Explore vs. Legacy Workbenches

On Tenable Vulnerability Management's Explore workbenches, you can view, analyze, and export all your findings and assets in a streamlined user interface that replaces the legacy workbenches Tenable has deprecated.

In Tenable Vulnerability Management's left navigation plane, two workbenches appear in the Explore section:

  • Findings workbench — Single location for vulnerabilities, cloud misconfigurations, host audits, and web application findings

  • Assets workbench — Combined view of vulnerabilities, cloud misconfigurations, host audits, and web application findings

The following table compares the Explore workbenches with the legacy workbenches and links to supporting documentation.

Feature Legacy Workbenches Explore Workbenches Learn More
Assets workbench Host assets were view-only

  • View host assets, cloud resources, web applications, and domain inventory in a single location

  • Customize the Assets workbench by adding columns

  • View asset visualizations

Asset Details page Asset type customization were not supported

  • View additional details by asset type

  • Vulnerabilities tab renamed to Findings

  • Open Ports tab now contains open port findings for high-traffic plugins
Findings workbench

  • Only vulnerabilities appeared

  • Findings were only grouped by plugin or asset

  • Findings visualizations were supported

  • View vulnerabilities, cloud misconfigurations, host audits, and web application findings in a single location

  • Group by plugin or asset—or view all resources without groups

  • Customize the Findings workbench by adding columns

  • Findings visualizations not supported

Findings and assets filters

  • No advanced filter mode

  • No nested filter support

  • Build complex queries with advanced filter mode

  • Nested filter support

Findings and assets exports Export to HTML, PDF, CSV, or JSON

  • Export to JSON or CSV

  • For PDF, in the menu on the right side of each row on the Findings workbench, click Generate Report.

  • From both the Findings and Assets workbenches, export more data with new fields

 Export Findings or Assets
Sidebar navigation

  • Assets and vulnerabilities appeared in two separate sections

  • Scans appeared in the Vulnerabilities section

  • Findings and assets appear in the Explore section on the left navigation plane

  • Scans appear in the Scans section on the left navigation plane

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