Tenable uses AI to further refine threat risk rating

Tenable is using AI to further refine the number of vulnerabilities rated as high or critical using its Tenable Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR). While the static Common Vulnerability Scoring System flags 60% of vulnerabilities as high or critical, the Tenable VPR refined this to 3% at its launch in 2019.

Now using AI-driven enhancements, this percentage has been further reduced to just 1.6% of vulnerabilities that represent actual business risk.

Tenable chief product officer Eric Doerr said the enhancements can deliver hyper-focused risk prioritisation to customers.

“We’re taking our game-changing Tenable VPR to the next level with these AI-powered enhancements,” he said. “Tenable VPR brings an unmatched precision and depth of threat intelligence, context and explainability to cyber operations. With these critical insights at their fingertips, organisations can clearly visualise why an exposure matters, where they are vulnerable and how to close their priority risks.”

The enhancements to the platform also include AI-generated risk summaries and remediation insights aimed at helping users quickly understand real-world risks and determine how to act to remediate them. In addition, enhanced filtering, querying and metadata can potentially help organisations understand and prioritise vulnerabilities based on real-world threats to their specific industry and region.

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