Business Description

Overview Tenable is the leading provider of exposure management solutions. Exposure management is an increasingly critical category that extends foundational vulnerability management capabilities to advance risk assessment and prioritization across the entire attack surface – from IT infrastructure and cloud environments to critical infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI). Tenable unifies security visibility, insight and action across this attack surface, equipping modern organizations to quickly identify and close the cybersecurity gaps that erode business value, reputation and trust. Business dynamics continue to shift under pressure of geopolitical tensions, talent shortages, the push for greater automation, unrelenting compliance and regulatory pressures, along with the drive to out-innovate and out-pace competitors. AI is now a constant undercurrent and is recognized as both a business enabler and a cybersecurity risk. For most organizations, the attack surface has expanded to include: • Complex and dynamic hybrid and multi-cloud environments, which organizations are rapidly adopting even as they face a shortage of cloud security expertise; • AI platforms, including agentic AI, the use of which is introducing risk by creating often-invisible security gaps and blind spots; • Human, machine and AI identities, the dramatic rise of which is creating a sense of urgency to improve governance and access controls, and the removal of excessive privileges that can open up attack pathways within an organization; • An assortment of operational technology, or OT, such as industrial control systems, or ICS, and supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA systems, which are increasingly at risk due to AI growth velocity — emerging use cases for OT include AI data centers that are being built all around the world; • Personal devices, including mobile phones and tablets, internet of things, or IoT, devices and other types of “shadow IT” and "shadow AI" used by employees, often without the knowledge of the IT and security teams; and • Virtual machines, microservices, open-source code repositories, containers and other tools used by DevOps teams. The complexity of the attack surface is a key driver behind the growing need for exposure management programs. Scattered products and siloed views have left organizations struggling to hold back threats across a fragmented attack surface. Security teams are overwhelmed by the constant influx of data from the array of point solutions they are using to manage cloud assets, interconnected vulnerabilities, web applications, and identity systems. They are also challenged with effectively analyzing all that data to make informed decisions about which exposures represent the greatest risk to the organization. Existing point solutions cannot adequately address the central security challenge: a deeply divided approach to seeing and reducing cyber risk. We believe an exposure management program can solve three distinct challenges facing cybersecurity professionals, including chief information security officers, or CISOs, and their organizations: • The attack surface isn’t siloed, but security programs often are — making organizations ill-prepared to protect against attackers that are traversing from domain to domain (not silo to silo) to find exposures to exploit; • There’s more data than ever, yet it’s difficult for security professionals to analyze cyber risk context and insights to identify true exposures; and • Security professionals and business leaders lack a common risk language to align and mobilize responses. An exposure management program, underpinned by a technology platform such as our Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, or Tenable One, can help address these problems. Successfully implemented, an exposure management platform allows organizations to: • Gain comprehensive visibility across the modern attack surface; • Bring cyber risk context and insights from across the attack surface together as one; and 5 Table of Contents • Take swift action to eradicate priority cyber exposures and reduce business risk. To be effective, an exposure management platform must extend beyond traditional vulnerability management, which concentrates on the discovery and remediation of publicly disclosed Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, or CVEs.…