Navigating Change: Evolving Your Exposure Management Strategy in a Post-Kenna World with Qualys

This report outlines Cisco’s discontinuation of its Kenna-based Vulnerability Management offering (with support ending by June 2028) and argues that traditional risk-based vulnerability management is no longer sufficient. It promotes exposure assessment platforms and a Risk Operations Center (ROC) model that unifies continuous exposure visibility, contextual prioritization, validation, and integrated remediation. The piece positions Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) as the engine for this approach, emphasizing comprehensive asset visibility, enriched risk scoring, orchestration of remediation, and business-aligned reporting to drive measurable risk reduction.