Tenable Blog

Security teams around the world are struggling to keep up with the rapidly changing threat environment, while facing the pressure of being responsible for any malicious activity that happens on their watch. With so many moving pieces, it’s impossible to identify what threats are impacting your environment without making sure your foundations are covered.

The most basic foundation is visibility.

What should I be watching?

What do you need to watch? It depends on your environment. Effectively, you need to watch:

Tenable Nessus v6.6 has received certification from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) for the Amazon AWS Foundations benchmark; the first and only CIS member to receive that certification.

As announced in December 2015, the PCI Security Standards Council released version 3.2 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) on April 28, 2016. This version update was necessary because of the PCI Council’s decision last December to “dial back” on the sunset dates for the replacement of all versions of SSL and “early versions” of TLS for companies subject to PCI compliance.

Top Three Reasons to Manage Shadow IT

We’ve shared a few blog articles in recent months about shadow IT - what it is and how to manage it. We’ve also had many interesting conversations with customers and prospects about their own reasons for wanting to get better visibility into shadow IT on their networks. In this article, we’ll share the top three reasons that we hear, in no particular order.

Lack of communication between IT departments and those responsible for executing agency mission can lead to the creation of shadow IT—unauthorized and often unmanaged applications that can introduce vulnerabilities. This is something that SecurityCenter Continuous View™ (CV) can help you identify, understand and manage.