View the Vulnerabilities Dashboard

The Tenable Cloud Security Vulnerabilities dashboard displays the vulnerabilities detected during a Vulnerability Scan using Agentless Assessment.

To view the Vulnerabilities dashboard:

  1. Access Tenable Cloud Security.

    The Dashboards page appears. The Misconfigurations tab is selected by default.

  2. Click the Vulnerabilities tab.

    The Vulnerabilities dashboard appears with several widgets showing key insights about the vulnerabilities detected by Agentlesss Assessment of your EC2 instances.

  3. Click a widget to view more details on the Vulnerabilities page.

The following table describes the widgets on the Vulnerabilities dashboard:

Widget Description
Key Insights

Provides a quick overview of actionable metrics, such as:

  • Total instances.

  • Number of publicly-exposed instances with vulnerabilities.

  • Number of critical instances.

  • Number of instances with critical vulnerabilities.

  • Number of operating systems with critical vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability distribution by severity Summarizes the number of vulnerabilities by Critical, High, Medium, and Low severity.
Vulnerabilities per project Summarizes the number of vulnerabilities in each project, organized by Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR). VPR is a dynamic metric that represents a vulnerability’s likelihood for exploitation and its severity. Tenable recommends that you remediate these vulnerabilities with a higher VPR first.
Top 5 vulnerabilities by impacted resources Lists the top five vulnerabilities with a high VPR affecting a high number of resources. Tenable recommends that you remediate these vulnerabilities first.
Top 5 OS / Hosts with critical & high vulnerabilities Lists the top five operating systems or hosts affected with the maximum number of critical and high severity vulnerabilities. Tenable recommends that you remediate these vulnerabilities first.