Cisco Kenna Security Vulnerability Management Licenses
Cisco Kenna Security licenses provide essential vulnerability management capabilities, enabling proactive threat identification and remediation for your business network.
- Enable Proactive Defense: Access advanced tools to identify and prioritize security vulnerabilities before they are exploited.
- Streamline Operations: Automate vulnerability assessment processes, reducing manual effort and improving team efficiency.
- Ensure Compliance: Meet regulatory requirements and industry standards by maintaining a clear understanding of your security landscape.
- Optimize Security Spend: Focus resources on the most critical risks, ensuring effective allocation of your security budget.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides platform software licenses for Cisco's Kenna Security platform, specifically for vulnerability management. It unlocks advanced capabilities designed to help businesses identify, assess, and remediate security weaknesses within their IT environment.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, these licenses integrate into existing security frameworks to provide continuous visibility and actionable intelligence on potential threats, supporting a robust security posture without enterprise-level overhead.
- Advanced Vulnerability Detection: Uncover a wide range of security flaws across your digital assets.
- Prioritization Engine: Automatically rank vulnerabilities based on exploitability and business impact.
- Remediation Workflow: Facilitate efficient assignment and tracking of remediation tasks.
- Reporting and Analytics: Generate clear, concise reports for stakeholders and compliance audits.
- Continuous Monitoring: Maintain ongoing visibility into your security posture and evolving threat landscape.
Empower your IT team with specialized tools to manage vulnerabilities effectively, ensuring a more secure and compliant business operation.
What This Enables
Enable Continuous Vulnerability Assessment
Enable teams to continuously scan and identify security vulnerabilities across their entire IT infrastructure. This proactive approach helps prevent potential security incidents by addressing weaknesses before they can be exploited.
cloud-hosted applications, on-premises servers, hybrid cloud environments, managed IT services
Streamline Security Prioritization
Streamline the process of prioritizing vulnerabilities based on real-world exploitability and business impact. This ensures that security teams focus their limited resources on the most critical threats first.
complex network architectures, multi-cloud deployments, distributed workforces, regulatory compliance
Automate Remediation Workflows
Automate the assignment and tracking of vulnerability remediation tasks to the appropriate teams. This accelerates the patching and mitigation process, reducing the window of exposure for critical systems.
IT operations management, security operations centers, DevOps pipelines, change management processes
Key Features
Vulnerability Prioritization Engine
Focuses security efforts on the most critical risks by analyzing exploitability and business impact, reducing wasted effort.
Automated Scanning and Assessment
Provides continuous visibility into the security posture by regularly identifying new vulnerabilities across the IT environment.
Remediation Workflow Management
Facilitates efficient assignment and tracking of remediation tasks, accelerating the patching process and minimizing exposure.
Integration Capabilities
Connects with existing security tools and IT systems to provide a unified view of vulnerabilities and streamline operations.
Actionable Intelligence and Reporting
Delivers clear, concise reports and insights that enable informed decision-making for security strategy and resource allocation.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector faces stringent regulatory compliance requirements and high stakes for data security, making robust vulnerability management essential to prevent breaches and maintain customer trust.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Protecting sensitive patient data (PHI) is paramount, and healthcare organizations must adhere to strict regulations like HIPAA, necessitating continuous vulnerability assessment and remediation.
Legal & Professional Services
Firms handle confidential client information and are prime targets for cyberattacks; effective vulnerability management is critical to safeguard sensitive data and maintain client confidentiality.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Increasingly connected industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) environments require diligent vulnerability management to prevent disruptions and ensure operational continuity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Kenna Security?
Cisco Kenna Security is a cloud-based platform that helps organizations manage and prioritize their security vulnerabilities. It provides visibility, analytics, and workflow automation to reduce risk.
What does this license enable?
This license enables the use of Cisco Kenna Security's vulnerability management features. It allows your organization to identify, assess, prioritize, and track the remediation of security weaknesses within your IT environment.
Is this a hardware or software license?
This is a software license, specifically a subscription for the Cisco Kenna Security platform. It grants access to the platform's capabilities for a defined term.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.