Author Archives: Karim Toubba

About Karim Toubba

Karim is the CEO Of Kenna.

Moving to a Risk-Based Approach: Kenna’s New Funding

Karim Toubba December 8, 2016

It’s been an exciting time at Kenna; we recently announced that we closed our Series B funding, a $15M round led by PeakSpan Capital. It’s a milestone that means far less to me in regards to money than it does in regards to the validation of our perspective on security and risk. When Kenna first began this journey, our point-of-view… Read more »

The 2016 DBIR

Karim Toubba May 11, 2016

This month Kenna Security participated in the Verizon data breach report, and for the second year running we used our data to drive the perspective of the vulnerability section. Since then there have been some questions and criticisms of a specific subset of the data referenced in a footnote in the vulnerability section – namely the top 10 vulnerability list…. Read more »

Say Hello to Kenna

Karim Toubba August 4, 2015

Our company has officially changed its name from Risk I/O to Kenna. Why the change? The name “Kenna” is a play on the Middle English verb “to ken,” or “to know.” And that’s what we strive to give our customers—the ability to know what to prioritize and remediate, as well as a way to understand their full risk landscape. Kenna… Read more »

Laying the Foundation for Change

Karim Toubba October 14, 2014

This blog post was written by new CEO of Risk I/O, Karim Toubba. You can read more about our new CEO announcement here. I have always been drawn to solving substantive problems that lay the foundation for change, particularly in the security industry. To date, much has been written about the sophistication of the hacker and even the most casual news… Read more »