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January 24, 2025

Cybersecurity Snapshot: WEF Offers AI Security Best Practices, as DORA Regulation Places Strict Cyber Rules on Banks

Check out tips for adopting AI securely from the World Economic Forum. Plus, the EU’s DORA cyber rules for banks go into effect. Meanwhile, a report warns about overprivileged cloud accounts. And get the latest on ransomware trends; CIS Benchmarks; and data privacy.

April 8, 2019

Here Are the Answers to 16 Predictive Prioritization Questions

Earlier this year, Tenable introduced Predictive Prioritization, a groundbreaking, data science-based process that re-prioritizes each vulnerability based on the likelihood it will be leveraged in an attack. Here, we answer your 16 most pressing questions about what this capability me...


April 5, 2019

Cybersecurity Pros Face Significant Challenges with OT Security: Ponemon Report

62% of organizations in industries relying on operational technology experienced two or more business-impacting cyberattacks in the past 24 months, according to a report from Ponemon Institute and Tenable. If you follow cybersecurity news as avidly as we do, you already know that industrial ...


March 11, 2019

Proof of Concept (PoC) vs. Proof of Value (PoV): What Do They Mean for Your Business?

This is the first of our two-part series on how to use Proof of Concept and Proof of Value processes to evaluate industrial cybersecurity solutions. Unlike Proof of Concept (PoC), which proves a concept will work, Proof of Value (PoV) takes a deeper dive into the value of that solution for your...


July 23, 2017

Cyber Exposure: The Next Frontier for Security

The stakes have never been higher when it comes to cybersecurity. Global cyber attacks such as the recent WannaCry ransomware attack is a sobering reminder that cybersecurity is the existential threat of this generation. A new report from Lloyd’s of London estimates a serious cyber attack could cost...


February 7, 2017

Outstanding Patch Tracking Dashboard

Editor's note: Our dashboards have been updated in the time since this blog was originally published. Please see this page for the latest guidance on Outstanding Remediation Tracking. The IT Operations teams in most organizations run in monthly cycles from “Patch Tuesday” to “Patch Tuesday.” The ...


July 20, 2016

Threat Hunting with YARA and Nessus

In Nessus 6.7, file system scanning functionality was introduced that could look for specific file hashes of files on disk. This was in addition to the running process detection which has been supported for quite some time. Now, as part of the Nessus 6.8 release, we’ve introduced YARA to our Windows...


July 10, 2014

Installing and Using Nessus on Kali Linux

Note: These 2014 instructions are for installing Nessus version 5 on Kali Linux. Please see the newer blog, Getting Started with Nessus on Kali Linux, for information on installing Nessus version 6 and higher on Kali Linux 2016. Note:  Nessus Cloud is now a part of Tenable.io Vulnerability...


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