Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) Reviews & Product Details

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.

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Languages Supported

English

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

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Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

22 months

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Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) Reviews FAQs

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Last updated: Nov 04, 2026

What is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM), and what problem is it built to solve?

Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) brings vulnerability information from different sources into a shared view of organizational risk. Teams use it to prioritize remediation and focus attention on the vulnerabilities and assets that matter most.

What languages does Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) support?

Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) supports 1 language: English.

What company sizes and industries is Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) the best fit for?

Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) appears most often in larger organizations, with use also represented in mid-market and small businesses. The industries with the strongest presence include technology and financial services.

How long does it take to implement Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) across a team?

Implementation is most commonly reported to take 1–3 months, though the time can vary with the environment and setup.

What customer support options does Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

The support experience is mixed: users describe helpful, responsive assistance, while others report slow responses or difficulty getting technical issues resolved. Support-related feedback also includes praise for help with setup and product guidance.

What features or capabilities could make Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) even more useful?

A few improvements could make Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) more efficient to use, especially for teams handling large or complex environments.

More customizable reports and exports, including clearer ways to tailor report content for different teams.
Simpler search and filtering, with easier query building and more intuitive navigation.
Faster data refreshes and clearer historical views of asset and vulnerability changes.
Broader, more reliable integrations and smoother data ingestion from connected tools.

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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.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 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, Popular Targets 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 need to be simpler.

2. Need a bit more transparency in the Risk scoring to understand why a specific score is defined.

3. Scores take longer time to refresh (For example, if a specific change is made, the report page may show immediate change in score, but once you exit the report, the main dashboard will take much longer). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/25/2023

"The Best platform to manage Vulnerabilities"

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 adapt 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.

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?