Credentials

Credentials are reusable objects that facilitate scan target login.

Administrators can add credentials available to all organizations. Organizational users can add credentials available to other users in the same organization. For information about user access in Tenable.sc, see User Access.

Users can share credentials with other users, allowing them to scan remote hosts without knowing the credentials of the host. For information about Tenable.sc credential data encryption, see Encryption Strength.

Tenable.sc supports the following credential types:

If a scan contains multiple instances of one type of credential, Tenable.sc tries the credentials on each scan target in the order you added the credentials to Tenable.sc.

Note: Tenable.sc uses the first credential that allows successful login to perform credentialed checks on the target. After a credential allows a successful login, Tenable.sc does not try any of the other credentials in the list, even if a different credential has greater privileges.

To add credentials, see Add Credentials.