“Tenable continues to extend its established vulnerability management offerings into exposure management with its Tenable One platform,” according to the report.
Big news: Tenable has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Unified Vulnerability Management Solutions, Q3 2025. We believe it’s recognition of what our customers and partners already know — Tenable is setting the standard for the future of preemptive security.
The report gave us the highest possible score in the strategy category and in the roadmap criterion, which we see as acknowledgement of what we’ve been saying for years: you need a new approach to cybersecurity, one that can keep up with your complex environments and the continual threats you face.
Unified Vulnerability Management is “a solution that serves as the primary book of record for all organizational vulnerabilities and improves and facilitates remediation workflows.”
— The Unified Vulnerability Management Solutions Landscape, Q1 20251, Forrester Research Inc
In this 2025 Wave, Forrester evaluated 10 vendors across 19 criteria. Tenable earned the highest possible score (5.0) in seven criteria:
- Breadth of assets supported
- Exposure assessment and prioritization
- Reporting
- Benchmarking
- Vision
- Roadmap
- Pricing flexibility and transparency
What is unified vulnerability management?
Forrester defines Unified Vulnerability Management as “a solution that serves as the primary book of record for all organizational vulnerabilities and improves and facilitates remediation workflows.”1
Unified vulnerability management addresses the challenges you face in dealing with a fragmented array of security tools and the complications that arise as you try to prioritize your vulnerability response efforts.
Why this matters
Traditional vulnerability management can’t keep up with today’s threat landscape. Security teams are buried in data, juggling disconnected tools and drowning in nonstop alerts. What’s needed is a new approach, one that delivers continuous visibility, deep context and decisive action. That’s exactly what Tenable provides.
Access The Forrester WaveTM: Unified Vulnerability Management Solutions, 3Q 2025
At Tenable, we believe unified vulnerability management is the natural evolution of traditional vulnerability management and is the bridge to full-fledged, proactive exposure management. It’s how you get ahead of attackers instead of always playing catch up.
Recognition of our vision
The Forrester report recognizes where we are — and where we’re going. It says: “Tenable continues to extend its established vulnerability management offerings into exposure management with its Tenable One platform. Tenable’s 2025 acquisition of Vulcan Cyber will enhance Tenable’s support for third-party vulnerability data.”
This isn’t just a roadmap, it’s a reality. In May, we introduced the first set of new Tenable One Connectors, making it easier than ever to unify data from across your security silos — including vulnerability management, cloud security, endpoint security, operational technology (OT) and internet of things (IoT) security, application security, configuration management databases (CMDBs) and more — alongside your native Tenable findings.
Built for now. Designed for what’s next.
To us, Tenable’s placement as a leader in this report reflects more than product features. It reflects a strategy that is already helping our customers shift from reactive patching to proactive risk reduction.
According to the Forrester report, “Tenable’s vision considers how proactive security teams will need new strategies to address attackers’ evolving techniques over the next three to five years. Its strategy is complemented by a strong roadmap that includes expanding remediation and response capabilities, with a significant focus on remediation orchestration.”
We believe this long-term thinking, paired with a proven record of innovation, is why Tenable was ranked highest in the strategy category. We are honored by this recognition and, more importantly, we are proud to deliver value that helps our customers protect what matters most.
Learn more
1The Unified Vulnerability Management Solutions Landscape, Q1 2025, Forrester Research Inc., March 14, 2025.
Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. For more information, read about Forrester’s objectivity here.