What is Tenable?
Tenable was founded in 2002 by Renaud Deraison (creator of the Nessus vulnerability scanner), Ron Gula and Jack Huffard, and is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. Its product line spans the Nessus scanner, Tenable Vulnerability Management, and the Tenable One exposure management platform, which adds cloud, identity and attack-surface context on top of vulnerability data. Tenable trades on Nasdaq under the ticker TENB.
Tenable describes Tenable One as an exposure management platform that helps organizations gain broad attack surface visibility, prevent attacks and communicate cyber risk. Its product domains are AI Exposure, Vulnerability Management, Web App Scanning, Cloud Exposure, Identity Exposure, OT Exposure, Attack Surface Management and Connectors. Nessus can be deployed on a variety of platforms, including Raspberry Pi, and Tenable says it is trusted by tens of thousands of organizations with over 4 million downloads worldwide.
Public pricing is available for Nessus and some Tenable One products, while Tenable One Exposure Management, Cloud Exposure and Security Center are sold through a customized quote. Tenable says it helps modern organizations protect what matters most and reduce risk at scale for more than 40,000 customers worldwide.
Key capabilities
- Scanning Nessus and Tenable Vulnerability Management discover and assess vulnerabilities on in-scope assets.
- Prioritization Threat-based scoring and search help sort remediation queues.
- Exposure management Tenable One adds cloud, identity and attack-path context for organizations licensing that platform.
Where Tenable fits
- Nessus scanning Find flaws, missing patches and misconfigurations across operating systems, devices and apps.
- Scoring and audits Vulnerability scoring with CVSS v4, EPSS and VPR, plus configuration, compliance and security audits.
- Vulnerability management Tenable One Vulnerability Management unifies vulnerability data to pinpoint critical exposures and speed up remediation.
- Web application scanning Automated vulnerability scanning for web applications, listed as the Web App Scanning domain of Tenable One.
- Exposure management Exposure management across IT, cloud and OT, including a converged OT/IT security solution.
- Attack surface Visibility into internet-connected assets to remove blind spots and unknown sources of risk.
- Patch management Automated patch correlation and autonomous patching to accelerate remediation.
- Cloud and identity Cloud Exposure and Identity Exposure are listed as separate product domains.
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