Navigating Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna VM) End-of-Life (EOL)
Kenna was designed as a vulnerability aggregation layer, focused primarily on consolidating scanner data. Vulnerability aggregation answered a 2018 problem, but by 2026 it no longer keeps pace with how cyber risk dynamically spans cloud, applications, identity, and external attack surfaces—requiring continuous risk‑based prioritization and fast, automated remediation. As attack surfaces expanded, incremental add-ons struggled to keep pace, highlighting the limits of siloed extensions versus a natively integrated exposure management approach.
As Kenna’s vulnerability‑centric model reaches its limits, organizations need a platform built for cyber risk management across all attack surfaces, one that allows you to stay ahead of attackers using AI to exploit exposures faster than ever before. Qualys delivers the visibility, context, and operational execution required to turn exposure insight into measurable risk reduction.
Aggregate
findings for
40% faster
risk identification across your siloed security tools
Prioritize
critical risks
85% quicker
using TruRisk™ Score and business context for financial impact
Remediate
risks
50% swifter
with automated patching, IT tickets, & real-time alerts.
Why Exposure-Focused Risk Management Matters
Comprehensive visibility
Discover and track every asset across cloud, containers, APIs, SaaS, identity (human and non-human), and traditional infrastructure (IP-based and non-IP-based) in a unified view. You can’t manage exposure on assets you don’t know exist.
Contextual prioritization
Step away from the black-box risk scoring to a flexible and customizable approach that allows you to surface the right risk signals and suppress the noise.
Validation and verification
Confirm exposures are exploitable in your configuration and that remediation indeed closed the gap. Trust, but verify—at scale.
Operational integration
Connect exposure insights directly to natively integrated remediation workflows, patch management, and configuration tools. Insight without action is just expensive reporting.
Business-focused reporting
Quantify risk in business terms executives understand, financial exposure, operational impact, and resilience metrics — not CVE counts and severity scores.
How Qualys compares to Cisco/Kenna VM
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 Primary FocusOptimized risk operations by measuring, communicating, and eliminating cyber risk across all attack surfaces. |  Primary FocusVulnerability‑centric risk scoring with prioritization based on CVE severity and limited threat intelligence | |
Data AggregationIngests and correlates telemetry across VM, cloud ttainer security, identity, and third‑party sources |  Data AggregationPrimarily from traditional vulnerability scanners | |
Attack Surface CoverageHolistic- infrastructure, cloud, containers, applications, APIs and external attack surface | Attack Surface CoverageInfrastructure‑centric; limited native cloud and AppSec coverage | |
Risk PrioritizationTruRisk™ model combining exploitability, 25+ sources of threat intelligence, asset criticality, business context, and environmental factors |  Risk PrioritizationEPSS‑driven likelihood + severity‑based prioritization | |
Business ContextContextual enrichment that ties threat impact to quantified business risk | Business ContextLimited environmental and business context | |
Exploit ValidationValidate exploitability and verify remediation effectiveness | Exploit ValidationRelies on external intelligence and assumptions | |
Remediation ApproachOrchestrated remediation with native capabilities (patching, mitigations, compensating controls) with outcome tracking | Remediation ApproachTicket‑centric workflows | |
Executive ReportingBusiness‑focused reporting with risk highlighted in operational and financial terms | Executive ReportingVulnerability and score‑based views |
De-risk your business with the world's #1 cloud-based Risk Operations Center
Measure Risk with Complete Asset Visibility
Unify inventory across all environments to reveal hidden exposures and assess risk posture in real time.
Communicate Risk with Context and Clarity
Enrich and normalize risk data with threat intel and business context to drive confident, board-ready reporting.
Eliminate Critical Risk with Intelligent Automation
Prioritize and remediate threats using TruRisk™ scoring and AI-driven workflows for faster, smarter action.
Scale with Confidence Across Your Enterprise
Seamlessly adapt to growing infrastructure and evolving threats—without adding operational complexity.
Transforming Modern Cybersecurity Risk Management
Discover how the ROC helps organizations unify teams, streamline remediation, and gain continuous visibility across the full attack surface. Download the whitepaper to learn more.