“Tenable’s asset and attack surface coverage, its application of AI and its reputation for vulnerability assessment makes it the front-runner in AI-powered exposure assessment,” Gartner writes in “AI Vendor Race: Tenable Is the Company to Beat for AI-Powered Exposure Assessment.”

To protect today’s expanding attack surface, organizations need to adopt an exposure management platform that holistically and proactively secures all types of assets everywhere: cloud workloads, on-prem servers, operational technology (OT) systems, IoT devices, artificial intelligence tools, and more.

And in order to continuously detect, correlate, and analyze all of these assets’ exposures – including vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, identity flaws, and unprotected data – your exposure management platform must have robust AI capabilities.

That’s exactly how we’ve built the Tenable One exposure management platform. Today, we’re proud to share the latest recognition for Tenable One.

In its recent publication “AI Vendor Race: Tenable Is the Company to Beat for AI-Powered Exposure Management” (accessible to Gartner clients only), Gartner had this to say about Tenable’s standing in the exposure assessment platform (EAP) space:

“Tenable achieved its front-runner status in EAP by not only leveraging its long-standing dominance in vulnerability assessment but also combining its strong asset and attack surface discovery capabilities, support for third-party telemetry ingestion and AI. Tenable ingests asset and exposure data across the attack surface for cross-domain context beyond vulnerabilities and applies AI to enhance prioritization, analyze attack paths and enable greater automation.”

Gartner further wrote:

“Tenable One is a well-integrated platform that spans traditional IT, identity, cloud, cyber-physical systems (CPS) and container environments. Tenable’s expanded product suite, strengthened by a series of strategic acquisitions, distinguishes itself through extensibility across both traditional and nontraditional domains. This broad coverage delivers unmatched reach for onboarding and securing unmanaged assets, ensuring comprehensive visibility across the entire digital landscape.”

How Tenable One uses AI to supercharge exposure management

At Tenable, we believe that an AI-driven exposure management platform lets you preemptively and comprehensively discover, prioritize, and remediate your greatest cyber risks, protecting you against increasingly aggressive and sophisticated cyber attacks.

That’s why AI capabilities are part of the DNA of Tenable One, and we feel this is making it the one clear leader in exposure management and helping security teams to move from reactive firefighting to proactive risk management. Here’s a snapshot of just a few key ways in which Tenable One leverages AI to leave competitors in the rearview mirror:

• Illuminates attack paths: We use AI to contextualize threats and identify likely attack routes based on asset criticality, severity, business impact, and exploitation likelihood.
• Automates fixes: The platform also utilizes AI to drive workflow automation, identifying the correct asset owners, populating tailored remediation guidance, and even auto-creating tickets in third-party systems. It automates aspects of patch management entirely, handling deployment and post-patch verification.
• Sees the whole picture: By ingesting third-party telemetry and combining it with its own scanned data, Tenable One creates cross-domain context that fuels its AI capabilities, resulting in sharper prioritization and more comprehensive risk assessments.

In short, thanks to its extensive and sophisticated use of AI for cybersecurity, Tenable One provides a cohesive, integrated view of your entire hybrid environment and protects your sprawling and complex attack surface.

How Tenable One secures your AI assets

Tenable One uses AI for security to fuel your entire exposure management program, and that includes protecting the AI tools your organization uses to optimize your operations, including human resources, finance, sales, product development and marketing.

As organizations rush to leverage generative AI and autonomous agents, they often introduce significant vulnerabilities – ranging from shadow AI usage to misconfigured models – that bypass standard security controls. This lack of visibility creates dangerous blind spots, making the ability to accurately assess and prioritize AI-related exposures a top priority. 

At Tenable, we call this the AI exposure management gap. This gap, which traditional security tools are ill-equipped to handle, stems from the pervasive and often invisible nature of AI adoption, leading to three critical risks:

• Unknown footprint: Security teams often lack visibility into shadow AI, forgotten deployments and other AI assets that expand the attack surface beyond managed perimeters.
• Hidden attack paths: AI workloads create complex webs of interconnected apps, APIs, and identities. Misconfigurations and overprivileged access within these networks create high-impact attack vectors that standard tools cannot detect.
• Data exposure: Continuous interactions—such as prompts and uploads—can inadvertently leak sensitive intellectual property or customer data.

Ultimately, without proper guardrails and visibility, everyday AI usage transforms into a significant, unmanaged security liability.

Tenable believes that you must stop treating AI risk like a separate cybersecurity problem. That’s why we recently launched Tenable One AI Exposure, which gives you a unified view to see, secure, and manage AI-related exposures alongside IT, cloud, identity, and OT.

Tenable One AI Exposure is built on three pillars:

• Discovery of AI assets
• Protection of AI workloads and agents
• AI usage governance

With Tenable One AI Exposure, you get a complete, risk-aware view of where AI exists, how it is connected, and where exposure begins. By providing unified visibility, contextualized signals, clear exposure communication, and fast, actionable outcomes, Tenable One lets you embrace AI confidently. 

New to Tenable? Request a Tenable One AI Exposure demo today. Existing customer? Reach out to your account team to expand your Tenable One coverage to include AI Exposure.

Source: Gartner, AI Vendor Race: Tenable Is the Company to Beat for AI-Powered Exposure Management(Accessible to Gartner Subscribers), by Elizabeth Kim, et al, December 8, 2025 

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