Tenable is the vulnerability-management pioneer behind Nessus, serving enterprises and government with an asset-priced subscription portfolio. It offers Tenable Vulnerability Management (SaaS), Web App Scanning, Cloud Security, and on-prem Security Center, with both agent-based and agentless authenticated scanning. Findings are risk-prioritized via VPR (Vulnerability Priority Rating). Commercial and proprietary, licensed by annual subscription per asset; FedRAMP-authorized for government use.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2002
- Pricing tier
- High
- Startup-friendly
- No
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Vulnerability management
- Agent-based
- Yes
- Agentless scanning
- Yes
- Web app scanning (DAST)
- Yes
- Container scanning
- Yes
- Cloud scanning
- Yes
- Risk prioritization
- Yes
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Free tier
- No
Cloud security (CSPM/CNAPP)
- Agentless scanning
- Yes
- CSPM (posture)
- Yes
- CWPP (workload)
- Yes
- CIEM (entitlements)
- Yes
- IaC scanning
- Yes
- Kubernetes security
- Yes
- Multi-cloud
- Yes
- Open-source
- No
- Free tier
- No
Categories & compliance
Categories
Compliance
ISO27001FedRAMPCSA-STAR