In Cybersecurity, We Have to Work Together

The future of cybersecurity depends on open, collaborative platforms that bring the industry's best solutions together.

Let's be real: the old, siloed way of doing cybersecurity is dead. For years, security has been stuck in a painful cycle. Teams are faced with reacting to a flood of alerts, an endless list of "critical" vulnerabilities and a constant, nagging feeling that they’re always one step behind. This isn't just a feeling; it's a reality created by trying to use yesterday's siloed and reactive approach for today's problems. Traditional vulnerability management, built for a simpler time of static servers and clear perimeters, needs to be combined with other strategies to proactively protect complex environments. Open, collaborative security isn't just a "nice-to-have" — it's the only way forward.

The average company is juggling 83 different security tools. While each serves a purpose, they often operate in isolation, creating a chaotic and disjointed view of the attack surface. This fragmentation leads to a "prioritization crisis," where security teams are inundated with high-volume, low-context alerts from disparate systems. They are forced to waste critical time manually reconciling data instead of stopping threats. This chaos is exactly what attackers love. It creates dangerous blind spots they can slip through while your security team is busy trying to manually connect the dots.

In this environment, a closed-off platform isn’t just an inconvenience — it’s a security risk. To effectively manage exposure, organizations need a central hub for security data, analytics and unified risk reduction that can see everything and connect everything. Attackers don’t play by the rules or stay in one lane, and our defenses shouldn't either. That’s where exposure management comes in.

A new, more open approach to cybersecurity

In today’s complex threat landscape, a fragmented view of your security tools is a liability. Attackers thrive in the blind spots created by disconnected tools, exploiting the very gaps that siloed systems perpetuate. It’s time for a new approach. One that moves beyond isolated flaws and sees the bigger picture. One that helps you think like an attacker. This is the shift to exposure management, and it runs on a single, non-negotiable principle: openness.

An effective exposure management program must serve as the central hub for your entire security ecosystem, and that's exactly what we've built Tenable One to be. With over 300 integrations, we're not just collecting data; we're giving you the power to see your environment in a completely new way.

This is why we are proud to announce a major new milestone in our mission to provide unified, contextualized risk reduction. The Tenable One Exposure Management Platform now has over 300 validated integrations — it’s now the most open and connected exposure management platform out there. This is more than a technical achievement; it represents a fundamental shift in cyber control and a commitment to solving our customers' most pressing challenges.

How Tenable One unifies visibility, insights and action

Tenable One uniquely solves the challenges facing siloed security teams by serving as the essential connective tissue for the modern security stack. The platform is purpose-built to eliminate silos by unifying data from across the technology ecosystem — from endpoint detection and response (EDR) and cloud native application protection platforms (CNAPPs) to privileged access management (PAM) and IT service management.

Let's look at what Tenable One enables you to do differently:

Slay the "critical" vulnerability that isn't

The old way: Your vulnerability scanner flags a CVE with a 9.8 "critical" CVSS score. Immediately, it's an all-hands-on-deck fire drill. The problem is that CVSS score is a theoretical number assigned in a vacuum. It has no idea if the asset is a crown-jewel database or a test machine in a sandbox. Your team spends hours or days chasing it down, pulling resources from other critical tasks.

The Tenable One (open) way: That same "critical" alert comes into Tenable One, but it doesn't stay in a silo. It’s enriched.

• We automatically pull data from your external attack surface management (EASM) tool and see the asset isn't even exposed to the internet.
• We connect to your CMDB and learn it’s a non-production development server with no sensitive data.
• We check your EDR solution and confirm a compensating control is already in place that would mitigate the risk.
• We correlate this with real-time threat intelligence and see no one is actively exploiting this CVE in the wild.

The outcome: Instead of a fire drill, it's a non-issue. The "critical" vulnerability is automatically de-prioritized with zero human effort. Your team never gets the alert, because it was filtered out by real-world context. They can now focus their time on the handful of exposures that represent genuine, validated business risk.

Uncover the attacker's playbook before they use it

The old way: Your security stack is a collection of lonely islands. Your cloud team sees a misconfigured storage bucket. Your identity team sees a set of credentials with too many permissions. Your IT team sees a known software vulnerability on a server. Each issue, viewed in isolation, is logged as a low-priority ticket and sent to a different team's backlog. No one realizes these are three pieces of a single, devastating attack path.

The Tenable One (open) way: We ingest all those seemingly unrelated findings and our platform gets to work.

• First, we aggregate, normalize and deduplicate the information, creating a single, unified view of the assets involved. No more guessing if "Server A" and "IP 10.1.1.5" are the same thing.
• Then, we perform the most critical step: correlation. Our platform automatically connects the dots and visualizes the attack path. We show you precisely how an attacker could leverage the misconfigured bucket to access the network, use the over-privileged account to move laterally and exploit the final vulnerability to compromise your critical data.

The outcome: Three low-priority tickets are transformed into one high-priority, evidence-backed security finding. Better yet, you can now take the most efficient action to break the chain, which might not be patching the server, but simply revoking the excess permissions or fixing the initial misconfiguration. You’re not just patching; you’re proactively dismantling the attacker's path of least resistance.

The impact of Tenable’s open ecosystem is measurable. Some customers report up to 10x greater visibility and have reduced the time spent aggregating disparate data by 75%, freeing their teams to focus on preemptive, risk-based operations. You can stop chasing theoretical ghosts and start severing real attack paths, reporting on tangible risk reduction and protecting what matters most.

Better with partners

Our huge ecosystem of integrations is proof that collaboration works. Tenable teams up with the biggest names in tech to make sure our customers get the most out of their security tools.

These partnerships go beyond just technology; they show our shared commitment to giving our customers a simpler, more effective security experience.

The future is open

Our philosophy is clear: vendor lock-in is dead and integration wins.

No single company can solve every security challenge alone. The future of cybersecurity depends on open, collaborative platforms that bring the industry's best solutions together. We're proud to be leading the way in building that future for everyone.

Learn more

• Visit the Tenable Assure Exposure Management Technology Ecosystem page
• Access The Forrester Wave^TM: Unified Vulnerability Management Solutions, 3Q 2025
• Read the blog A Unified Approach to Exposure Management: Introducing Tenable One Connectors and Customized Risk Dashboard