Migrating from Cisco Vulnerability Management (Kenna) to Seconize DeRisk Center

Cisco’s announced end-of-sale and end-of-life timelines for Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM), Vulnerability Intelligence, and the Application Security module create a critical transition point for organizations that rely on these platforms for vulnerability prioritization and cyber risk reporting.

Seconize DeRisk Center is designed to support this transition end-to-end—not as a point replacement, but as a unified Cyber GRC platform that brings together vulnerability management, risk governance, compliance audits, third-party risk, workflows, and reporting into a single system of record.

A Proven, Analyst-Recognized Platform

Seconize DeRisk Center is rated 4.4 out of 5 on Gartner Peer Insights in the Compliance Monitoring category, based on customer reviews from regulated and enterprise environments. This reflects real-world adoption by organizations that require both operational depth and audit defensibility.

Rather than operating as a standalone vulnerability scoring engine, DeRisk Center embeds vulnerability management into a broader Cyber GRC operating model, aligning technical findings with business risk, regulatory obligations, and executive oversight.

End-to-End Vulnerability Lifecycle Management

DeRisk Center manages vulnerabilities across their entire lifecycle, ensuring continuity from discovery to closure:

Automated ingestion from scanners and infrastructure sources

Validation, deduplication, and false-positive handling

Risk-based prioritization aligned to asset criticality and exposure

Remediation tracking with ownership, SLAs, and evidence

Re-verification and formal closure

This lifecycle-centric approach ensures vulnerabilities are not just identified, but governed, measured, and auditable—a key requirement for enterprises transitioning away from Kenna-centric workflows.

Built-In Workflows — No External Ticketing or Workflow Tools Required

Unlike traditional vulnerability platforms that depend heavily on external tools (Jira, ServiceNow, or custom workflow engines), DeRisk Center includes native issue management and workflow orchestration.

Organizations can:

Assign remediation tasks directly within the platform

Track ownership, status, SLA breaches, and approvals

Collaborate across Security, IT, Application, and GRC teams

Maintain a complete audit trail for every action

This eliminates the need for separate ticketing systems, workflow tools, or manual spreadsheet tracking, reducing tool sprawl and operational complexity. DeRisk Center becomes the single execution layer for cyber risk management.

Contextual Scoring and Risk Prioritization

DeRisk Center enables context-aware vulnerability prioritization, going beyond static scoring models. Risk evaluation can incorporate:

Asset business criticality and classification

Environment context (production, staging, internal, external)

Threat and exploit context where applicable

Compensating controls and accepted risks

This allows teams to focus remediation efforts on vulnerabilities that materially impact business risk, rather than chasing volume-driven severity scores.

First-Class Exception Management

Exception handling is treated as a governed and auditable process, not an informal override.

DeRisk Center provides structured exception management across:

Vulnerabilities (risk acceptance, deferment, false positives)

Audit observations and audit tasks

Policy and control deviations

Each exception includes justification, approvals, validity periods, review cycles, and supporting evidence—ensuring risk acceptance is explicit, time-bound, and defensible to auditors, regulators, and internal risk committees.

Global and Regional Compliance Reporting — Built In

Beyond vulnerability management, DeRisk Center supports global and region-specific compliance reporting within the same platform.

Organizations can manage and report against:

Global standards (ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, CIS, etc.)

Regional and regulatory frameworks (RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, CERT-In, GDPR, DPDP Act, and more)

Industry-specific mandates and customer-driven audits

Vulnerabilities, remediation actions, exceptions, and evidence are directly linked to compliance controls, enabling:

Real-time compliance posture visibility

Audit-ready evidence generation

Consistent reporting across internal, regulatory, and third-party audits

This unification significantly reduces the effort required to reconcile security operations with compliance obligations.

One Platform, One System of Record

For organizations looking to consolidate tools post-Cisco EoL, DeRisk Center replaces:

Standalone vulnerability management tools

External ticketing and workflow systems for remediation tracking

Separate audit management and compliance reporting tools

The result is a single platform covering:

Vulnerability and risk management

Workflow execution and issue tracking

Exception governance

Global and regional compliance reporting

Executive and audit-ready dashboards

Structured Migration Support from Seconize

Seconize supports migrations from Cisco/Kenna through a structured, low-risk approach:

Discovery and assessment of existing Kenna data, scoring logic, workflows, and reports
Data and workflow mapping to preserve historical context and operational continuity
Integration and automation setup for scanners, infrastructure, and evidence sources
Parallel run and controlled cutover, ensuring KPI and reporting parity

The focus is not just replacement, but measurable improvement in execution efficiency, risk clarity, and audit readiness.

Planning your transition from Cisco Vulnerability Management?

Seconize DeRisk Center helps organizations migrate with confidence—without adding new tools—by delivering end-to-end vulnerability, workflow, exception, and compliance lifecycle management in a single platform.

→ Request a migration assessment

→ Schedule a DeRisk Center demo

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