What Tenable Does
Tenable offers a range of products and services designed to help organizations identify, assess, and mitigate cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The platform is built to provide visibility, prioritize efforts, and communicate cyber risk effectively to support optimal business performance.
Key Features and Functionality
Vulnerability Management
Tenable’s core offering is its Vulnerability Management solution, which includes tools like Tenable Nessus, Tenable Nessus Agent, and Tenable Nessus Network Monitor. These tools enable automated vulnerability scanning to identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and security weaknesses in networks, systems, and applications.
Asset Inventory and Discovery
Tenable solutions help maintain a comprehensive asset inventory, providing visibility into devices, servers, applications, and cloud resources. This includes active scanning, passive monitoring, and the use of agents to discover and profile assets within an organization’s environment.
Threat Detection and Incident Response
Tenable enhances threat detection through continuous monitoring of network traffic and behavior, identifying suspicious activities and potential breaches. The platform integrates with incident response processes to help organizations investigate, respond to, and mitigate security incidents.
Patch Management
Tenable Patch Management is a module that pairs vulnerability prioritization with autonomous patch functionality. It automates the correlation between vulnerabilities and the most up-to-date remediation actions, streamlining the process of deploying patches and reducing the gap between vulnerability identification and remediation.
Compliance Assessment
Tenable enables organizations to assess their compliance with various security standards and regulations. It conducts compliance scans and generates reports to help organizations meet regulatory requirements.
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Tenable Cloud Security analyzes cloud infrastructure for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, securing cloud resources, container images, and cloud assets. It also includes Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security.
Container Security
Tenable Container Security stores and scans container images during the build process, ensuring that every container reaching production is secure and compliant with enterprise policies. It integrates with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) systems.
Web Application Scanning
Tenable Web App Scanning provides comprehensive vulnerability scanning for modern web applications, including those built with HTML5 and AJAX frameworks. This ensures accurate vulnerability coverage with minimal false positives and negatives.
Operational Technology (OT) Security
Tenable OT Security offers protection for industrial control networks from cyber threats, malicious insiders, and human error. It provides unmatched visibility into converged IT/OT operations and leading security capabilities.
Identity and Access Management
Tenable’s solutions include identity exposure management, helping organizations find and fix exposures across their end-to-end identity environment to prevent identity-based attacks.
Analytics and Visualization
Tenable Lumin is a visualization, analytics, and measurement solution that allows organizations to visualize their cyber risk, track risk reduction over time, and benchmark against industry peers.
Integration and API
Tenable solutions are designed to integrate with other security tools, SIEM platforms, and third-party services. The platform offers a fully documented API and pre-built integrations to enhance context and analysis.
Tenable One Exposure Management Platform
Tenable One is an end-to-end exposure management platform that combines the broadest vulnerability coverage with comprehensive analytics to prioritize actions and communicate cyber risk. It translates technical asset, vulnerability, and threat data into clear business insights and actionable intelligence.
In summary, Tenable provides a robust suite of cybersecurity solutions that help organizations gain comprehensive visibility into their attack surface, prioritize and mitigate vulnerabilities, ensure compliance, and enhance overall cybersecurity posture.