Upgrade from Kenna Security
A Buyer’s Guide to Evaluating Your Next Exposure Management Platform
Cisco has announced the end of life for Cisco Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Intelligence, and the Application Security Module (formerly Kenna.VM, Kenna.VI, and AppSec). While support continues until 30 June 2028, the platform has already reached end of sale and end of contract renewals.
Now is the time for Kenna customers to evaluate their long-term strategy and consider a transition path building on the scanner-independent foundation Kenna championed in delivering their risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM).
In this guide, you’ll find:
- The architectural case for keeping vulnerability governance independent from any single scanner
- A checklist of what to look for in your next Exposure Management platform
- A capability-by-capability comparison between Kenna Security and ArmorCode
- Outcomes that prove why Kenna customers are choosing ArmorCode
What Happens to Kenna Customers Now That Cisco Has End-of-Lifed Kenna.VM?
Cisco’s decision to end-of-life Kenna Vulnerability Management, Kenna Vulnerability Intelligence, and the AppSec Module closes a chapter in vulnerability management, but it doesn’t have to close the architectural approach Kenna customers built their programs around. This guide breaks down why the principle behind Kenna (governance that sits above scanners, not inside one) still holds, and how ArmorCode carries that principle forward at enterprise scale.
Should Kenna Customers Move to a Scanner Platform’s Built-In RBVM?
Kenna customers should weigh scanner-platform RBVM carefully before consolidating. Scanner vendors like Tenable and Qualys tend to prioritize findings from their own detection engines due to tight coupling between detection and risk logic – reintroducing the vendor bias Kenna customers originally moved away from. Independent platforms normalize and prioritize findings equally across every scanning tool in the stack, preserving the vendor-agnostic governance model Kenna customers chose in the first place.
The question is not whether scanner platforms do good work. It is whether folding governance into scanning still serves a program’s long-term needs and whether the platform you choose can govern the attack surface that actually exists today, not the one that existed when Kenna was built.
How Does ArmorCode Deliver Parity With Kenna’s Core RBVM Capabilities?
ArmorCode matches Kenna across scanner-agnostic ingestion, risk-based prioritization beyond CVSS, centralized visibility and reporting, and SLA-driven remediation workflows. Customers get the same foundational model Kenna pioneered, now built for environments that span infrastructure, cloud, containers, code, CI/CD, and software supply chain. Adaptive Risk Scoring combines EPSS, CISA KEV, exploitability data, asset criticality, and business context.
What Does ArmorCode Add Beyond Kenna’s Original Vision?
Kenna pioneered Risk-Based Vulnerability Management by helping organizations prioritize vulnerabilities more effectively. ArmorCode builds on that foundation with an Agentic Control Plane for Unified Exposure Management, extending independent governance across today’s modern attack surface.
ArmorCode goes beyond Kenna by delivering:
- Unified Exposure Management platform that unifies, prioritizes, and remediates risk across applications, code, cloud, infrastructure, software supply chains, and AI
- Anya AI with purpose-built AI agents that assess, prioritize, explain, and accelerate remediation using organizational context from the Context Risk Graph.
- Software Supply Chain Security with SBOM visibility, open-source dependency analysis, third-party component tracking, and rapid assessment of emerging supply chain vulnerabilities.
- AI Exposure Management (AIEM) that discovers, governs, and manages enterprise AI usage by providing visibility into AI tools, models, agents, and AI-generated code,
- Remediation orchestration that automates ownership assignment, workflow execution, bidirectional ticket synchronization, and SLA tracking to reduce Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR).
How Many Integrations Does ArmorCode Support for Migrating Kenna Data and Workflows?
ArmorCode supports 400+ pre-built, enterprise-grade integrations with new ones added continuously, plus multiple ingestion paths including API, file upload, and auto-discovery. Kenna customers who invested in custom integrations to unify diverse tooling can offload much of that maintenance burden during migration.
How Does ArmorCode Extend RBVM Into Unified Exposure Management?
ArmorCode extends RBVM into Unified Vulnerability Management, Unified Exposure Management, and Continuous Threat Exposure Management, correlating exploitable and reachable exposures across vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, identity, and software supply chain. This gives Kenna customers a program that scales with the environment instead of one built for a single use case.
Is There Any Offer for Kenna Customers Migrating to ArmorCode?
Yes. Eligible Kenna customers can receive 3 years of ArmorCode for the price of 2. The program includes guided migration, training, complimentary onboarding services, and a risk-free switch guarantee. Contact us to determine your eligibility.
Frequently Asked Questions About the Kenna End-of-Life Transition
Q: What is reaching end of life at Cisco?
A: Cisco Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Intelligence, and Application Security Module (formerly Kenna.VM, Kenna.VI, and AppSec) are all end of life. End of sale was March 10, 2026. End of renewal was June 11, 2026. All support ends June 30, 2028. Cisco has confirmed there is no replacement available within its portfolio.
Q: Why did Kenna customers originally choose the platform?
A: Kenna customers adopted the platform for vendor-agnostic data ingestion, risk-based prioritization independent of scanner bias, and a centralized system of record for remediation decisions. ArmorCode was built on the same architectural principles.
Q: What’s the risk of moving RBVM into a scanner platform?
A: Scanner platforms tend to prioritize findings from their own detection engines due to tight coupling between detection and risk logic, which reintroduces the vendor bias Kenna customers originally moved away from.
Q: How many integrations does ArmorCode offer for a Kenna migration?
A: ArmorCode offers 400+ native, enterprise-grade integrations with continuous additions and multiple ingestion methods. Kenna’s connector library is permanently frozen, no new connectors, no schema updates, no new vendor support of any kind before end of life.