A Unified Approach to Exposure Management: Introducing Tenable One Connectors and Customized Risk Dashboards – Blog

Unified visibility and context are the keys to an effective exposure management program. Learn how the new Tenable One connectors and unified dashboards give you a comprehensive view of your attack surface, help you streamline decision-making and empower your teams to uncover hidden risks, prioritize critical exposures and respond to threats with confidence.

In 2022, we unveiled a vision of how proactive cybersecurity processes needed to evolve. Legacy approaches relied on siloed tools and disconnected teams to deliver patchwork security across IT, cloud, application and OT environments. The problem, back then as it still is today, was that attackers don’t work in silos, and many exploited this limitation by finding entry points and escalating privileges in the cracks between various tools. Our goal was to enable organizations to secure all attack surfaces, leveraging context to more effectively prioritize critical risks and collaborate more efficiently with remediation stakeholders to address issues faster. We called this new discipline Exposure Management and launched one of the industry’s first Exposure Management platforms, Tenable One.

Since then, we’ve been hard at work to make this vision a reality for our customers, releasing numerous enhancements to help you unify visibility, insight and action to reduce cyber risk. And we’re excited to announce a new milestone in our exposure management journey: the ability to connect your cybersecurity tool data — alongside your Tenable data — into Tenable One for a truly unified view of assets and exposures and a holistic view of risk. The need to integrate data from your security stack is no longer just a nice-to-have option — it’s an essential component of exposure management so you can understand your organization’s exposure in full context.

Unlocking full visibility: Tenable One connectors (available now!)

Tenable is turning the page to a new chapter in exposure management — one in which fragmented visibility doesn’t hold teams back. The new Tenable One connectors make it easy to bring in data from across your security ecosystem — including vulnerability management, cloud security, endpoint security, OT/IoT security, application security, CMDBs, and more — alongside your native Tenable findings.

This isn’t just about collecting more data. It’s about unlocking a truly unified, contextual view of your entire attack surface.

With Tenable One connectors, you can:

• Manage risk from one place — Eliminate tool sprawl and operational silos with a single, unified platform.
• Detect toxic risk combinations — Spot where unpatched vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and excessive permissions come together to create critical exposure points.
• Prioritize critical exposures — Use cross-domain prioritization to zero in on the highest-impact risks, instead of trying to tackle every issue
• Maximize ROI — Streamline processes, cut costs and maximize the value of existing security investments by ensuring tools work together for better outcomes.

These third-party insights enhance every part of the Tenable One platform:

• A single, unified Inventory of asset and risk data across the attack surface

  

• Richer context in Exposure Signals to support smarter, cross-domain prioritization

  

• Consolidated Exposure Cards that bring all your risk data together for a comprehensive view of your risk posture.

  

Holistic risk analysis: Unified dashboards in Tenable One (available now!)

And we didn’t stop there. Another critical piece of the exposure management puzzle is how teams analyze and report on risk. Until now, doing so meant bouncing between tools, exporting reports and stitching together dashboards from fragmented data sources.

No more.

With unified dashboards in Tenable One, security teams can finally get a holistic view of their attack surface — all in one place.

Tenable One Dashboards allow teams to:

• Leverage pre-built dashboards — Access best-practice dashboards for quick, actionable insights into common security use cases.
• Create custom dashboards — Use a library of over 40 customizable widgets to build dashboards tailored to any use case or audience.
• Design custom widgets — Develop bespoke widgets that highlight specific data points and metrics that are most relevant to your security needs.
• Dive deeper with powerful filters — Apply customizable filters, slice data, and choose from various chart types to drill into the details and analyze trends with precision.
• Share and collaborate — Make dashboards private or share them across teams and easily export them in multiple formats for better collaboration.

Whether you’re reporting to your CISO or digging deep into root causes, Tenable One Dashboards bring clarity and focus to your risk management efforts.

Experience Tenable One connectors and dashboards in action. Explore our guided demo to see how these new capabilities come to life in Tenable One: