Tenable Holdings, Inc. operates as a provider of exposure management solutions.
The company’s exposure management program solves three distinct real-world challenges facing cybersecurity professionals and their organizations:
The attack surface isn’t siloed, but security programs often are;
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 com...
Tenable Holdings, Inc. operates as a provider of exposure management solutions.
The company’s exposure management program solves three distinct real-world challenges facing cybersecurity professionals and their organizations:
The attack surface isn’t siloed, but security programs often are;
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 the company’s Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, or Tenable One, help address these real-world 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
Take swift action to eradicate priority cyber exposures and reduce business risk.
Enterprise Platform Offerings
Tenable One is an AI-powered exposure management platform that gives enterprises a single, unified view of risk across all types of assets and attack pathways. The platform combines broad, industry-leading vulnerability coverage, spanning IT assets, cloud resources, containers, web apps and identity systems. Tenable One builds on the speed and breadth of vulnerability coverage from the company’s research team of cybersecurity and data science experts, or Tenable Research, and adds aggregated exposure view analytics, guidance on mitigating attack pathways, centralized asset inventory and patch management that correlates vulnerabilities with remediation actions. It leverages AI, and machine learning, or ML, rapidly analyzing and interpreting vast data sets to pinpoint priority weaknesses and high-risk attack paths, deliver recommendations and automate routine tasks.
Tenable One integrates the following products and tools:
Tenable Vulnerability Management
The company’s cloud-delivered software-as-a-service, or SaaS, vulnerability management offering provides organizations with a risk-based view of traditional and modern attack surfaces. Tenable Vulnerability Management empowers organizations to know, expose and close their critical vulnerabilities. The solution is designed to find hidden vulnerabilities with continuous, always-on asset discovery and assessment of known and unknown assets–even highly dynamic cloud or remote workforce assets–in an environment. Tenable Vulnerability Management also identifies which vulnerabilities to fix first with automated prioritization that combines vulnerability data, threat intelligence and data science.
Tenable Cloud Security
The company’s cloud security solution that helps organizations reduce risk by rapidly exposing and closing priority security gaps caused by misconfigurations, risky entitlements and vulnerabilities in one powerful cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP). The company’s cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) gives users control over access entitlements, so they eradicate exposures caused by human and service identities in the cloud and achieve least-privilege access to cloud resources and data at scale.
Tenable Identity Exposure
The company’s solution offers end-to-end protection from identity-based threats by unifying identities across Active Directory, hybrid and Entra ID. Users find and fix existing weaknesses before they are exploited and detect and respond to ongoing attacks in real time without the need to deploy agents or use privileged accounts.
Tenable Web App Scanning
The company is easy-to-use, comprehensive and automated Vulnerability Scanning for modern web applications, which allows organizations to quickly configure and manage web app scans, enabling them to identify vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation.
Tenable Lumin Exposure View
The company’s measurement tool, which leverages its expansive knowledge base of assets and vulnerabilities coupled with data science insights, to help the company’s customers score, trend and benchmark cyber risk across their organizations, including by business unit or geography, for comparison and best practices. The company’s capability is critical to help security executives effectively translate technical information and communicate cybersecurity risk to a non-technical audience, including the C-suite and the board of directors, to enable them to make better strategic decisions on where to focus investment to maximize cybersecurity risk reduction.
Tenable Attack Surface Management
The company’s solution continuously maps the internet to deliver comprehensive visibility into internet-facing assets, even those security teams don't know about, so they assess the cybersecurity posture of their entire external attack surface for a more complete picture of where they be exposed.
Tenable Security Center
The company’s on-premises vulnerability management offering that provides a risk-based view of an organization’s IT, security and compliance posture so organizations quickly identify, investigate and prioritize their assets and vulnerabilities based on risk assessment and predictive analytics, and provide insightful remediation guidance.
Tenable OT Security
The company’s unified security solution for converged OT/IoT environments provides threat detection, asset tracking, vulnerability management, and configuration control capabilities to protect OT environments, including industrial networks.
Nessus Solutions
The company’s Nessus product line is one of the most widely deployed vulnerability assessment solutions in the cybersecurity industry and underpins its enterprise platform. Since the introduction of Nessus in 1998, the company built and nurtured an extensive community of Nessus users. The company continues to cultivate knowledge and affinity within this user base, which, when combined with its enterprise customers and Tenable Research, creates powerful network effects in the form of a continuous feedback loop of data and insights. The company uses these learnings to expand its assessment capabilities and coverage, continually optimize the company’s solutions and inform its product strategy and innovation priorities. The company believes these data and insights also fuel and strengthen its benchmarking capabilities over time.
Technology Ecosystem
The company has partnered and/or integrated with market leading technology companies to pioneer the industry’s first exposure management ecosystem to help organizations build resilient cybersecurity programs. The company’s ecosystem consists of a variety of third-party data import sources integrated into its platform offerings, as well as export of the company’s data out to third-party IT systems. The company’s technology ecosystem connects disparate solutions and data to automate processes and accelerate an organization’s ability to understand, manage and reduce its cyber risk.
The company integrates a variety of third-party data sources, including ticketing, configuration management databases, or CMDBs, and systems management, into its platform to augment the company’s native data collection and help with analysis and remediation prioritization. Furthermore, the company’s data is exported out to enrich third-party IT management and security systems.
Growth Strategy
The company’s strategies are to continue to acquire new enterprise platform customers; expand asset coverage within the company’s customer base; invest in its technology platform; and explore acquisition opportunities.
Customers
The company’s customers are located in over 170 countries and include organizations of all sizes and span a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, energy and industrials; technology, media and telecommunications; banking, insurance and finance; government, education and non-profit; healthcare; and retail and consumer.
As of December 31, 2024, the company has approximately 44,000 customers. As of December 31, 2024, the company’s customers included approximately 65% of the Fortune 500 and approximately 50% of the Global 2000 and large government agencies.
Sales and Marketing
The company’s sales strategy employs both a direct-touch approach through its sales force and a low-touch approach through sales closed by the company’s channel partners and on its e-commerce website. Both direct-touch and channel-originated sales are fulfilled through its channel partnerships. The company’s sales and customer success renewal teams collaborate closely with its channel partners to prospect, manage and support its customers, developing and maintaining close relationships with all the company’s enterprise platform customers.
The company sells to organizations of all sizes across a broad range of industries, with a specific focus on enterprise accounts. The company’s sales team is divided by customer size and geography, including the Americas; Europe, the Middle East and Africa, or EMEA; and Asia Pacific and Japan.
The company’s partner ecosystem provides it with a number of advantages, including increased in-bound registered sales leads, broader geographic reach and greater deal velocity. The company’s channel partners include distributors, value-added resellers, system integrators and managed security service providers.
The company’s marketing initiatives cultivate brand awareness and leverage its track record of innovation in exposure management to expand into new markets, such as cloud security. The company focuses on building demand across all segments with a specific emphasis on its enterprise customers and delivering tailored marketing programs for security executives, functional managers, security practitioners, managed service providers and consultants. The company’s marketing efforts are also designed to establish the Tenable brand as a thought leader and trusted resource of credible educational information and original research. The company provides a variety of educational resources for cybersecurity practitioners and leaders, as well as cloud security teams, DevOps teams, OT practitioners and identity and access management practitioners, including a community forum where customers ask questions of the company’s experts and their peers. The company execute marketing programs targeted at new customer acquisition, customer retention and cross-selling and up-selling of products across its platform.
Competition
The company’s competitors include: vulnerability management and assessment vendors, including Qualys and Rapid7; diversified security software and services vendors; endpoint security vendors with vulnerability assessment capabilities, including CrowdStrike; public cloud vendors and other companies, such as Palo Alto Networks and Wiz, that offer solutions for cloud security (private, public and hybrid cloud); and providers of point solutions that compete with some of the features in the company’s solutions.
Intellectual Property
As of December 31, 2024, the company has 47 issued patents and 22 patent applications pending in the United States. As of December 31, 2024, the company has 18 registered trademarks in the United States.
The company has registered the ‘Tenable’ and ‘Nessus,’ and its Tenable logo in the United States and certain other countries.
Government Regulation
The company’s subject to numerous data privacy and security obligations, including federal, state, local, and foreign laws, regulations, guidance, and industry standards related to data privacy and security. Such obligations include, without limitation, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, or, collectively, the CCPA, the Colorado Privacy Act, Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act, the Connecticut Privacy Act, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act and similar U.S. state comprehensive privacy laws, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, or EU GDPR, the EU GDPR as it forms part of the United Kingdom law by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act of 2018, or UK GDPR, and the ePrivacy Directive.
Like other U.S.-based IT security products, the company’s products are subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations, specifically the Export Administration Regulations, or EAR, U.S. economic and trade sanctions regulations and applicable foreign government import, export and use requirements.
History
Tenable Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2002. The company was incorporated in Delaware in 2015.