Moving from Reactive Scanning to Unified Risk Management

Moving from reactive scanning to unified exposure management

As AI accelerates the speed of cyber attacks, point in time assessments are no longer enough to protect your organization. Discover how transitioning to a unified exposure management platform helps you gain continuous visibility, prioritize cyber risk, and automate remediation.

[00:00:01] The limitations of reactive scanning

Traditional vulnerability assessments leave critical gaps in your security posture.

• AI-driven threats: Attackers use AI to discover and exploit vulnerabilities at unprecedented speeds.
• Delayed visibility: Quarterly or monthly scans miss new vulnerabilities that appear between scan windows, leaving your organization exposed to cyber risk.

[00:04:31] The challenge of fragmented security tools

Organizations typically use multiple cybersecurity technologies, which creates siloed data and complicates risk prioritization.

• Siloed insights: Managing numerous discrete tools prevents security teams from seeing how different cyber risks correlate.
• Inconsistent scoring: Different tools use different metrics for reporting risk, making manual correlation nearly impossible for security teams.

[00:09:56] The exponential growth of CVEs

The volume and frequency of new vulnerabilities are breaking historical records and overwhelming traditional patch management processes.

• Record-breaking numbers: The National Vulnerability Database expects over 100,000 CVEs to be reported this year alone.
• Constant updates: Even basic desktop applications require multiple critical patches each week to mitigate new vulnerabilities.

[00:14:58] The shrinking time to exploitation

The window of time between a vulnerability being published and its active exploitation has practically disappeared.

• Negative timelines: AI enables attackers to exploit vulnerabilities before security teams can fully assess them.
• Machine-speed defense: You can no longer patch everything, which means you need tools that guide precise prioritization.

[00:20:04] Introducing Tenable One

The Tenable One platform integrates multiple sensors and third-party tools to provide a comprehensive view of your cyber exposure.

• Unified data fabric: Tenable One analyzes data from Tenable One Vulnerability Management, cloud security, identity exposure, and attack surface management.
• Contextual prioritization: By mapping relationships and combining signals, we help you visualize attack paths mapped directly to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

[00:25:01] Leveraging AI for orchestration and automation

Our agentic AI capabilities allow you to interact with your exposure data seamlessly and automate routine tasks.

• Natural language queries: Ask direct questions to identify top critical assets, active attack paths, or essential CVEs you need to remediate.
• Automated workflows: Instantly configure asset tagging, generate custom dashboards, and integrate with ticketing systems like ServiceNow and Jira.

[00:30:00] Aligning with the Gartner CTEM framework

Tenable capabilities fully support the five stages of the Continuous Threat Exposure Management program.

• Scoping and discovery: Identify every IT, cloud, OT, and identity asset in your environment using active and passive sensors.
• Prioritization and validation: Use our patented scoring technologies to understand exploitability and visualize complete attack paths.

[00:35:50] Adapting to new regulatory mandates

Regulators are shifting away from point in time compliance and demanding continuous visibility.

• Strict mitigation timelines: New guidelines require you to mitigate critical vulnerabilities on crown jewel assets within hours, not weeks.
• Continuous assessment: Tenable One helps you meet these aggressive regulatory timelines and avoid heavy compliance penalties.

[00:40:00] Automated patching and remediation

Integrate AI with your patch management tools to accelerate how you fix critical vulnerabilities.

• Prompt-based patching: Use natural language prompts to quickly identify and deploy necessary patches across your environment.
• Customizable workflows: Configure fully automated patching for minor updates or insert a human approval process for sensitive servers.

[00:46:15] Partnering with Anthropic

Tenable is collaborating with leading AI models to bring advanced threat intelligence directly into your exposure management platform.

• Frontier AI integration: We are integrating the latest Claude models into Tenable One to quickly discover zero-day vulnerabilities and generate dynamic attack path correlations.

[00:50:20] Q&A session

We answer audience questions about implementation, pricing, and specific AI features.

• Maturity assessments: The exposure management maturity assessment is a free, 20-question tool available to help you understand your current cyber risk posture.
• AI flexibility: You can use our API to integrate with the sanctioned AI tools already running securely in your environment.

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