Remove Frictionless Assessment

Frictionless Assessment is now End of Provisioning (starting May 15, 2023), and new users will not be able to deploy Frictionless Assessment connectors. Frictionless Assessment will reach End-of-Support on December 31, 2023, and will no longer receive support or updates. However, existing Frictionless Assessment connectors will continue to function until the feature is End-of-Life on December 31, 2024. Tenable recommends that you transition to Tenable Cloud Security with Agentless Assessment for scanning your cloud resources. For more information, see the Tenable Vulnerability Management Release Notes.

Required User Role: Administrator

You can remove or offboard your existing AWS and Azure connectors from your Tenable container when you upgrade to Agentless Assessment.

Important: Frictionless Assessment connectors do not support Recast/Accept Rules.

Remove AWS Frictionless Assessment

There are two types of connectors:

  • AWS Frictionless Assessment connector with keyless authentication

  • AWS Frictionless Assessment connector

Remove Azure Frictionless Assessment

The Azure Frictionless Assessment is similar to AWS Frictionless Assessment connector.

To remove Azure Frictionless Assessment connector:

  1. In Tenable Vulnerability Management, delete the Azure Frictionless Assessment connector. For more information, see Delete a Connector.

  2. In the Azure portal, locate and delete the Tenable-FA-Connector-* resource group.

    This is the resource group deployed by the ARM template when you created the Azure Frictionless Assessment connector.

  3. (Optional) Remove the tags used for Frictionless Assessment.