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Your role

Cyber security leader, risk management leader, security director

Cyber security practitioner and leader

Cyber security leader and practitioner

Cloud and cyber security architects and leaders, risk management practitioners, compliance practitioners, security directors

Consultant, penetration tester

Cyber security practitioner and leader

Cyber security leaders, active directory leaders, compliance practitioners

Cyber security (IT/OT) or compliance practitioner and compliance

Use case

Continuous exposure management

Continuous vulnerability management

Calculate, communicate and compare your cyber risk

Cloud native application protection, hybrid cloud security, multi-cloud security, cloud security posture management (CSPM), cloud vulnerability management, compliance and audit automation, cloud workload protection, cloud infrastructure entitlement management, cloud detection and response, IaC security scanning, just-in-time cloud access, Kubernetes security posture management, container security, and malware scanning

Periodic vulnerability assessment

Continuous vulnerability management

Active directory security

OT security, IT/OT convergence, risk management, compliance

Deployment type

Cloud-managed

Cloud-managed

Cloud-managed

Cloud-managed (SaaS)

On-prem

On-prem

Cloud or on-prem

On-prem

Number of assets

1,000,000s of assets

1,000,000s of assets

1,000,000s of assets

1,000,000s of assets

1,000s of IPs

100,000s of IPs

100,000s of objects

1,000’s per monitoring device

Type of assets

Traditional IT, cloud, containers, web apps, mobile, identity systems, internet-facing assets

Traditional IT, mobile, public cloud, web apps, docker containers

Traditional IT, mobile, public cloud

Multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes clusters, container images, virtual machines, serverless workloads, container registries, IaC repositories, and CI/CD pipelines

Traditional IT

Traditional IT, operational technology, mobile

All AD objects

Industrial control system assets (PLC, DCS, IED, HMI, SCADA and more)

Data collection sensors

Active scanning, agent scanning, passive network monitoring, web app scanning, public cloud connectors, Docker image inspection, agentless assessment, domain scanning, active directory assessment

Active scanning, agent scanning, passive network monitoring, public cloud connectors

Utilize scans from Tenable.sc and Tenable.io

Public cloud integrations, agentless assessment, cloud security posture scanning, Docker image inspection, CI/CD integrations, source code management, Kubernetes

Active scanning

Active scanning, agent scanning, passive network monitoring

Agentless, passive scanning, active directory sssessment

Passive monitoring, active querying

Vulnerability prioritization

CVSS, cyber exposure scores (CES), vulnerability prioritization rating (VPR), asset criticality rating (ACR), attack path analysis, recommended solutions

CVSS, vulnerability priority rating (VPR)

Cyber exposure scores (CES), vulnerability prioritization rating (VPR), asset criticality rating (ACR), assessment maturity scoring, CVSS

Contextualized risk prioritizations and automated identification of toxic combinations

CVSS

CVSS, vulnerability priority rating (VPR)

CVSS, vulnerability priority rating (VPR), asset criticality rating (ACR), MITRE, ATT&CK

CVSS, CVE, VPR through integration with Tenable.sc

Platform functionality

Unified visibility of assets and vulnerabilities, flexible asset-based license, customized reporting & sashboards, scan policy management, group & role-based access, asset management, continuous monitoring, cyber exposure scoring & trend analysis, internal & external benchmarking, score by business context, asset criticality analysis, cyber exposure reduction scoring

Customized reporting & dashboards, scan policy management, group & role-based access, asset management, continuous monitoring

Cyber exposure scoring & trend analysis, internal & external benchmarking, score by business context, asset criticality analysis, cyber exposure reduction scoring

Cloud infrastructure configuration scanning and asset discovery, identities and access governance and least privilege enforcement, agentless vulnerability scanning, automated compliance reporting, IaC security scanning and auto-remediation, CI/CD pipeline scanning, source dode management repository and container registry scanning, automated alerting, ITSM integrations (ServiceNow, Jira, etc.),and Kubernetes cluster scanning

Basic customized reporting

Customized reporting & dashboards, scan policy management, group & role-based access, asset management, continuous monitoring, host activity analytics, anomalous behavior analytics

Discovers, and scores existing weaknesses, uncovers and eliminates AD attack paths, and detects ongoing attacks

Single pane of glass visibility, threat detection and mitigation, asset tracking, vulnerability management, configuration control

Regulatory & compliance reporting

Configuration compliance audits, SCAP and OVAL audits, PCI DSS approved scanning vendor (ASV), cloud compliance assessments

Configuration compliance audits, SCAP and OVAL audits, PCI DSS approved scanning vendor (ASV)

From Tenable.io and Tenable.sc

Numerous industry standards and compliance benchmarks are supported including CIS, AWS Well Architected, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO, NIST, PCI, SOC2, MITRE ATT&CK and NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500

Configuration compliance audits, SCAP and OVAL audits, unofficial PCI DSS audits

Extensive policy and compliance reports with pre-defined checks against industry standards and regulations

Policy and compliance reports

NERC, NIST, NIS, AWIA

Third-party integrations

Pre-built integrations, open APIs and SDKs for custom integrations

Pre-built integrations, open APIs and SDKs for custom integrations

Pre-built integrations

Pre-built integrations including Jira, ServiceNow, ticketing, notification, and SIEM tools and identity provider tools like Okta and Entra ID

Report export API

Pre-built integrations, open APIs and SDKs for custom integrations

Pre-built integrations, open APIs

Pre-built integrations