In an era of increasing cyber threats and rapidly-evolving technology, cybersecurity has never been more critical for the federal government. Considering the vast amounts of sensitive data they host (from PII to mission-critical intel), protecting agency systems from cyber attacks is paramount to national security and operational integrity. However, many government systems remain outdated, creating vulnerabilities that adversaries can exploit.
Proactively Securing the Mission in a Complex, High-Stakes Environment
Recent cyber incidents have shown that reactive defenses are no longer enough. Federal agencies need proactive, continuous security that identifies and mitigates risk across their entire infrastructure before they can impact mission critical operations. And that’s where exposure management comes in.
Exposure Management with Tenable
Tenable One is a FedRAMP authorized exposure management platform that gives federal agencies the insight they need to improve security outcomes, simplify operations, reduce costs, and accelerate strategic initiatives (i.e. Zero Trust and IT modernization). With Tenable One, agencies get the following benefits:
- Unified visibility across attack surfaces
- Risk-based prioritization
- Accelerated Zero Trust maturity
- Tool consolidation and cost efficiency
- Operational efficiency and automation
- Accountability and measurable progress
- AI-driven innovation
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM)
With RBVM solutions, federal agencies can prioritize cybersecurity efforts based on the most critical threats. By leveraging automation, threat intelligence, and real-time analytics, RBVM helps agencies allocate resources efficiently, address high-risk vulnerabilities first, and minimize damage from cyber threats. This smarter, data-driven approach ensures that agencies can streamline security operations, reduce manual efforts, and prevent costly breaches.
Optimizing Operations with Tenable RBVM Solutions
Maximize Efficiency
- Proactively Stop Threats: Continuous monitoring validates controls in real-time; improving security visibility and equipping agencies with critical intelligence to stop threats before they become breaches.
- AI-Driven Prioritization: Enables agencies to focus on fixing the vulnerabilities most likely to be exploited first. This reduces unnecessary spend on low-risk vulnerabilities, allowing agencies to allocate cybersecurity personnel and budgets more effectively.
- Automation: Vulnerability detection, prioritization, and remediation are automated with ML and AI – reducing the need for manual security assessments, cutting labor costs and improving response times.
- Ensure Compliance: Dashboards and compliance reports integrate real-time analytics and intelligence, allowing for continuous compliance with federal cybersecurity regulations (NIST, FIPS, FISMA).
- Zero Day Detection and Response: New detections for high profile issues and critical Zero-Day plugins for high-risk vulnerabilities, ensure you can proactively expose and close security risks immediately.
Reduce Cost
- Mitigates Risk of Costly Breaches: With clear cost-benefit metrics, agencies can focus on high-value assets first, while avoiding the financial and operational consequences of data breaches, system outages and compliance violations.
- Avoid Costs: With tight budgets and limited dedicated cybersecurity resources, Tenable enables the rapid closure of risk, protecting agencies from the cost of remediation and restitution.
- Vendor Consolidation: Centralize your security stack, eliminating costly, redundant integrations, and reducing complexity.
- Resource Optimization: In-depth dashboards and reports ensure resources are invested in the systems that require attention while avoiding expensive and unnecessary upgrades.
- Efficiency At-Scale: As the current technology used by the Federal government, Tenable solutions enable agencies to maximize their existing investment, reducing unnecessary procurement, training and onboarding costs associated with unfamiliar systems.
- Scarcity of Talent: Leveraging AI to create a target list of priority vulnerabilities enables junior security professionals to have an impact beyond their experience level, thereby reducing costs.
Drive Modernization
- Expose AI Risk: Advanced detection technologies monitor and document unauthorized AI solutions across your environment, enabling agencies to quickly expose and close AI risk without disrupting business operations.
- Reactive to Proactive: Shift cybersecurity from a costly reactive, manual process to an efficient, data-driven, proactive strategy.
- Drive Zero Trust Adoption: Tenable solutions help agencies maintain the strict security controls required for Zero Trust environments. Understanding the link between identities and systems helps agencies reduce reliance on outdated perimeter defenses, and enables dynamic, adaptive threat mitigation.
- Protect the Entire Attack Surface: Tenable’s on-premise and FedRAMP Moderate-authorized cloud solutions accelerate modernization efforts by supporting cloud migration for federal agencies, securing hybrid environments and protecting critical infrastructure from cyber attacks.
- Accelerate Risk Analysis: Search, contextualize, and respond to vulnerabilities based on rich sources of data and intelligence.