Tenable product update: Standardizing Tenable risk scoring
At Tenable, we are committed to providing the most accurate, defensible, and actionable view of organizational risk. To achieve this, we must continually refine the intelligence that powers your prioritization. On July 1, 2026, we are implementing a series of foundational updates to our risk scoring engines. As part of this update, you may see changes to your risk scores, depending on the Tenable product(s) you own. These changes simplify your workflow by standardizing scoring on a single, high-fidelity model for vulnerability and asset risk. The new standard for VPR For the past several months, many of you have utilized VPR (Beta) to gain deeper insights into exploitability. We are excited to announce that on July 1, this model will be promoted to the primary Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) across the Tenable platform. By standardizing on this advanced model, we are retiring legacy VPR scoring to ensure every customer benefits from our most sophisticated threat intelligence. The new version of VPR incorporates more threat intelligence and vulnerability metadata so that you can focus on the 1.6% of vulnerabilities that actually matter. Better context through enhanced asset classification Alongside the VPR update, we are enhancing our asset classification engine. This update improves how we identify the function and importance of assets across your entire attack surface, including Cloud, OT, and third-party devices. As a result, customers with access to Asset Criticality Ratings (ACR) for VM assets will see these scores more accurately reflect real-world business risk. What this means for you These are backend enhancements designed to provide immediate value with zero manual configuration. On July 1, your dashboards, reports, and APIs will automatically reflect these updated metrics. Because both VPR and ACR serve as inputs to Cyber Exposure Score (CES) and Asset Exposure Score (AES), customers using these scores may see changes that reflect a more accurate understanding of exposure. Customer FAQ What happens to the VPR (Beta) score in the Tenable UI? The Beta label will be removed. The high-fidelity model you’ve been previewing will become the standard VPR. The legacy version of VPR will be retired to ensure a single, unified source or truth. Do I need to rewrite my custom API scripts using VPR? No. For customers using APIs, updated values will be mapped into legacy VPR fields on the back end to ensure compatibility and a smooth transition for your scripts and third-party tools. How does this affect my SLAs? Because many organizations use VPR as their operational prioritization layer, your SLA statistics and remediation tracking will now reflect the more precise scoring model. This helps ensure your team is meeting response goals for the vulnerabilities that pose the highest actual risk. How does Enhanced Asset Classification affect my scores? The system now automatically identifies the function and criticality of assets across Cloud, OT, and third-party sources. This improved context leads to more accurate Asset Criticality Rating (ACR) adjustments. For customers with access to ACR, this ensures your most critical business assets are effectively prioritized. What actions does my team need to take, and when will the changes be reflected in my container? These updates will occur automatically within your Tenable console. Depending on the size of your environment, it may take time for score recalculations to be fully reflected across your console. For a detailed guide on our enhanced VPR, check out this FAQ. Want to see the why behind our scoring? View our scoring explained.Introducing Enhancements to VPR in Tenable Vulnerability Management!
Today, we launched enhancements to Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) in Tenable Vulnerability Management. These updates provide unmatched precision, AI-driven insights, and contextual understanding to help your security teams prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities more efficiently. How this benefits you: Sharpen precision to focus on what matters most: While traditional CVSS scores classify 60% of CVEs as High or Critical, our original VPR reduced this to 3%. The enhanced VPR further refines this, helping your teams focus on just 1.6% of vulnerabilities that represent actual risk to your business. This is achieved by leveraging an even broader spectrum of threat intelligence and real-time data input used to predict near-term exploitation in the wild. Unlock AI-driven insights and explainability: Our new LLM-powered insights deliver instant clarity, helping you quickly understand why an exposure matters, how it has been weaponized by threat actors, and providing clear, actionable guidance for mitigation and risk reduction. Prioritize with industry and regional context: New metadata provides crucial context, helping you understand if a vulnerability is being targeted in your specific industry or geographic region. Leverage advanced querying & filtering: The enhanced VPR model is easily accessible for filtering and querying in the new Explore views, which display Assets and Findings data, enabling faster investigations and response workflows. Both the original VPR and the enhanced VPR (referred to in-product as 'VPR (Beta)') will coexist for a period of time in Tenable Vulnerability Management, ensuring you can make a smooth transition. Future deprecation of the original VPR will be communicated in advance. To learn more about the enhancements to VPR, see the solution overview and click-through demo. For additional information, see our FAQ, release notes, and Scoring Explained help documentation.Action Required: Preparation for January 2026 Tenable Security Center Feed Update
We are writing to announce an important upcoming change to the Tenable Security Center feed data. Starting in mid-January 2026, the size of Tenable Security Center feeds will increase due to the addition of new Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) data; this data will be available in Tenable Security Center 6.8, anticipated for release later in Q1 2026. This update ensures you continue to receive comprehensive vulnerability data, but it requires immediate action to ensure your environment is prepared. What you need to do To prevent the feed size from causing PHP memory exhaustion in your environment, please follow the resolution path for your specific version: Versions 6.5.1 – 6.7.2: Patch 202601.1 is now available. Applying this patch will automatically modify the PHP configuration to increase the memory limit. Versions Prior to 6.5.1: Follow the instructions outlined in this Knowledge Base article to modify the PHP configuration. Note: Tenable Security Center consoles with less than 8 GB RAM may need to have their hardware resources updated. Review Tenable Security Center hardware recommendations Why this matters Taking action now allows you to adopt a proactive approach to this feed expansion, ensuring your nightly updates continue seamlessly. Prevent SC Feed Update Failures: Without this fix, SC Feed updates may fail and log an "Allowed memory size... exhausted" error or terminate abnormally with error status '255'. Protect Disk Space: Failing feed updates can leave behind orphaned files in /opt/sc/data/feed.XXXXX folders, which may build up and cause disk space issues over time. Access our related documentation to learn more: Tenable Security Center Patch 202601.1 (2026-01-06) Knowledge Base: Tenable Security Center Feed Update Failing with "terminated abnormally with error status '255'" Due to PHP Memory Exhaustion
🚨 Announcing: Tenable AI Exposure 🚨
AI platforms like ChatGPT Enterprise and Microsoft Copilot are boosting productivity, but they also expand your attack surface. AI Exposure, now in Tenable One, gives security teams the visibility and control they need to see, secure, and govern AI use across the organization. Tenable AI Exposure is currently available as a private customer preview for companies actively using ChatGPT Enterprise and/or Microsoft Copilot. If you are interested in joining this exclusive 120-day preview, please sign up through the form found on our product page. With AI Exposure, customers will be able to: Gain deep visibility into AI usage, including prompts, data flows, and risky interactions Identify misconfigurations or unsafe integrations that may expose sensitive data Monitor for AI-specific threats like prompt injection or other AI attacks Enable enforcement of organizational policies and governance standards for AI usage Deploy quickly without agents or disruptions in five minutes or less 🔍 To learn more about AI Exposure, visit our product page.Tenable Enhances Its Cloud Security Solution with Expanded Just-in-Time Access
Tenable has enhanced its Just-in-Time (JIT) Access capabilities to provide more comprehensive and streamlined cloud security for organizations. The Just-in-Time (JIT) Access feature significantly strengthens cloud security by granting temporary, need-based access to sensitive resources, minimizing the risks associated with persistent privileges. This approach offers several critical benefits for organizations striving to enhance their cloud security posture: Reduced Attack Surface: By eliminating always-on privileges, JIT Access significantly minimizes the window of opportunity for attackers to exploit compromised identities. Enhanced Security Posture: Granting access only when required and for a limited duration adheres to the principle of least privilege, mitigating the risk of both external threats and insider misuse. Seamless User Experience: Tenable's JIT Access offers user-friendly workflows, including integration with popular messaging platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams, allowing users to request and receive necessary access without disrupting their productivity. Improved Auditability and Compliance: The solution provides a clear and comprehensive audit trail of all access requests, approvals, and session activities, simplifying compliance with various regulatory frameworks. Achieving Zero Standing Privileges: Tenable's JIT Access empowers organizations to move towards a "zero standing privileges" model in their cloud environments, a critical step in modern cybersecurity. For more information, please visit the page.Introducing The CyberAgents Exchange: The Open-Source Hub for Cybersecurity AI
Attackers are adopting AI alarmingly fast, while frontier models are escalating exposure at an unprecedented scale. Meanwhile, security teams are building AI agents in isolation, solving the same problems, and reinventing the same tools with no neutral place to share what works. Collective defense only works if the community can act on it together. That is why we are thrilled to announce The CyberAgents Exchange, powered by Tenable. The CyberAgents Exchange is the open-source, vendor-agnostic hub for practitioners and CISOs to discover, share, and collaborate on AI agents, skills, MCP servers, and playbooks built for cybersecurity. Why The CyberAgents Exchange? The best security solutions come from practitioners closest to the problem. The Exchange is purpose-built for security teams, providing the infrastructure to automate workflows without reinventing the wheel. Here is what you can expect: Open-source and vendor-neutral: Agents work with any stack and are not locked to one platform. Trust through transparency: Every agent on the Exchange links directly to its source repository, so there are no bundled binaries or black boxes. Community-built credibility: The Exchange is curated by security professionals, for security professionals. Completely free: There are no fees to list or use agents, and the Exchange is open to any organization. Start Building Together Whether you are looking to browse production-tested agents, install skills, connect MCP servers, or compose multi-agent playbooks, the CyberAgents Exchange gives you the tools to scale your security operations. If you are already building agents, this is your platform to share your work, earn public validation, and elevate your craft. Ready to add your expertise? Head to exchange.tenable.com to get started! Navigate to the Contribute page via the top navigation bar to see step-by-step instructions on how to easily contribute an agent, skill, MCP server, or playbook to the site.May 2026 Tenable Product Newsletter
Check out our May newsletter to learn about the latest product and research updates, events, and educational content — all to help you get more value from your Tenable solutions. Tenable One Tenable Hexa AI: Intelligence into action at machine speed. We are thrilled to announce that Tenable Hexa AI, the agentic engine of the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, is now generally available. Tenable Hexa AI orchestrates and automates security workflows to accelerate risk reduction. Built-in or custom agents: Start immediately with our pre-built agents for common security tasks like asset management and dashboard creation, or build custom agents via the MCP server for your unique environment. Execute the fix: Tenable Hexa AI handles complex multi-step tasks like identifying the root cause of a threat and automatically creating the necessary remediation tickets. Automate with confidence: You define the guardrails. Every action is fully auditable and requires the level of human oversight you choose, so you can scale automation without risking your production environment. Get more details on Tenable Connect or read the documentation. To learn more about how to leverage Tenable Hexa AI, reach out to your account team or contact us. The Tenable One Open Connector Connect more. See more. Act faster. We built Tenable One to be the open, connected hub that turns your scattered tools into a one-stop shop for risk reduction. While our standard Connectors already keep your favorite tools in sync, we’re taking integration to the next level with the new Tenable One Open Connector. We're no longer just talking about official integrations; we're talking about bringing in your data from across unsupported or custom tools, spreadsheets, and even homegrown internal systems. What this means for you: Get a more complete view of risk by bringing your security data together in a single, contextual view. Unlock an open, flexible platform for your security stack by staying independent of pre-built integrations. Act faster with automated data syncs that keep your information always current. Tailor your data mapping to enable precise segmentation that fits your organization’s needs. Ready to achieve a truly unified view of your entire attack surface? Read the blog and view the demo. To get started, see the setup guide. Lifecycle management in attack path analysis Take control of your security workflows with our new lifecycle management features in attack path analysis. You can now manually transition attack techniques through specific stages — To Do, In Review, In Progress, Resolved, and Excluded — to ensure seamless collaboration across your team. What’s new: Manual technique control: Track progress accurately by assigning specific statuses to each technique. Smart attack path sync: When you update a technique’s status, the system automatically updates the status of all related attack paths to reflect that change. Unified workflow: Align your team around a shared lifecycle, providing a clear and consistent view of every identified threat. Learn more. Tenable One + Recorded Future integration Our new Recorded Future connector bridges the gap between your internal exposure data and the external threat landscape, giving you a single source of truth to accelerate remediation where it matters most. By layering Recorded Future’s threat intelligence over Tenable’s deep attack surface visibility, you can now achieve: Truly unified visibility: View high-fidelity threat intelligence alongside your full exposure data in one pane of glass. Holistic context: Instantly see how internal asset criticality aligns with real-world exploit trends. Targeted remediation: Ignore the noise and focus exclusively on the vulnerabilities threat actors are actively weaponizing in the wild. Learn more. Tenable integrates with the Claude Compliance API for AI governance Tenable has announced an integration between the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform and the Claude Compliance API. This new capability provides security and compliance teams with unprecedented visibility and governance over enterprise AI usage directly within their existing workflows. Key highlights of this release include: Granular visibility: Monitor enterprise Claude AI interactions, including chats and file uploads, natively within Tenable One. Risk detection: Identify malicious or suspicious activity across your AI ecosystem. Regulatory alignment: Ensure AI usage complies with corporate acceptable-use policies and global mandates like the EU AI Act. This integration is available immediately for all Tenable One customers, allowing organizations to safely adopt Claude Enterprise at scale while proactively managing AI-related risks. Tenable One Cloud Exposure This month, we are focusing on automated orchestration and shifting security further left into native developer workflows. What's New: Retroactive cloud automations: Apply new or re-enabled automation rules retrospectively to your entire backlog of cloud findings to wipe out historical cloud risks in a single click. 280 cloud-native secret types: Our original generic categories are now split into 280 specific data types (like GitHub App Tokens), allowing you to customize sensitivity criteria to fit your exact cloud compliance requirements. Native PR scanning (IaC): Catch security risks natively inside GitHub and Azure DevOps pull requests so developers can fix configuration errors directly on the relevant lines of code before merging. Windows container scans: Maintain robust protection across your entire application footprint with shift-left vulnerability scanning that now supports Windows-based container images within cloud CI/CD pipelines. On-demand registry scans: Manually push critical cloud container images or full repositories to the top of the scan queue to instantly verify your security fixes. For more information on these updates, please view “documentation” inside the Tenable One Cloud Exposure interface. Tenable One Vulnerability Management Automate remediation with direct ticketing Stop bouncing between disconnected tools. You can now create Jira or ServiceNow tickets directly within your Explore Findings view and launch Exposure Response Initiatives straight from Vulnerability Intelligence. Even better, Tenable automatically closes these tickets the moment a vulnerability is fixed, eliminating tedious manual cleanup for your team. To keep your security and IT teams aligned, we've also added live ticket log tracking inside the finding details page, new ticket filters for your findings table, and easy exports for Exposure Response logs. To get started, check out our documentation or interactive tour. Clear your blind spots and validate your security coverage To protect your network, you need to know your security tools are working correctly. New dashboards and reports help you eliminate hidden gaps and prioritize fixes faster. The program health dashboard monitors your deployment health and scanning coverage. It gives you a central view to ensure your security agents are active and fully patched, preventing silent operational failures. The program health report unifies fragmented asset data and scan authentication indicators into a single document. It resolves conflicting inventories and credential issues, giving you a clean, trusted report to plan and execute remediation. The endpoint application visibility dashboard cuts out the hours your team spends hunting down software inventories. It automatically consolidates application data across endpoints so you can prioritize fixes based on real-world exploit likelihood and deployment scale. Nessus Whether you are a seasoned pro with Nessus or just starting out as a first-time user, don’t forget to check out our on-demand training courses and learn from the team that built Nessus. Nessus Fundamentals: Maximize your Nessus Professional or Expert deployments. You’ll master the essential building blocks of vulnerability assessment, conquering everything from initial installation and asset discovery to compliance checks and in-depth analysis. No prerequisites necessary. Nessus Advanced: Elevate your Nessus Expert skills. You’ll build upon your foundational knowledge to take command of external attack surface discovery, web app scans, and results analysis. Accelerate your time-to-value with a full year of unlimited access to expert-led video instruction. You will master critical workflows, maximize your security ROI, and earn a digital badge and Certificate of Completion to validate your hard-earned expertise. Learn more and enroll today at www.tenable.com/buy/training Tenable Security Center Tenable Security Center 6.8 Focus on the vulnerabilities that matter with AI-powered VPR insights and mitigation guidance. This release streamlines your operations with unified asset repositories for IPv4, IPv6, and Agents, and improves efficiency with new background query processing and scan optimization capabilities. View the full release notes to learn more. Tenable Patch Management Scale patching and simplify upgrades Broader environment coverage, faster endpoint updates, and a much smoother platform upgrade are available with the latest releases. Version 10.1.971.12 (SaaS & on-premise) expands your coverage across new Linux distributions and architectures. On your endpoints, you can now run lightweight, native driver and BIOS updates without the heavy files that cause CPU bloat, and deploy Windows upgrades via bandwidth-saving peer-to-peer rollouts. This release also cuts console memory usage, hardens library security, and fixes interface bugs affecting patch previews. Version 10.1.972.14 (server) delivers a targeted hotfix that corrects server upgrade task-sequencing and strategy validation issues, ensuring you a seamless, error-free migration from older versions. Broader environment coverage, faster endpoint updates, and a much smoother platform upgrade are available with the latest releases. Version 10.1.971.12 (SaaS and on-premises): Expands your coverage across new Linux distributions and architectures. On your endpoints, you can now run lightweight, native driver and BIOS updates without the heavy files that cause CPU bloat, and deploy Windows upgrades via bandwidth-saving peer-to-peer rollouts. This release also cuts console memory usage, hardens library security, and fixes interface bugs affecting patch previews. Version 10.1.972.14 (server): Delivers a targeted hotfix that corrects server upgrade task-sequencing and strategy validation issues, ensuring a seamless, error-free migration from older versions. How to update: SaaS tenants have been updated automatically. For on-prem deployments, download the latest installers via the Tenable Downloads Portal. For the further details, check out the release notes. Tenable One OT Exposure Tenable OT Security 4.6 Our latest release introduces a variety of new features and performance enhancements, including refined scan controls and streamlined workflows for large-scale enterprise environments. Massive subnet scaling: Now supports up to 5,000 subnets per ICP, significantly increasing visibility for distributed large enterprise deployments. Centralized network management: A new Monitored Networks page includes bulk-add capabilities and the ability to stage inactive networks before monitoring. Precision scanning: New scan customization options allow you to define specific credential usage per scan for safe discovery of sensitive assets. Streamlined platform navigation: Updated workflow for SSO/SAML users allows you to instantly pivot back to Tenable One with a single click. Remote agent updates and query restrictions: Update OT agents directly from the ICP, remove local site visits or manual CLI intervention, and restrict specific protocol queries with OT agents. Enhanced diagnostics: Deeper metadata in asset log exports for faster troubleshooting. IoT connector updates: Major stability and performance upgrades for Milestone, AvigilonES, and Exacq Edge integrations for IoT asset discovery. Update required: Tenable OT Security 4.5 Service Pack (version 4.5.61) All customers running version 4.5 should apply this upgrade immediately for optimal system stability and performance when processing high volumes of network conversations. This update also addresses communication gaps with Rockwell Stratix devices and Nessus scans. View the full release notes. Tenable Ecosystem Tenable App for Microsoft Sentinel v3.1.2 Version 3.1.2 of the Tenable App for Microsoft Sentinel is now available, bringing connector enhancements and schema updates to optimize your integration. What’s new: TIE data connector: The UI now supports multiple rsyslog configurations. Schema updates: Updated table schemas for Tenable One Vulnerability Management and Tenable One Web App Scanning vulnerabilities within the ARM Template. Improved data handling: The Tenable Vulnerability SDK now utilizes indexed_at instead of last_found. We highly recommend upgrading to v3.1.2 to ensure full support for these latest changes. For more details, please read Tenable Documentation or visit the Azure Marketplace to download. Please note, this application is also available via the Microsoft Azure Gov Cloud marketplace. Tenable events and webinars Tune in for product updates, demos, how-to advice and Q&A. See all upcoming live and on-demand webinars at https://www.tenable.com/webinars. Customer Office Hours These 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 (APJ). Learn more and register here. On-demand TenableTalk Live: Responding to Mythos and Frontier AI vulnerability discovery: Catch the replay of this conversation about the impact of frontier AI models on the threat landscape and how security teams can evolve vulnerability discovery into a machine-speed agentic defense. Watch on LinkedIn or in Tenable Connect. Tenable customer update: April 2026: Watch this quarterly Tenable customer update to learn how to use AI to augment your security team, secure your expanding AI attack surface, uncover hidden risk across your connected IT/OT environments, and more. Products covered: Tenable One, Tenable One AI Exposure, Tenable One Vulnerability Management, OT functionality, third-party data connections, and Tenable Security Center. Tenable Research Research Security Operations Subscribe to the Research team blog posts here. Why the approaching flood of vulnerabilities changes everything — and what to do about it New content Almost 7,000 new published vulnerability plugins. More than 60 new audits delivered to customers. Read Tenable documentation.What's New in Tenable One: December 2025 Release
Hey everyone! :) This month's release delivers broader visibility, deeper insights, and more tailored data analysis to help you manage and reduce risk with confidence. Release highlights: New Tenable One Connector | OT Security | Claroty Connect Tenable One with your Claroty platform to manage OT risks alongside the rest of your attack surface, revealing how IT exposures can directly impact industrial control systems and critical infrastructure. Protect uptime and safety by viewing IT and OT as a single, connected environment. Dashboards | Widgets Edit Edit and update widgets on dashboards you own, customizing all configuration parameters, including widget type, categories, values, data labels, stacking, and filters, to tailor insights to your specific needs. See all platform enhancements >>Bye-bye, manual exceptions! Say hello to query-based recast and a new API.
You’ve asked for more control, and now, we’ve delivered. With the launch of query-based recast, Tenable Vulnerability Management gives you the granular precision and automation tools you need to streamline exception workflows and accurately manage risk. Why you'll love this update: You set the rules precisely: You create powerful exceptions based on 14 criteria, including Asset Tags, CVEs, networks, and FQDNs. This gives you far more control than ever before. Intelligent management: We help you manage those rules without overlap. The new Rules Management page flags Related Rules, so you confidently avoid conflicting policies that waste your time. Automation is here: Stop manual work! You can now use the new Recast API to automate rule creation, modification, and deployment across your entire environment. Modern look (and dark mode!): Manage everything in a clean, intuitive Rules Management page built with our design system. (Yes, it supports dark mode. We hear you, fellow night owls.) These updates empower you to move from detection to action with greater speed and confidence. [Read the Full Release Notes] | [Review the Documentation]Nessus 10.9 is Now Generally Available!
We're excited to announce the general availability of Nessus 10.9! This latest release brings powerful new capabilities designed to enhance your vulnerability assessment, offering greater flexibility, improved efficiency, and deeper insights into your security posture. What's New in Nessus 10.9? Nessus 10.9 introduces several key features to empower your security teams: Offline Web Application Scanning in Nessus Expert: For organizations with strict network segmentation or air-gapped environments, Nessus 10.9 now enables comprehensive web application scanning functionality. This ensures that your critical web applications, even in isolated networks, receive the same thorough security assessment as those in connected environments, helping you maintain a consistent security baseline across your entire infrastructure. This functionality is available in Nessus Expert only. Triggered Agent Scans in Nessus Manager: Automatically initiate vulnerability scans via Nessus Manager in response to specific events. This means you can gain immediate insights into your security posture as soon as new assets are discovered or critical system changes occur. This functionality will be enabled directly through Tenable Security Center in July. Agent Version Declaration for Offline Environments in Nessus Manager: Simplify the management of your Nessus Agents in air-gapped or offline deployments. With Nessus 10.9, you can now declare agent versions for Nessus Manager agent profiles, streamlining updates and ensuring your agents are running the desired software versions, even without direct internet connectivity. Agent Safe Mode Status Reporting in Nessus Manager: Get better visibility into the health and operational status of your Nessus Agents. Nessus 10.9 provides reporting on "Agent Safe Mode" status, giving you insights into agents that may be experiencing issues or operating in a limited capacity. This allows for quicker identification and resolution of agent-related problems, ensuring uninterrupted scanning coverage. Upgrade to Nessus 10.9 Today! Nessus 10.9 is available now. We encourage all Nessus users to upgrade to take advantage of these new features and continue to strengthen their vulnerability assessment capabilities. For more information, see the Nessus 10.9 release notes and Nessus 10.9 user guide. Thank you for choosing Nessus as your trusted vulnerability assessment solution.
