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Tenable Product Update Newsletter - September 2026
Welcome to your monthly round-up of the latest Tenable product updates, platform enhancements, and community news. This month, we’re bringing frontier AI reasoning into exposure management, deepening cloud and vulnerability visibility, and expanding how the community vets AI agents before deployment.
Tenable One - Platform updates
Claude Mythos 5 is coming to Tenable One with Adversary View
Attackers don’t exploit systems in isolation. They chain together scattered, low-signal evidence like netstat entries, cached accounts, and active connections that traditional rules engines can’t connect, and that your team doesn’t have time to piece together manually.
This is where frontier AI models shine. Tenable One Adversary View, launching this September, brings the power of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 directly into the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform. Built on the Project Glasswing collaboration between Tenable and Anthropic, Adversary View applies advanced cyber reasoning to your existing exposure data, uncovering hidden vulnerability chains, visualizing how an attacker would actually move through your environment, and surfacing evidence-backed fixes to break those chains before attackers exploit them — all within an agentic harness that keeps the AI’s reasoning controlled and auditable.
- Take advantage of Claude Mythos 5 to tackle complex exposure management challenges.
- Cut through the noise with a ranked, prioritized list of the vulnerability chains that matter most, backed by evidence and specific remediation guidance.
- Move at the speed of adversaries by pairing Claude Mythos 5’s advanced reasoning with the exposure intelligence you already have in Tenable One — no new tools required.
Read the blog post
Explore the guided demo
3 new connectors bring GitHub and GitLab findings into Tenable One
Tenable One connectors combine your third-party security tools with Tenable’s native sensor data for one view of risk across your attack surface. Three new connectors extend that coverage, pulling static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), and secret scanning findings straight into Tenable One.
- GitHub Code Scanning: Consolidates SAST and secret scanning findings, covering both vulnerable code and exposed credentials, into the same risk view as every other exposure you track.
- GitHub Dependabot: Brings SCA alerts on vulnerable dependencies, so a flawed package deep in your supply chain gets prioritized against everything else exposing you.
- GitLab Connector: Covers SAST, SCA, and Secret Detection findings in one connector, consolidating what’s otherwise split across multiple tools into a single risk view. Requires GitLab Ultimate to ingest findings.
All three are native connectors; add the connector, and findings start showing up in Tenable One.
Set up GitHub Code Scanning
Set up GitHub Dependabot
Set up GitLab Connector
CyberAgents Exchange
Exchange Inspector vets AI agents before they reach your environment
Tenable and OpenAI unveiled the CyberAgents Exchange AI Inspector, which pairs OpenAI’s GPT cyber models with Tenable One AI Exposure and expert researcher review to screen AI agents, skills, MCP servers, and multi-agent playbooks for prompt injection, PII exposure, and supply-chain risks before they’re deployed.
- Combines OpenAI GPT cyber models, Tenable One AI Exposure, and expert researcher review to vet AI agents before deployment.
- Screens AI agents, skills, MCP servers, and multi-agent playbooks for prompt injection, PII exposure, and supply-chain risks.
- Gives practitioners insight into production-ready AI agents and CISOs the confidence to approve their use.
The Exchange Inspector builds on the CyberAgents Exchange registry, which has already drawn more than 100 AI listings. Exchange Inspector is expected to be available in September.
Read the technical blog
Read the press release
Tenable One Vulnerability Management
Visualize your security trends over time
You can finally see exactly where your security metrics are heading, not just where they stand today. With newly added Trending Widgets, you can track your asset data and findings as daily line charts, giving you the historical context you need to accurately monitor your progress.
Data collection begins the moment you set up a widget. To get started, you can:
- Build custom views: Add up to five unique trend lines per widget, tailoring the dataset, entity type, and filters for each.
- Deploy pre-built charts: Search trending in the widget library to drop ready-to-use visualizations right onto your dashboard.
Check out the Trending Widget documentation
Release notes for the full details
Tenable One Cloud Exposure
Expanded Kubernetes and container topology in Tenable One Cloud Exposure
A comprehensive overview of Kubernetes and container topology is essential for risk-based prioritization because you have to see the whole picture of the resources, workloads, and clusters a vulnerability touches to know what’s actually risky.
Now, the “graph” tab in Tenable One Cloud Exposure gives you the full structural layout of a Kubernetes cluster, all the way down to a vulnerable container image, in one interactive view.
What’s new:
- Guided relationship picker: By expanding any node in the graph, it now surfaces a categorized menu (Compute, IAM, Kubernetes, Containers, Management, Network, Risk) so you can choose which connection to explore next.
- Full Kubernetes depth: Namespaces, roles, role bindings, service accounts, configuration maps, and workloads all surface as first-class nodes, whether the cluster is EKS, AKS, GKE, or self-managed.
The Kubernetes graph provides a holistic view of cluster contents, namespaces, and resource relationships, while allowing you to effortlessly navigate from clusters to underlying virtual machines and specific workloads, such as business-critical services. It also enables you to explore vulnerability instances linked to container images, ensuring they have complete context for risk prioritization and informed decision-making.
View the demo
Check out the product documentation
Tenable Nessus
Nessus reliability and performance updates
We have released several Tenable Nessus updates recently, with a mix of new capabilities as well as improvements related to performance and security.
- Scanner reliability fixes: Resolved SSL connection issues that could cause scanners to appear offline and stop receiving plugin updates.
- Kerberos authentication fix: Corrected an issue blocking plugins from retrieving host FQDNs, causing authentication failures.
- Tenable Security Center performance: Fixed timeout errors when processing large volumes of Tenable Nessus agent reports.
- Certificate handling: Resolved an issue in PostgreSQL client authentication.
Review Nessus documentation
Read the Plugin Release Notes
Take Tenable University training
Training and product education
Tenable Patch Management training
Upgrade your skills with the refreshed, free on-demand Introduction to Tenable Patch Management course in Tenable University. Modernized with interactive elements, real-time knowledge checks, and step-by-step video demonstrations, this self-paced web training gives you hands-on practice to efficiently secure both your SaaS and on-premises environments. Through this updated course, you will learn to:
- Understand core architecture: Master essential server and client components, operating system coverage, and fundamental patching logic.
- Optimize configuration and strategy: Configure locations and business units while implementing proven patching strategies across your enterprise.
- Execute global operations: Swiftly respond to critical threats using the Emergency Kit.
- Eliminate blind spots: Monitor real-time compliance health and identify hidden vulnerabilities using dynamic performance widgets and interactive dashboards.
Access this free course today in Tenable University to strengthen your remediation workflows and keep your organization secure.
Tenable events and webinars
Customer office hours
Customer office hours are recurring ask-me-anything sessions for Tenable Security Center, Tenable One Vulnerability Management, Tenable One Cloud Exposure, Tenable One Identity Exposure, and Tenable One OT Exposure. Time-zone-appropriate sessions are available for the Americas, Europe (including the Middle East and Africa), and Asia-Pacific.
Virtual events
- Tenable customer update - October 2026: Join the next quarterly customer update session at 11 a.m. ET / 4 p.m. BST / 5 p.m. CEST Oct. 20. This informative, fast-paced overview will explore how to better secure your expanding attack surface and consolidate critical security data. Products covered include Tenable One, Tenable One Vulnerability Management, Tenable Security Center, and Tenable Patch Management.
Register here
See all upcoming live and on-demand webinars
- TenableTalk Live: How Mythos will change cyber defenses forever: Join us at 11 a.m. ET, Thursday, Sept. 24, on LinkedIn as we dive into what happens when frontier AI reasoning gets built directly into the tools defenders use, and how teams can prepare for these new capabilities.
Tenable Professional Services
Tenable Hexa AI enablement workshop
Confidently adopt Tenable Hexa AI and the Tenable Hexa AI Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server with expert, hands-on guidance tailored to your environment. Delivered by Tenable Professional Services as a custom Statement of Work (SOW) engagement, this new workshop equips your team with practical skills to maximize your AI-driven exposure management capabilities. Through this custom engagement, you will:
- Explore enterprise AI capabilities: Analyze your internal AI tool usage and complete a technical overview of Tenable Hexa AI.
- Build practical expertise: Receive hands-on instruction to effectively operate Tenable Hexa AI and integrate the Tenable MCP Server into your tech stack.
- Design custom workflows: Develop tailored operational workflows and implement proven best practices to accelerate risk reduction.
To scope a custom workshop for your organization, contact your Tenable representative or email [email protected].