Tenable Announces Industry’s First Predictive Prioritization Innovation
November 07 2018 - 4:00AM
New risk-centric vulnerability remediation
enables organizations to focus on the seven percent of issues that
matter
Edge EMEA -- Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber
Exposure company, today announced Predictive Prioritization, a
first-of-its-kind innovation for both Tenable.io® and Tenable.sc™
(formerly SecurityCenter) which will provide organizations with the
unprecedented capability to focus on the seven percent of
vulnerabilities which pose the greatest actual risk to the
business.
Effectively prioritizing vulnerabilities is a critical and
strategic business imperative for reducing cyber risk. According to
Gartner, “Through 2021, the single most impactful enterprise
activity to improve security will be mitigating vulnerabilities.*”
The newly published Vulnerability Intelligence Report from Tenable
Research found that enterprises must triage and manage more than
100 critical vulnerabilities on average daily, as rated by the
common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS). Basic CVSS ratings
alone are failing the industry and leave organizations unable to
effectively and confidently focus on which vulnerabilities require
immediate action. Moreover, Tenable Research estimates that the
industry is on track to disclose up to 19,000 new vulnerabilities
in 2018, an increase of 27 percent over 2017. Yet in 2017, public
exploits were available for seven percent of all vulnerabilities,
meaning that 93 percent of all vulnerabilities posed only
theoretical risk. For most vulnerabilities, a working exploit is
never developed and of those, an even smaller subset is actively
weaponized by threat actors, making it difficult to understand
which vulnerabilities to remediate first, if at all.
To address this deluge of vulnerabilities and predict which ones
expose organizations to the most cyber risk, Tenable is announcing
new predictive prioritization capabilities. Predictive
Prioritization combines Tenable-collected vulnerability data with
third-party vulnerability and threat data and analyzes them
together with the advanced data science algorithm developed by
Tenable Research. The data science algorithm analyzes over 100,000
vulnerabilities using machine learning to anticipate the
probability of a vulnerability being leveraged by threat actors and
differentiate between real and theoretical risks.
Third party data sources include:
- Basic Vulnerability Information, such as CVSS
and the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), that provide
baseline information on ease of exploit and attack vectors
associated with the vulnerability.
- Third-Party Threat Intelligence feeds from a
variety of public threat intelligence feeds as well as Recorded
Future, that deliver insight into which vulnerabilities are
actively being exploited by both targeted and opportunistic threat
actors.
“With thousands of vulnerabilities identified in enterprise
environments each day, security teams don’t have time and the
business doesn’t have the luxury to guess which ones to focus on
first,” said Dave Cole, chief product officer, Tenable.
“Organizations need solutions to help them better understand the
actual, not theoretical, impact of vulnerabilities, and focus
remediation efforts based on business risk. We’re very excited to
introduce Predictive Prioritization as a first-of-its-kind
innovation to our Cyber Exposure platform, helping organizations
better manage, measure and reduce their cyber risk in the digital
era.”
Predictive Prioritization will be included as part of
Tenable.io, for vulnerability management in the Cloud, and
Tenable.sc (formerly SecurityCenter), for vulnerability management
On-Prem. These two flexible deployment options are core components
of the Tenable Cyber Exposure platform, which uniquely provides the
breadth of visibility into cyber risk across IT, cloud, IoT and OT
environments and the depth of analytics to measure and communicate
cyber risk in business terms to make better strategic decisions.
Predictive Prioritization for Tenable.io and Tenable.sc will be
generally available in 2019.
For more information on Predictive Prioritization, go to
https://www.tenable.com/cyber-exposure/platform.
About TenableTenable®, Inc. is the Cyber
Exposure company. Over 24,000 organizations around the globe rely
on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. As the creator of
Nessus®, Tenable extended its expertise in vulnerabilities to
deliver the world’s first platform to see and secure any digital
asset on any computing platform. Tenable customers include more
than 50 percent of the Fortune 500, more than 25 percent of the
Global 2000 and large government agencies. Learn more at
tenable.com.
Contact Information:Cayla Baker Tenable
tenablepr@tenable.com 443-545-2102, x 1544
*Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2018 Presentation,
Fix What Matters: Provide DevOps Teams With Risk-Prioritized
Vulnerability Guidance, Dale Gardner, June 4-7, 2018
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