Tenable Exposure Management Use Cases

The Tenable Exposure Management interface can be used in the following ways to support these common use cases:

User Type Use Case
CISO/Executives

Utilize the Exposure View page to:

  • Quickly quantify your overall enterprise risk exposure and identify which areas need further investigation.

  • Create custom exposure cards to view data based on specific business contexts.

  • Measure and prioritize risk exposure progress or regression.

  • Easily communicate important risk information to teams and include in presentations.

  • Understand how effective your program is via the Remediation Maturity metric.

Security Practitioner

Utilize the Attack Path page to:

  • Evaluate the impact of insecure assets and communicate these insecurities to appropriate parties.

  • Proactively identify hidden security issues within my assets and their relationships.

Both CISO/Executives and Security Practitioners

Utilize the Exposure Signals page to:

  • Gain visibility into your most critical risk scenarios by viewing risk combinations of that could make any weakness potentially dangerous to your business

  • Generate exposure signals that use queries to search for asset violations and view business-specific risks and weaknesses.

Utilize the Inventory page to:

  • View and manage all assets, regardless of their source.

  • View and manage weaknesses across all of your vulnerability findings.

  • Consolidate data in one location, reducing license and maintenance costs

Utilize the Tagging page to:

  • Utilize existing tags or create new tags that can be used to create custom exposure cards.