does score Algorithm works and how accurate is it ? 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