Tenable Product Update Newsletter — August 2026
Welcome to your monthly round-up of the latest Tenable product updates, platform enhancements, and community news. This month, we’re focused on agentic automation, quantum-readiness, and sharper visibility across your attack surface. Tenable One Platform Updates Tenable Hexa AI now supports Routines and Agent Center in Tenable One Introducing the next major evolution in agentic security: an always-on workforce powered by Tenable Hexa AI Routines, Agent Center, and a new Jamf integration directly within the Tenable One platform. Moving past conversational search and one-off actions, mobilize an autonomous fleet that runs in the background to seamlessly coordinate multi-step security tasks across your entire exposure landscape. Routines: Define an exposure workflow once and set a schedule. Hexa reasons through fresh context on every run and automatically delivers actionable results. Agent Center: A central workspace to track all routines to get clear visibility into what’s running, completed, queued, or awaiting user input. Jamf integration: Fetch Jamf-managed Mac context on demand and push patch policies directly back to Jamf without ever leaving Tenable One. Available now. Get started by navigating to Agent Center > Create a Routine or the Routines tab in Hexa AI. Get more details in the release notes CyberAgents Exchange CyberAgents Exchange and SWARM event recap The CyberAgents Exchange, powered by Tenable, is an open-source, vendor-agnostic hub where security practitioners and CISOs can discover, share, and collaborate on AI agents, skills, MCP servers, and playbooks built for cybersecurity. This free-to-use community infrastructure allows defenders to scale their capabilities, eliminate development silos, and outpace AI-generated threats without vendor lock-in. In conjunction with the CyberAgents Exchange launch, Tenable hosted SWARM, a hands-on cybersecurity agentic AI build event at Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas. Real-world solutions: Sponsored by AWS and presented with support from Anthropic, the event challenged security practitioners to build open-source components that automate real-world security workflows. Winners: Congratulations to our first-, second-, and third-place winning teams! Your incredible builds are now on the CyberAgents Exchange for the global security community to adopt and build upon. Explore the CyberAgents Exchange today, and check out our official press release and SWARM recap blog post for complete details. Explore the CyberAgents Exchange Read the SWARM recap blog Read the press release Tenable One Vulnerability Management Accelerate software discovery and compliance reporting in Explore Seamlessly track software inventory and isolate compliance checks directly within Tenable One Vulnerability Management. The new Software and Host Audit tabs in Explore deliver dedicated views to eliminate UI clutter, track deployed application footprints, and speed up audit reporting. Use these views to: Pinpoint software exposure: Search installed software, versions, and vendors alongside risk metrics like ACR and AES to maximize SBOM value. Isolate compliance findings: Separate CIS benchmark and hardening checks from general vulnerability noise without building complex filters. Export audit evidence: Instantly group and export targeted software inventories or configuration results for internal teams and external auditors. Read the full post on Tenable Connect Tenable One AI Exposure Now covering all major AI platforms and developer tools AI adoption is outpacing most teams’ ability to govern it, and every new LLM, agent, or IDE plugin adds another blind spot to the attack surface. Tenable One AI Exposure closes that gap further, adding support for Google Gemini and extending coverage across the tools where AI actually gets used inside your environment. Expanded coverage and capabilities include: Full LLM coverage: Monitor prompts, responses, and usage patterns across Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise, and Microsoft Copilot, with policy enforcement and detection of risky or unauthorized activity. Broader shadow AI visibility: Discover sanctioned and unsanctioned AI use across Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments, AI-native IDEs like Cursor, Windsurf, and Trae, and AI-enabled browser extensions. Faster remediation workflows: Route policy violations straight into Jira or ServiceNow, or trigger automated alerts over email, Slack, or Teams, so issues get worked instead of just logged. Read the Tenable One AI Exposure press release Tenable One Cloud Exposure Identify non-compliant post-quantum cryptography cloud resources Encrypted traffic captured today can be stored and decrypted later, once quantum computing matures, a threat known as harvest-now-decrypt-later (HNDL). Organizations relying on outdated Transport Layer Security (TLS) configurations or non-quantum-safe encryption are exposed to this risk without even knowing it. Tenable One Cloud Exposure now helps customers identify non-compliant post-quantum cryptography (PQC) cloud resources to support future compliance regulations. We’ve added four new properties to the Network Endpoint profile for HTTPS-supported endpoints. The enhancement allows teams to: Get visibility into quantum readiness: See which endpoints already support post-quantum cryptography and which don’t, so you can prioritize upgrades ahead of emerging compliance mandates. Get all non-PQC-compliant resources listed in one query. Identify weak encryption faster: Surface outdated TLS versions and vulnerable cipher suites across your environment without manual audits or separate scanning tools. Reduce HNDL exposure: Proactively harden key exchange methods and ciphers before intercepted traffic becomes a future liability. Gain compliance evidence: Customers in regulated industries, such as healthcare and financial services, can easily prove compliance as quantum computing matures. To find these resources in your cloud environment, go to Tenable One Cloud Exposure and filter or query “non-ready PQC resources” using the Network Endpoint page or Explorer. Check out other recent releases in the product documentation Tenable One OT Exposure Deeper IT/OT visibility for every corner of your environment Our latest release of Tenable One OT Exposure 4.7 expands visibility for grid operators and disconnected environments, and introduces a variety of productivity enhancements. OT agents for isolated networks: Get asset visibility and vulnerability coverage in air-gapped and disconnected environments (no sensors or live connectivity required) with offline scan profiles and a local agent UI for field technicians. Power substation anomaly detection: Passively monitors GOOSE streams and flags anomalous activity, such as configuration revision changes, giving utilities and grid operators critical visibility. Yokogawa DCS activity detection: Surfaces critical operational changes on Yokogawa Centum VP systems, so you can spot engineering activity that may signal unauthorized access. Centralized subnet management: Define CIDR boundaries and toggle monitoring across all ICPs from a single interface in Enterprise Manager, eliminating per-site configuration. Saved Views: Save, name, and reuse custom filter combinations across asset and findings views, cutting down repetitive setup during investigations. Asset side panel: Review asset details without leaving the findings or asset grid, for faster pivoting during investigations. Upgrade today to put these new capabilities to work in your environment. Explore the release notes Tenable Security Center Sharper visibility, streamlined operations The latest release of Tenable Security Center 6.9 brings several upgrades to help you accelerate your self-hosted vulnerability management program. Updated vulnerability findings interface: Rich filtering options (severity, asset, plugin, IP-based) and surfaced Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) insights help you zero in on what matters most, faster. Tenable Nessus scanner support via Sensor Proxy: Link Tenable Nessus scanners through the Sensor Proxy service for more flexible deployments and horizontal scaling across large enterprise and Tenable Enclave Security environments. Windows LAPS credential support: Dynamic credential retrieval from Active Directory (AD) strengthens scan security and reduces the admin burden of credential management. Expanded PAM Kerberos authentication: Support across BeyondTrust, Delinea, and CyberArk integrations gives you tighter credential control. One-click diagnostic bundle upload: Submit diagnostic files directly to Tenable Support from within your console, so we can resolve your cases faster. (Requires a valid Tenable Nessus feed license. Not supported in air-gapped environments.) Trending data moves to PostgreSQL: A lighter disk footprint and better performance for your trend reporting. Explore the release notes Tenable Nessus Stability fixes and continued security hardening with the latest Tenable Nessus releases Tenable Nessus 10.12.2 and 10.12.3 are now available, resolving a scanner connectivity issue and rounding out a batch of stability fixes: Your scanners stay online and up to date: We’ve addressed a bug where scanners could drop offline and stop receiving plugin updates after an upgrade, so you get consistent scan coverage without needing to manually check scanner status. Fewer stuck or incomplete agent scans: Cluster-based agent scans will finish reliably, so you will not need to re-run them. More accurate reporting on linked agents: You can always trust what you see in the console (requires Tenable Agent 11.2.0 or later). Want to see Tenable Nessus in action or level up your team’s skills? View a Tenable Nessus demo or purchase our on-demand training course. What these updates mean for you: If you were experiencing scanners going offline or missing plugin updates, updating to 10.12.3 will solve it. Tenable Agent customers should update to v11.2.0 or later to get the linked-agent plugin reporting fix. Review the release notes Tenable Nessus Professional data sheet Tenable Nessus Expert data sheet Tenable Patch Management Instant patch verification and expanded Linux support This latest update focuses on saving you time and verifying your fixes faster. Instantly verify patches: Automatically trigger a Nessus Agent scan the moment a patch finishes installing. You get immediate proof of CVE remediation without waiting for your next scheduled scan window. Natively patch EPEL packages: Update community-maintained add-on software across your Enterprise Linux distributions on the exact same schedule as your core OS, eliminating the need for custom scripts. Stronger security and faster performance: Benefit from upgraded AES-GCM encryption, easier TLS certificate management directly from your console, faster dashboard load times, and fixes that keep your maintenance windows accurate to prevent unwanted reboots. Read the full details on Tenable Connect Training and Product Education Tenable One Cloud Exposure Specialist Training refreshed in Tenable University The instructor-led Tenable One Cloud Exposure Specialist product training in Tenable University is rebuilt with modernized content and hands-on lab exercises. All labs and course content now reflect the latest user interface and recent feature releases. Learn more Buy instructor-led training Tenable Events and Webinars Virtual events Tenable customer update, July 2026: Watch the most recent quarterly customer update session. This informative, fast-paced overview explores how to better secure your expanding attack surface and consolidate critical security data. Products covered include Tenable One, Tenable One AI Exposure, Tenable One Vulnerability Management, and Tenable Security Center. Watch the July customer update Live from SWARM: An announcement to shift the future of agentic AI security. Watch the replay of a special 15-minute session streaming directly from SWARM, our exclusive agentic AI build event at Black Hat USA 2026. The session dives into the realities of AI-augmented exposure management and a special announcement that will change how the infosec community collaborates on AI security. Watch on LinkedIn --- Read Tenable documentation.
New in Tenable One Vulnerability Management: Dedicated spaces for Software Inventory and Host Audits
We’ve updated the Explore section in Tenable One Vulnerability Management with two new dedicated tabs: Software and Host Audits. These updates decouple software exposure and configuration compliance from standard CVE finding workflows, giving you dedicated views built specifically to track installed software footprints and streamline compliance reporting. 1. The Software Tab: Take control of your software inventory Seamlessly track and manage your software inventory directly within Tenable One Vulnerability Management. Built on the Explore UI, the new Software Tab delivers the deep visibility needed to streamline asset management, track deployed versions across your footprint, and maximize your SBOM value Key capabilities Pinpoint specific software: Search across your environment using Vendor and Product Name filters alongside Tenable risk metrics like Asset Criticality Rating (ACR) and Asset Exposure Score (AES) to identify high-value targets running unsupported or risky applications. Organize your view: Use the left-side tree navigation to filter by product types (e.g., Databases, Operating Systems), or group software by Asset (to see everything installed on a given asset) or by Vendor (to see total software deployment across your network). Take action: Drill deep into granular software details for deeper investigation or export full/filtered software inventories to CSV for internal audits and reporting. Important operational notes for software data: Scan requirements: The Software tab relies on credentialed network scans or Tenable Agent scans to inspect host file systems. Non-credentialed scans will not populate this tab. 30-day retention window: Software data is retained for 30 days. If an asset is not re-scanned within 30 days, its software records are automatically removed to prevent stale data from cluttering your inventory. Ensure your credentialed scan schedules run at least monthly to maintain an accurate view. Documentation links: Overview of the Software Tab Using Filters and Left-Tree Navigation Exporting Software Data and CSV Keys 2. The Host Audit Tab: Isolated compliance and hardening workflows Evaluating CIS benchmarks or internal hardening policies requires a different mindset than patching missing software updates. Mixing configuration checks with vulnerability findings creates unnecessary clutter when preparing for an audit. We moved Host Audits out of Explore > Findings and gave them a dedicated top-level Host Audit tab. Key capabilities Clear result categorization: Instantly filter host audit findings by status: Passed, Failed, Warning, Info, Skipped, Error, or Unknown. Group by audit check or asset: Group by audit check to see every machine failing a specific CIS benchmark control. Group by asset to review the complete configuration posture of an individual server or workstation. Streamlined evidence exporting: Filter down to your failed audit checks and export reports or CSVs directly formatted for compliance officers and external auditors. 15-Month data retention: Audit findings are retained for 15 months, giving you historical context to demonstrate compliance posture over time. Where did my audit data go? If you previously tracked host audits under Explore > Findings, that data has transitioned entirely to the new Host Audits tab. Your historical audit data remains intact. Documentation links: Getting Started with Host Audits Grouping and Filtering Host Audit Findings Generating Host Audit Reports Questions or feedback? Try out the new tabs in Explore today. If you have feedback on how these views fit into your daily workflow, drop a comment below.
[GA Release] Tenable App for Splunk v6.1.1 and Tenable Add-on for Splunk v8.0.3 Now Live!
Hi everyone! Tenable App for Splunk v6.1.1 and Tenable Add-on for Splunk v8.0.3 are officially GA and available now on Splunkbase! Release Date: July 27, 2026 Download: Tenable App for Splunk on Splunkbase Tenable Add-on for Splunk on Splunkbase Docs & User Guide: Tenable App for Splunk Documentation Tenable Add-on for Splunk Documentation What’s New? Bumped the minimum required Python version to 3.13 as per Splunk standards. Compatibility Matrix: Browser: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox OS: Platform Independent Splunk Enterprise version: 10.2.x, 10.0.x, 9.4.x and 9.3.x Supported Splunk Deployment: Splunk Cluster, Splunk Standalone, and Distributed Deployment Questions or Feedback? If you have feedback or questions, we’d love to hear from you! - Tenable Ecosystem Product ManagementTenable Product Update Newsletter — July 2026
Check out our July newsletter to learn about the latest product and research updates, events, and educational content. Plus, this month we’re featuring the launch of the CyberAgents Exchange, powered by Tenable. Keep reading to read more about the new open-source AI exchange! Tenable One - Platform updates Integrate application security data into Tenable One for code-to-runtime security Your codebase is growing faster than your security program, and in the age of AI, developers are introducing security findings at 10 times the rate of their peers. It is critical to see code as part of your entire attack surface. Application security data now integrates directly into Tenable One to further close visibility gaps and ensure secure code development in the AI era. Whether code is human- or machine-written, you can now integrate application security risks, like those from Snyk, Claude Security, or any other application security tool via Tenable One Connectors — directly alongside your existing exposure data. What this means for you: Achieve full code-to-runtime visibility by bringing application security risks together with the rest of your exposure data in one place. Fix code flaws before they become incidents by identifying your most business-critical code flaws and fixing them early in the development lifecycle. Measure organizational exposure and transform technical static code vulnerabilities into clear risk metrics on business resilience. Read the blog post Explore the guided demo Check out Open Connector documentation and Snyk Connector documentation Improved workflow orchestration capabilities in Tenable One Vulnerability Management and Tenable One New enhancements to Tenable's workflow orchestration capabilities are now generally available. This release streamlines remediation workflows and improves operational efficiency with the following key updates: Plugin output in tickets: You can now attach Plugin Output directly to tickets, providing immediate context and critical information while eliminating the need for further navigation. Tenable Hexa AI for ServiceNow: You can now leverage Tenable Hexa AI for ServiceNow incident and initiative creation to match already available Jira functionality. Review the exposure management release notes Review the Tenable Vulnerability Management release notes Tenable unified scoring is now live Tenable has unified its risk prioritization standard, moving the high-fidelity Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) model out of beta to become the sole standard. To sharpen your prioritization, an updated asset classification engine also delivers more accurate Asset Criticality Ratings (ACR) for your assets. Because VPR and ACR feed directly into your Cyber Exposure Score (CES) and Asset Exposure Score (AES), your console will automatically update to reflect a precise understanding of your exposure. These recalculations occur automatically, though completion times depend on the size of your environment. To prevent errors in your saved views, you must manually update any filters or combinations that still use VPR v1. No data migration is required. Visit Tenable Connect for more details Learn more about Tenable One scoring The CyberAgents Exchange, powered by Tenable Tenable launches the industry’s first open-source AI exchange (and we want your agents on it) Security teams are building AI agents in isolation, reinventing the wheel with no neutral place to share what actually works. The CyberAgents Exchange, powered by Tenable, is the only purpose-built, cybersecurity-native registry for AI agents, skills, MCP servers, and multi-agent playbooks in the current market. Built by defenders. For defenders: Purpose-built for security teams to solve the exposure problems practitioners actually face. Collective defense for the agentic era: Anyone can contribute; everyone benefits. Agents and skills are shared under open licenses with no fees or gates. Trust through transparency: Every agent links directly to its source repository, so there are no bundled binaries or black boxes. Build your reputation. Elevate your craft: Contributing is career capital. We give practitioners a platform to earn validation and build an undeniable resume. Join the community, build your reputation, and start automating risk reduction. Explore the directory and submit your builds Tenable One Cloud Exposure Tenable One Cloud Exposure achieves FedRAMP High authorization Tenable is committed to being the trusted partner of choice for the public sector, providing the advanced protection required for the U.S. government’s most sensitive environments. We are proud to announce that Tenable One Cloud Exposure has achieved FedRAMP High and Impact Level 5 (IL5) authorization. Purpose-built for sensitive government cloud environments, this high-level authorization delivers: Unified visibility: Gain a single view across infrastructure, identities, and workloads — even in air-gapped environments. Zero-trust enforcement: Leverage advanced identity analytics to enforce least privilege principles and align with DoW CIO mandates. Blast radius reduction: Map the Web of Risk to see how vulnerabilities connect to identities and sensitive data, stopping problems before they snowball. Cost reduction: Support fiscal modernization by eliminating tool sprawl and reducing costs without compromising security. Read the press release Learn more about our FedRAMP High solutions Take control of your sensitive data When data classification engines scan the cloud, they often flag false positives, like internal test data, mock databases, or benign corporate email domains, as critical risks. With Tenable’s new data classification exclusions, customers can fine-tune their data scans to get to the bottom of what’s actually sensitive. Exclude by resource scope: Narrow exclusions to specific data types or resources using user-friendly Explorer-based queries. Exclude specific values: Filter out known text patterns or regex strings (like internal email domains). Target precise locations: Use OR logic to pinpoint exact databases, schemas, tables, file extensions, or object paths. Learn how to create a data classification exclusion Read about the recent releases here Tenable One Web App Scanning Authenticate web app scans with OAuth 2.0 You can now scan protected applications and APIs using OAuth 2.0 authentication within Tenable One Web App Scanning. Configure these options under your scan credential settings using three supported flows: Authorization code: For user-driven logins, with optional PKCE and Selenium scripting for complex identity providers. Client credentials: For machine-to-machine API scans without user interaction. Device code: For headless and device-style authentication. To prevent scans from silently losing access, authorization verification continuously validates your session via response patterns, headers, or HTTP status codes across all credential types. Integrate these capabilities immediately through your existing credentials API without changing endpoints. You can call the List Credential Types endpoint to programmatically discover the new fields. Review the documentation Review the release notes Tenable One OT Exposure Extended OT visibility for grid operators and disconnected environments Our latest Tenable One OT Exposure release expands visibility for grid operators and disconnected environments, and introduces productivity and performance enhancements to accelerate analyst workflows. OT agent for disconnected environments: Secure air-gapped and isolated networks without deploying sensors or requiring live connectivity, featuring offline scan profiles, a local agent interface tailored for field technicians, and centralized Network Areas to resolve duplicate IP conflicts across distributed sites. Power substation anomaly detection: Passively monitor GOOSE streams and alert on anomalous activity (e.g., code revision changes) to protect utility and grid operations from unauthorized modifications or replay attacks. Yokogawa DCS activity detection: Get deep visibility into engineering activities on Yokogawa Centum VP systems to detect changes to critical operations and unauthorized access, including controller start/stop, code edits, function block changes, tag writes/deletes, and more. Simplified enterprise management: Manage all ICP subnets from a single Enterprise Manager interface — define CIDR boundaries, toggle monitoring per-site, and eliminate the need for per-ICP configuration for monitoring different network areas. Analyst workflow improvements: Reuse investigations with Saved Views, review Assets and Findings details faster with a quick-access side panel, and secure syslog transport with TLS support. Explore the user guide Review the release notes Tenable Security Center Reimagined vulnerability analysis, flexible deployment, and streamlined operations Tenable Security Center 6.9, now available in early access, modernizes vulnerability analysis and expands enterprise deployment flexibility with a reimagined query experience and deeper PAM and credential integrations. Explore Findings: A redesigned vulnerability query interface with expanded filtering and VPR key drivers surfaced directly in the findings detail panel. Tenable Nessus scanners via Tenable Sensor Proxy: Deploy Tenable Nessus scanners through Tenable Sensor Proxy for flexible, scalable enterprise and Tenable Enclave Security environments. Windows LAPS and PAM Kerberos support: Dynamically retrieve scan credentials via Windows LAPS and Kerberos Target Authentication across all supported PAM integrations. Performance improvements: Submit diagnostic bundles directly to Tenable Support, suppress rollover scans during freeze windows, and benefit from a modernized data architecture that reduces disk usage. Explore the user guide Download the early access release Tenable Ecosystem Now available: PyTenable 26.6.1 PyTenable 26.6.1 has officially been released, introducing a new temporal versioning scheme (YEAR.MONTH.PATCH) to better align with rapid API changes and enable critical updates to older modules. Marshmallow v4 support: Resolved issues preventing the use of newer Marshmallow versions. APA export: Added support in the current Tenable One package. Streamlined testing: Refactored workflow processes mean you no longer need Act and Docker installed just to run the test suite. Bug fixes: Addressed various minor issues introduced by recent API changes. Moving forward, support will be provided for the current month minus three releases, so we highly recommend pinning your software to a specific release and testing against the latest. Visit the PyTenable GitHub repository Training and product education Tenable One Exposure Management Platform introduction course includes CTEM This introductory course in Tenable University now incorporates the foundations of the Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) framework to identify exposures, prioritize remediations, and reduce risk across your modern attack surface. Practitioners and partners will learn the fundamentals of continuous hybrid asset discovery, risk-based scoring, and validating critical attack paths to effectively manage security posture. This no-cost course serves as the essential primer and recommended prerequisite for the Specialist tier. Access the course on demand in Tenable University On-demand Tenable One Exposure Management Platform Specialist course now available This brand-new paid Tenable University training course provides comprehensive Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) lifecycle training across the entire Tenable One architecture. The Specialist-level course delivers deep technical coverage of the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, including: Tenable One Vulnerability Management Tenable One Attack Surface Management Tenable One Identity Exposure Tenable One OT Exposure Tenable One Cloud Exposure Tenable One Web App Scanning Practitioners will gain proficiency in third-party data integration, advanced asset tagging, and context-aware analytics (such as Attack Path Analysis and Exposure Signals) to drive risk-based prioritization and deliver actionable executive dashboards. Eligible for Continuing Education (CE) credit. Learn more and purchase online Tenable events and 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 (APAC). Learn more and register Virtual events Now on demand — Tenable customer update, July 2026: Watch the most recent quarterly customer update session. This informative, fast-paced overview explores how to better secure your expanding attack surface and consolidate critical security data. Products covered include: Tenable One, Tenable One AI Exposure, Tenable One Vulnerability Management, and Tenable Security Center. Watch on demand See all upcoming live and on-demand webinars Read Tenable documentation.
Now available: Integrate application security data into Tenable One for code-to-runtime security
Your codebase is growing faster than your security program, and in the age of AI, developers are introducing security findings at 10 times the rate of their peers. It is critical to see code as part of your entire attack surface. We’re excited to announce that application security data can now be integrated in Tenable One to further close visibility gaps and ensure secure code development in the AI era. Whether code is human or machine-written, you can now integrate application security risks—like those from Snyk, Claude Security, or any other application security tool via Tenable One Connectors—directly alongside your existing exposure data. What this means for you: Achieve full code-to-runtime visibility by bringing application security risks together with the rest of your exposure data in one place. Fix code flaws before they become incidents by identifying your most business-critical code flaws and fix them early in the development lifecycle. Measure organizational exposure and transform technical static code vulnerabilities into clear risk metrics on business resilience. Ready to integrate application security data into Tenable One? Read the blog post Explore the guided demo Check out Open Connector and Snyk Connector documentation
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.GA Release - Tenable ServiceNow Apps Now Australia Compatible!
Release Date: June 22, 2026 Included Applications and Versions: Service Graph Connector for Tenable: Version 6.3.0 Tenable for ITSM: Version 6.2.0 Vulnerability Response Integration with Tenable: Version 30.4.1 WHAT'S NEW? Tenable is excited to announce the General Availability for our ServiceNow apps, fully compatible with the Australia Platform Release. This rollout introduces significant feature updates, bug fixes, and stability enhancements across our core integration codebase: Configurable Asset Ingestion Limits: Resolves payload failures by collecting and deduping IP, FQDN, and MAC data on a per-asset basis before submitting to the Tenable Vulnerability Management API. It features an adjustable asset property ceiling that defaults to 100 records and can be scaled up to 1,000 for complex environments via a custom system property config. Predictive Asset Dropped Warning Logs: Adds clear localized logs inside ServiceNow that capture the impacted Configuration Item sys_id, the total volume of asset records received, and a structural breakdown of any metrics dropped when violating max limits. Codebase Security Hardening: Completely eliminates the deprecated global GlideEncrypter API call from our source codebase. This satisfies strict compliance criteria following customer instance health assessment scans that flag deprecated commands as security risks. Optimized OS Transformation Handling: Mitigates transactional script processing delays and timeout failures within the core cleanse() operation method. The updated connector parses choice items more efficiently against massive database environments with large sys_choice table counts. OT Device Schema Correction: Fixes data transformation crashes and java.lang.IllegalArgumentException errors when processing complex IT/OT hybrid nodes like workstations populated via WMI queries. The ingestion rules seamlessly process structural repetitions found within the hotFixes and devicesAndDrives sections of the API response without stalling the import set queue. PLATFORM COMPATIBILITY: Supported ServiceNow Releases: Australia, Zurich, Yokohama, and Xanadu. Supported Tenable Platforms: Tenable Vulnerability Management, Tenable Security Center version 5.7 or later, and Tenable OT Security QUESTIONS? We are here to help! Reach out to us at connect.tenable.com! -Ecosystem Product ManagementTenable Product Update Newsletter — June 2026
Check out our June newsletter to learn about the latest product and research updates, events, and educational content. Tenable One - Platform Updates Improve exposure prioritization in Tenable One with continuous security control validation As frontier AI models accelerate vulnerability discovery, the work of validating, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities alongside other security weaknesses to understand the true exposure they create has become much more urgent. Validation in exposure management is a key capability to help you understand which exposures attackers can actually reach by understanding the accessibility and exposure. Prioritize exposures more effectively by seeing which attack paths active prevention and detection controls mitigate. Accelerate investigations and triage by filtering top attack paths and attack techniques based on the presence of security controls. Understand control context and status by viewing security control information in the node details view. Check out continuous control validation in Tenable One: Read the blog post Explore the guided demo Read more about Attack Technique Details Tenable One Vulnerability Management Implement granular custom roles for enhanced access control Give your teams exactly the access they need to do their jobs — without exposing sensitive scan settings, sensors, or compliance reports. Streamline access control by building custom roles. You can now build granular custom roles that dictate exactly what your users can see and do within the platform. With straightforward, one-click toggles, you can grant read or full-write access to specific tools like scans, sensors, or reports. Your existing custom roles will automatically transition to this new format, so existing custom roles will transition seamlessly with no manual migration required. Take the guided walkthrough Read the documentation Review the best practice guide Gain comprehensive visibility into endpoint application risk Managing decentralized endpoint applications introduces visibility gaps. Focus your patching on the software your employees actually use, instead of chasing thousands of generic alerts. Get a single view of all software running on your endpoints with the new Endpoint Application Visibility and Exposures One-Stop Shop report. Prioritize fixes based on how widely an app is deployed and its actual risk to your business, rather than just relying on generic severity scores. Access the endpoint application visibility report Enhance your threat analysis expertise with specialist training You can now access the updated instructor-led Tenable One Vulnerability Management Specialist Course in Tenable University, featuring: Streamlined curriculum focusing on advanced analysis, enabling you to interpret data and counter threats faster. Deep dives into critical new features, including Vulnerability Intelligence and Exposure Response. Refreshed educational experience with hands-on lab exercises to solidify your expertise. Learn more about this course and other instructor-led and on-demand Tenable University training and certification offerings: Course details Tenable training and certification Tenable One Cloud Exposure Transform disparate alerts into one threat story with Tenable cloud detection and response Cloud detection and response (CDR) in Tenable One Cloud Exposure is now generally available, adding near-real-time behavioral detection across multi-cloud environments. Tenable CDR capabilities include: AI-powered threat stories: AI-powered threat stories automatically correlate related detections by actor, resource, and tactic, transforming hundreds of raw alerts into a clear narrative of the attack, allowing teams to start investigating instantly. Runtime vulnerability validation: Uses active scanning to confirm cloud resources that are reachable from the internet. Dual coverage: Combines agentless detections with an optional eBPF runtime sensor, giving security teams comprehensive near-real-time visibility across cloud workloads without sacrificing deployment flexibility or coverage. Guided response: As the agentic engine of Tenable One, Tenable Hexa AI is the intelligence layer that reasons across live exposure context, threat findings, and environment history to deliver a prioritized, actionable response plan, in plain language, at attacker speed. With Tenable CDR, teams can leverage AI-driven pathways to investigate and remediate with speed, drive informed, actionable resolution, close the exposure gap, and extend attack path analysis to holistic remediation of real threats. Watch the guided demo Tenable One OT Exposure Tenable OT Security 4.7 (early access) This release expands visibility for grid operators and disconnected environments, and introduces a variety of productivity enhancements to accelerate analyst workflows: Power substation anomaly detection: Passively monitor GOOSE streams and alert on anomalous activity to protect utility and grid operations from unauthorized modifications or replay attacks. Yokogawa DCS activity detection: Get deep visibility into engineering activities on Yokogawa systems to easily detect critical operations and unauthorized access. OT agent for disconnected environments: Secure air-gapped networks without deploying sensors or requiring live connectivity, featuring offline scan profiles and a local agent UI. Workflow and enterprise management enhancements: Centrally manage subnets from a single Enterprise Manager interface, and speed up recurring investigations with new Saved Views, a quick-access Asset Side Panel, and TLS Syslog support. Explore the user guide Review the release notes 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 Tenable Nessus Maximize your Nessus capabilities with the Tenable Documentation hub Optimize your vulnerability assessments and accelerate troubleshooting with the official Tenable Nessus Documentation hub. Want to ensure you’re getting the absolute most out of your vulnerability assessments? Whether you’re a seasoned security pro fine-tuning your environment or just setting up your first Nessus Pro or Expert deployment, the hub provides everything you need to optimize your security workflows and troubleshoot: Stay ahead of the curve: Instantly access the latest release notes, system requirements, and seamless upgrade guides. Optimize your assessments: Find step-by-step instructions for configuring and launching scans. Streamline your reporting: Learn exactly how to customize, generate, and export compliance-ready scan results in PDF, HTML, or CSV formats to keep your stakeholders informed. Bookmark the documentation site to quickly discover new features, resolve configuration questions, and keep your attack surface secure. Tenable Nessus documentation Tenable Patch Management Synchronize asset tags across patching workflows Sync your existing security tags directly with your patching workflows to eliminate manual setup and fix vulnerabilities faster. If you already group your devices using tags or asset lists in Tenable One Vulnerability Management or Tenable Security Center, those groups will automatically synchronize with your patch console. You can target them for patch schedules and deployment waves without rebuilding them from scratch. This update also extends full patch support to SUSE Linux 15 SP6 (Server & Desktop). Get the full update details on Tenable Connect Tenable events and 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 (APAC). Learn more and register Virtual events Tenable customer update, July 2026: Join the next quarterly customer update session at 11 a.m. EST/3 p.m. BST/5 p.m. CEST July 16. 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 AI Exposure, Tenable One Vulnerability Management, and Tenable Security Center. Register See all upcoming live and on-demand webinars Tenable Research Research security operations Read the latest insights from top security and data science researchers: Inside the customer environment: Where threat actors, vulnerabilities, and exposed assets intersect Key findings from the Verizon DBIR 2026 Read Tenable documentation.Improve exposure prioritization in Tenable One with continuous security control validation
The work of validating, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities alongside other security weaknesses to understand the true exposure they create has become much more urgent, as frontier AI models accelerate vulnerability discovery. Validation in exposure management is a key capability to help you understand which exposures attackers can actually reach by understanding the accessibility and exploitability of an attack path. Today, we’ve added important validation capabilities in Tenable One with continuous security control validation. By factoring in your active security controls, Tenable One helps eliminate the noise of theoretically exposed assets that are functionally blocked from exploitation. What this means for you: Prioritize exposures more effectively by seeing which attack paths are mitigated by active prevention and detection controls. Accelerate investigations and triage by filtering top attack paths and attack techniques based on the presence of security controls. Understand control context and status by viewing security control information in the node details view. Ready to check out continuous control validation in Tenable One? Read the blog post Explore the guided demo Read more about Attack Technique DetailsMay 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. 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