Solution Comparison

Brinqa vs Cisco Vulnerability Management (Kenna Security)

See why customers choose Brinqa over Cisco to manage cyber risk across their attack surface.

Feature Comparison

Attack Surface Coverage

Risk Scoring

Automated Remediation

Dashboards & Reporting

Asset Management

Attack Surface Coverage

Brinqa

✅  Full attack surface coverage that spans all security tools (infrastructure, AppSec, cloud security & more)
✅  Easily connect to hundreds of data sources to leverage the tools & systems you’re already using
✅  Builds custom data connectors for free

Cisco

❌  Doesn’t incorporate security findings outside of traditional infrastructure
❌  Lists less than 60 data connectors on their website

Risk Scoring

Brinqa

✅  Risk scores are transparent and personalized to your business
✅  Transforms how your organization prioritizes risk with scores that incorporate business context
✅  Remediation prioritization your stakeholders trust

Cisco

❌  One-size-fits-all risk scores don’t reflect your business priorities
❌  Stakeholders question risk scores and don’t take action

Automated Remediation

Brinqa

✅  Brinqa automatically creates remediation tickets, assigns ownership, track SLAs & groups vulnerabilities for faster remediation
✅  Bi-directionally syncs with dev/IT project management tools (Jira, ServiceNow, etc.) for closed loop remediation tracking

Cisco

❌  No automated remediation. For each issue, you must right click to create a remediation ticket.

Dashboards & Reporting

Brinqa

✅  Personalize to audience (Executive, IT/Dev remediation owner, security)
✅  Data from entire attack surface is available (infrastructure, AppSec, cloud security & more)
✅  Highly configurable to easily customize dashboards & reports

Cisco

❌  Lacks customization & no business context for executive audiences
❌  Limited data provides narrow view of attack surface

Asset Management

Brinqa

✅  Provides a unified asset inventory that consolidates and reconciles multiple data sources to improve security control coverage and establish definitive asset ownership
✅  Supports 3x more data sources across wider range of categories including infrastructure, AppSec & cloud security tools

Cisco

❌  Poor attack surface coverage and data accuracy problems that limit usefulness
❌  Supports fewer data sources & is slow to add new ones

  • By leveraging Brinqa, we achieved a 90% reduction in critical vulnerabilities and a 75% reduction in high vulnerabilities!

    Jim Desmond, Chief Security Officer, Asurion

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