Tenable Hexa AI

Automate complex security workflows and transform exposure intelligence into continuous action to autonomously reduce cyber risk. Tenable Hexa AI is the agentic AI engine of the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, orchestrating an autonomous fleet of AI agents to deliver an always-on defense and drive operational ROI.

Effortlessly scale proactive exposure management

Turn exposure data into proactive defense

Outpace modern threats. Use Tenable Hexa AI, your autonomous agentic engine, to coordinate complex workflows at machine speed, eliminate manual drudgery, and scale operations before attackers can exploit security gaps.

Schedule operations

Set autonomous routines

Move beyond point-in-time assessments with a persistent, always-on workforce. Set your autonomous agent fleet to run on a scheduled cadence, automatically handling daily vulnerability triaging, health checks, and routine tasks without human delay.

Automate remediation

Close the exposure gap

Accelerate MTTR by transitioning to fully automated remediation schedules. Tenable Hexa AI actively reasons through cross-domain vulnerabilities, creates tickets, connects with patch tools, and triggers immediate scans when a ticket closes.

Unify defenses

Seamlessly coordinate AI agents

Synchronize response efforts across all asset types spanning your attack surface. Tenable Hexa AI acts as a master orchestrator, retaining unique context across every session to seamlessly coordinate specialized agents as one connected workforce.

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Tenable Hexa AI FAQs

What is Tenable Hexa AI, and how does it work?

Tenable Hexa AI is the agentic orchestration engine inside Tenable One that turns exposure intelligence into coordinated action. Powered by Tenable’s Exposure Data Fabric, Tenable Hexa AI acts as a master orchestrator. It seamlessly coordinates a unified fleet of specialized AI agents to execute complex security workflows, automate exposure remediation, and proactively manage cyber risk across your entire attack surface at machine speed.

How does Tenable Hexa AI differ from a standard chatbot?

Traditional security chatbots often function as glorified natural-language search tools, or they force you to manually juggle disjointed, task-specific bots. Tenable Hexa AI is different. It provides a single, unified interface that acts as a master orchestrator. Instead of just answering questions, Tenable Hexa AI actively reasons through cross-domain risks and automatically pulls in the exact combination of specialized agents needed to execute multi-step workflows, operating as one seamlessly connected workforce rather than fragmented silos.

How does Tenable Hexa AI ensure data safety and governance?

While Tenable Hexa AI is engineered to execute autonomous routines at machine scale, it operates strictly within your established guardrails. It is designed with human-in-the-loop principles at its core, giving your team total control over when to deploy complete automation and when to require human approval. Every action is meticulously logged, ensuring full auditability and governance, whether Tenable Hexa AI is operating autonomously on a schedule or under human supervision.

Why is the data foundation (the Exposure Data Fabric) critical for agentic AI?

AI agents are only as reliable as the data they act upon. Agents built on fragmented or low-fidelity data lack the necessary context to make accurate decisions, which can lead to dangerous hallucinations or incorrect actions. Tenable Hexa AI is built directly on the Tenable Exposure Data Fabric. By grounding every automated workflow in authoritative, high-fidelity ground truth across vulnerability, asset, and identity data, Tenable Hexa AI ensures precision execution without the guesswork.

Can my team execute custom security workflows with Tenable Hexa AI?

Yes. Using the Tenable Hexa AI Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, you can embrace a “bring your own AI” (BYOAI) approach. The Tenable Hexa AI MCP acts as a secure, universal adapter that exposes Tenable’s comprehensive library of tools. This allows your senior analysts to connect your preferred LLMs, design flexible, custom workflows tailored precisely to your unique architecture, and package expert-level automations that the rest of the team can seamlessly execute.

What is the difference between Tenable Hexa AI in Tenable One and the Tenable Hexa AI MCP?

Tenable Hexa AI within Tenable One provides an out-of-the-box, fully integrated agentic workforce. It allows your team to immediately schedule operations, automate daily vulnerability triaging, and execute security workflows directly within the Tenable console interface.

The Tenable Hexa AI MCP is an integration layer designed for maximum flexibility and BYOAI. It allows your team to connect your own preferred AI models to Tenable’s backend. The MCP is ideal for organizations looking to build highly customized, bespoke workflows that operate securely across Tenable and their broader, unique IT environments.

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