Tenable

Tenable is an exposure management company. Its primary mission is to empower organizations to understand and reduce their cybersecurity risk. Tenable aims to achieve this by providing solutions that offer continuous visibility and contextual insight across the modern attack surface, enabling businesses to proactively manage and mitigate threats. This includes protecting against attacks from IT infrastructure to cloud environments and critical infrastructure.

Tenable’s goal is to be a strategic partner to its customers by delivering innovative solutions that help them see and secure any digital asset on any computing platform. The company strives to eliminate blind spots and assist organizations in prioritizing actions to efficiently reduce exposure and potential loss. Tenable is recognized as a leader in the vulnerability management market, a reputation built on the heritage of its Nessus vulnerability scanner. It serves a global customer base that includes a significant portion of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, as well as large government agencies.

Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations

Tenable is an exposure management company that provides solutions to help organizations understand and reduce their cybersecurity risk. Tenable’s platform aims to unify visibility, insight, and action across the entire attack surface, including IT infrastructure, cloud environments, operational technology (OT), and identity systems. This comprehensive approach to exposure management, which includes robust cloud security and vulnerability management tools, allows organizations to identify, assess, and remediate security risks. Tenable’s offerings are designed to translate technical asset, vulnerability, and threat data into business insights and actionable intelligence. The company’s focus on continuous monitoring, extensive vulnerability research, and the ability to integrate with a broad ecosystem of third-party security tools provide a competitive edge. This allows Tenable to help organizations proactively defend against attacks and reduce business risk.

Products and Services

Tenable offers a suite of products and services designed to address various aspects of cybersecurity and exposure management. Its flagship product line is Nessus, a widely deployed vulnerability assessment solution.

• Tenable One: An exposure management platform that unifies various Tenable capabilities to provide a comprehensive view of cyber risk across IT assets, cloud resources, containers, web applications, and identity platforms. It combines vulnerability management, web application security, cloud security, and identity security.
• Tenable Vulnerability Management (formerly Tenable.io): A cloud-based platform for managing vulnerabilities, providing continuous visibility and monitoring of assets on-premises and in the cloud. It includes capabilities for web application scanning and container security.
• Tenable Security Center (formerly SecurityCenter): An on-premises vulnerability management solution that provides continuous network monitoring, vulnerability assessment, and reporting.
• Tenable Cloud Security (formerly Tenable.cs and incorporating Accurics technology): A Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that provides end-to-end security from code to cloud to workload. It includes Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), Cloud Workload Protection (CWP), Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM), and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security.
• Tenable Identity Exposure (formerly Tenable.ad): A solution that provides proactive security for identity systems like Active Directory (AD) and Entra ID, detecting misconfigurations and attack paths.
• Tenable OT Security (formerly Tenable.ot or Indegy): An industrial security solution designed to protect operational technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) environments by identifying assets, assessing risks, and detecting threats.
• Nessus Professional: A widely used vulnerability scanner for identifying vulnerabilities across a variety of assets.
• Tenable Web App Scanning: Provides automated vulnerability scanning for web applications.
• Tenable Attack Surface Management: Offers visibility into internet-connected assets to identify blind spots and unknown risks.
• Tenable Patch Management: A solution to help organizations quickly fix vulnerabilities through automation and real-time analytics.
• Tenable Lumin: A product that allows organizations to calculate, communicate, and compare their cyber risk.
• Tenable PCI ASV: Helps streamline and automate PCI ASV compliance.
• Tenable Enclave Security: A product listed among Tenable’s offerings.

Tenable One is positioned as a leading exposure management platform, unifying many of these individual product capabilities. Tenable continues to innovate, for instance, by integrating AI-driven analytics into its platform and expanding its cloud security offerings.

Target Customers

Tenable serves a broad range of customers across various industries and sizes, from small and medium-sized businesses to large enterprises, including a significant portion of the Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, as well as large government agencies. Its solutions are utilized by organizations in sectors such as finance, healthcare, technology, government, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure. These organizations benefit from Tenable’s products and services by gaining comprehensive visibility into their attack surface, enabling them to identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities effectively. This helps them reduce cyber risk, ensure compliance with various regulations (like PCI DSS, HIPAA), and protect critical assets from cyber threats. Organizations focused on proactive risk management and threat detection, and those with complex IT, cloud, and OT environments, find value in Tenable’s exposure management capabilities.

Cloud Integrations and Marketplaces

Tenable offers a range of cloud integrations and maintains a presence on major cloud marketplaces, enabling customers to secure their cloud environments.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS): Tenable is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner with a security competency. Tenable’s offerings on the AWS Marketplace include Tenable Vulnerability Management (formerly Tenable.io), Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Core + Tenable Nessus, Tenable Core + Tenable Security Center, Tenable Core + OT Security Enterprise Manager, and Tenable Core + Tenable Web App Scanning. These solutions provide vulnerability management, cloud security posture management, and agentless assessment for AWS environments. Tenable integrates with various AWS services, including AWS Control Tower for automated connector deployment, AWS Security Hub for a unified view of security information, and AWS Systems Manager Run Command for Frictionless Assessment. Tenable One, its exposure management platform, is built on AWS. Tenable offers different purchasing options on the AWS Marketplace, including public offers for small to medium businesses, Consulting Partner Private Offers (CPPO) for commercial and enterprise customers, and Enterprise Discount Programs. Licensing for Tenable products on AWS is often managed through AWS License Manager. The AWS Connector for Tenable Vulnerability Management provides real-time visibility and inventory of EC2 assets.
• Microsoft Azure: Tenable provides solutions for Microsoft Azure, offering security visibility, auditing, and system hardening. Tenable’s offerings can be found on the Azure Marketplace and include Tenable Core Nessus (BYOL), Tenable.sc (now Tenable Security Center), and the Tenable App for Microsoft Sentinel. Tenable integrates with Microsoft Sentinel, exporting asset and vulnerability data from Tenable Vulnerability Management directly to Sentinel for enhanced collection, detection, and investigation capabilities. Tenable Cloud Security offers an Azure Pipelines extension to scan container images and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for security issues. Tenable.io (now Tenable Vulnerability Management) has an Azure Connector for real-time visibility and inventory of Azure assets. Tenable also offers integrations to pull Tenable Vulnerability Management vulnerabilities from Azure assets and create Azure Security Center recommendations.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Tenable integrates with Google Cloud Platform to offer security visibility, auditing, system hardening, and continuous monitoring. Tenable Vulnerability Management integrates with Google Cloud Security Command Center (Cloud SCC), feeding asset and vulnerability data into Cloud SCC for a unified view. This integration helps security teams identify and mitigate threats to cloud resources. Tenable.io (now Tenable Vulnerability Management) can be configured for integration with Google Security Operations SOAR for entity enrichment and other actions. Tenable One also integrates with Google Cloud Platform.

Beyond these major cloud providers, Tenable also integrates with other platforms and services such as ServiceNow, Atlassian Jira, Elastic, and Datadog to provide a more comprehensive view of cyber exposure.

Key People

• Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer: Steve Vintz.
• Co-Chief Executive Officer: Mark Thurmond.
• Chairman: Arthur W. Coviello, Jr.
• Chief Product Officer: Eric Doerr.
• Chief Security Officer, Head of Research and President of Tenable Public Sector, LLC: Robert Huber.
• Chief Revenue Officer: Dave Feringa.
• Chief Marketing Officer: Meg O’Leary.
• Chief People and Culture Officer: Bridgett Paradise.
• Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel: Michelle VonderHaar.
• Chief Information Officer: Patricia Grant.
• Executive Vice President, Operations, Global Business Development and Channels: Terry Dolce.
• Senior Vice President, Global Government Affairs: James Hayes.

Key Facts

• Headquarters Location: Columbia, Maryland, U.S.
• Number of Employees: Approximately 1,999 (as of 2023)
• Annual Revenue: $799 million (2023)
• Parent Company: None (Tenable Holdings, Inc. is a publicly traded company)
• Subsidiary Companies: Approximately 8, including Tenable, Inc., Accurics, Inc., Ermetic, Ltd., Tenable Network Security Ireland Limited, Alsid SAS, Tenable Public Sector LLC, Indegy Ltd., and Vulcan Cyber Ltd.
• Publicly Listed: Yes (Nasdaq: TENB)

Analyst Recognition

Tenable has been recognized by multiple analyst groups for its capabilities in the cybersecurity market, particularly in vulnerability risk management and exposure management.

• Forrester: Tenable was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Vulnerability Risk Management, Q3 2023. Tenable ranked highest among 11 vendors in the Strategy and Current Offering categories. Forrester noted that “Tenable sets the tone for proactive security” and that its Tenable One platform is “one of the first to embrace the exposure management categorization”. Tenable also received the highest possible scores in 14 criteria, including Vision, Roadmap, Innovation, Asset Types, Exposure Types, Exploitability, Attack Path Modeling, and Out of the Box Reporting. In an earlier report, The Forrester Wave™: Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security Solutions, Q4 2021, Tenable was also named a Leader. Tenable received the highest possible scores in seven criteria in this ICS report, including ICS Protocol Support, Vulnerability Risk Management for Operational Technology, and Execution Roadmap.
• IDC: Tenable was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Platforms 2023 Vendor Assessment. The report highlighted that “Tenable One brings together several sources of exposure into an aggregate platform so that they can be prioritized holistically”. IDC has also ranked Tenable #1 for worldwide market share in device vulnerability management for six consecutive years, as of the July 2024 report (covering 2023 market share).
• Gartner: While specific recent Magic Quadrant placements for overall Vulnerability Management were not detailed in the provided search snippets, Gartner has referenced Tenable in the context of Vulnerability Assessment and its evolution towards Exposure Management. A Gartner Market Guide for Vulnerability Management mentions Tenable as a representative vendor. Tenable’s website also mentions being a 2021 Gartner Representative Vendor in Vulnerability Assessment.
• Everest Group: No specific recognitions of Tenable by Everest Group were found in the provided search results. The search results did mention Everest Group reports on cybersecurity services and intelligent process automation, but did not specifically place Tenable within those categories.