Tenable Extends Exposure Management to AI Attack Surface

Rhea-AI Summary

Tenable (NASDAQ: TENB) announced general availability of Tenable One AI Exposure, extending the Tenable One exposure management platform to continuously discover, protect and govern AI across SaaS, cloud, APIs, agents and on-premises environments.

The release highlights unified AI visibility, contextualized exposure insight that correlates AI usage with infrastructure, identity and data, and actionable remediation and governance to enforce acceptable-use policies and produce audit-ready evidence. Gartner recognized Tenable as a front-runner for AI-powered exposure assessment and ranked it highest for Ability to Execute in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Exposure Assessment Platforms.

Positive

• Continuous AI discovery across SaaS, cloud, APIs, agents and on-premises
• Contextualized exposure insight correlates AI usage with infrastructure, identity and data
• Gartner recognitions: named front-runner for AI-powered exposure assessment and highest for Ability to Execute in 2025 Magic Quadrant

Negative

• None.

Key Figures

Gartner overall rating: 4.8/5 Willingness to recommend: 88% Customer reviews: 71 reviews +5 more

8 metrics

Gartner overall rating 4.8/5 Gartner Peer Insights rating as of October 2025

Willingness to recommend 88% Gartner Peer Insights CNAPPs, October 2025

Customer reviews 71 reviews Gartner Peer Insights CNAPPs, October 2025

Rating report date December 8, 2025 Gartner AI-Powered Exposure Assessment report

Magic Quadrant date November 2025 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Exposure Assessment Platforms

Price change 2.94% 24-hour move before this AI exposure news

52-week range $21.5543–$45.4445 TENB 52-week low and high pre-announcement

Market cap $2,679,278,772 Equity value prior to this AI announcement

Market Reality Check

Price: $22.75 Vol: Volume 1,890,868 is 1.25x...

normal vol

$22.75 Last Close

Volume Volume 1,890,868 is 1.25x the 20-day average of 1,511,676, indicating elevated interest pre-announcement. normal

Technical Shares at $23.11 trade below the 200-day MA of $29.63 and about 49.15% under the 52-week high.

Peers on Argus

TENB gained 2.94% while several peers like AVPT (+1.67%) and QLYS (+2.12%) were ...

1 Up

TENB gained 2.94% while several peers like AVPT (+1.67%) and QLYS (+2.12%) were also up, but sector momentum scanners flagged only one peer (DOCN +13.49%) and did not indicate a coordinated sector move.

Previous AI Reports

5 past events · Latest: Aug 06 (Positive)

Same Type Pattern 5 events

Date	Event	Sentiment	Move	Catalyst
Aug 06	AI product expansion	Positive	+1.0%	Launch of Tenable AI Exposure to manage enterprise generative AI risks.
Jul 24	AI feature upgrade	Positive	-1.1%	AI-powered enhancements to VPR narrowing focus to 1.6% of vulnerabilities.
Jun 16	AI awards & M&A	Positive	+1.5%	AI security awards and Apex Security acquisition to bolster AI capabilities.
May 15	AI platform upgrades	Positive	+0.4%	Tenable One Connectors and AI-powered dashboards to unify risk data.
Apr 17	AI award win	Positive	-1.7%	AI-powered vulnerability management award and showcase of key AI tools.

Pattern Detected

AI-related announcements have typically led to modest moves, with a mix of aligned and divergent reactions around a low single-digit average change.

Recent Company History

Recent history shows Tenable steadily building its AI-focused exposure management capabilities. Since April 2025, the company has highlighted AI-driven awards, platform enhancements, and new AI risk products. These AI-tagged events produced several modest positive moves (e.g., +1.54%, +1.04%) and a few negative reactions. Today’s AI attack-surface expansion continues this strategy of integrating AI deeper into the Tenable One platform.

Historical Comparison

AI

+1.1 %

Average Historical Move

Historical Analysis

AI-tagged news over the past year moved TENB by an average of ±1.14%. Today’s +2.94% gain sits modestly above that range but not as an extreme outlier.

Typical Pattern

AI news has evolved from awards and feature upgrades toward broader platform-level AI exposure management, mirroring a deepening focus on securing enterprise AI use.

Market Pulse Summary

This announcement reinforces Tenable’s focus on managing AI-related cyber risk by extending unified ...

Analysis

This announcement reinforces Tenable’s focus on managing AI-related cyber risk by extending unified exposure management across SaaS, cloud, APIs and agents. Gartner recognition in 2025, including a 4.8/5 rating and 88% willingness to recommend, supports the strategic emphasis on AI security. Investors may watch how broadly Tenable One AI Exposure is adopted, how it deepens enterprise spend on the platform, and whether subsequent earnings disclosures highlight measurable AI-driven demand.

Key Terms

saas, apis, exposure management platform, attack surface

4 terms

saas technical

"including SaaS platforms, cloud services, APIs and agents."

SaaS, or Software as a Service, is a way of delivering computer programs over the internet, allowing users to access and use them through a web browser without needing to install or maintain the software themselves. For investors, it highlights a business model where companies generate recurring revenue by providing ongoing access to their software, often leading to predictable income and growth potential.

apis technical

"including SaaS platforms, cloud services, APIs and agents."

APIs are sets of rules that let different software systems talk to each other, like standardized doorways that let apps, data services and websites exchange information without needing to be rebuilt each time. For investors, APIs matter because they speed product development, enable digital partnerships and data feeds, create new revenue or cost savings, and introduce operational or security dependencies that can affect growth and risk.

exposure management platform technical

"Tenable One unifies AI discovery, protection and governance within a single exposure management platform"

A system that gathers and organizes a company's financial risks and positions—like market moves, credit exposures, or operational vulnerabilities—into a single dashboard so managers can see where money is at risk. Think of it as a household budget app combined with an alarm system: it shows which areas could cause big losses and recommends actions to reduce or hedge those risks. Investors use it to judge how well a company detects, limits and reports potential losses, which affects expected volatility, capital needs and regulatory compliance.

attack surface technical

"already use to manage cyber risk across their attack surface."

The attack surface is the collection of points where a company's digital systems, devices, or networks can be accessed, misused, or breached — think of it as the number of doors and windows a thief could try. A larger or more complex attack surface raises the chance of a costly security breach, which can lead to direct losses, regulatory fines, and damage to customer trust and the company's stock value, so investors watch it as a measure of operational and cybersecurity risk.

AI-generated analysis. Not financial advice.

Tenable One unifies AI discovery, protection and governance within a single exposure management platform

COLUMBIA, Md., Jan. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tenable® Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TENB), the exposure management company, today announced general availability of Tenable One AI Exposure. With this release, the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform unifies AI protection, discovery and usage governance across the enterprise – including SaaS platforms, cloud services, APIs and agents.

AI is deeply embedded and interconnected throughout organizations, creating the “AI Exposure Gap,” a largely invisible form of exposure that emerges across applications, infrastructure, identities, agents and data, and that most security teams are not equipped to manage. Many organizations lack visibility into where AI is used, which data or processes it touches, who owns or has access, or how users interact with it.

Tenable provides a comprehensive exposure management platform for AI-related risk, bringing AI exposure into the same unified approach organizations already use to manage cyber risk across their attack surface. With AI security capabilities, Tenable One now continuously discovers AI across the entire organization, internal and external, on-premises and cloud, delivering a complete, risk-aware view of where AI operates, how it is connected and where exposure is created. Enhanced capabilities include:

• Unified AI visibility: Continuously discover sanctioned and shadow AI across internal, cloud and external environments, including applications, workloads, APIs and agents, to understand where AI exists, how it is used, and where exposure begins.
• Contextualized exposure insight: Correlate AI usage, infrastructure, identity and data to reveal how exposure is created across interconnected systems, eliminate noise, see potential AI attack paths and prioritize AI risk based on real business impact.
• Actionable exposure reduction and governance: Reduce AI risk by remediating misconfigurations, closing exposed services, enforcing AI acceptable-use policies, limiting data exposure and generating audit-ready evidence to support governance and compliance.
  
  

“Tenable One brings AI exposure out of silos and into a unified operational model for cyber risk where it can be seen, understood and reduced,” said Eric Doerr, Chief Product Officer, Tenable. “By connecting the dots between AI risk and the larger business risk, Tenable delivers the visibility and context security leaders need for informed proactive defense.”

Gartner recently named Tenable the company to beat for AI-Powered Exposure Assessment in the Gartner report for AI Vendor Race.¹ According to the Gartner report, “Tenable achieved its front-runner status in EAP by not only leveraging its long-standing dominance in vulnerability assessment but also combining its strong asset and attack surface discovery capabilities, support for third-party telemetry ingestion and AI.”

Tenable was also named a Leader in the first-ever 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Exposure Assessment Platforms.² Tenable was positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision.

More information on Tenable One AI Exposure is available at: https://www.tenable.com/products/ai-exposure

¹ Gartner Research, “AI Vendor Race: Tenable Is the Company to Beat for AI-Powered Exposure Assessment,” December 8, 2025 by Elizabeth Kim, Isy Bangurah, Mitchell Schneider

² Gartner Research, Gartner Research, “2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Exposure Assessment Platforms,” By Mitchell Schneider, Dhivya Poole, Jonathan Nunez, November 2025.

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About Tenable
Tenable® is the exposure management company, exposing and closing the cybersecurity gaps that erode business value, reputation and trust. The company’s AI-powered exposure management platform radically unifies security visibility, insight and action across the attack surface, equipping modern organizations to protect against attacks from IT infrastructure to cloud environments to critical infrastructure and everywhere in between. By protecting enterprises from security exposure, Tenable reduces business risk for approximately 44,000 customers around the globe. Learn more at tenable.com.

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FAQ

What is Tenable One AI Exposure and how does it affect TENB shareholders?

Tenable One AI Exposure is a platform feature that continuously discovers and governs AI usage across environments, aiming to reduce AI-related exposure that could affect enterprise security posture.

When did Tenable (TENB) announce general availability of Tenable One AI Exposure?

Tenable announced general availability on January 27, 2026.

Which environments does Tenable One AI Exposure cover for discovery and protection?

The solution covers SaaS platforms, cloud services, APIs, agents and on-premises environments for both sanctioned and shadow AI.

What specific capabilities does Tenable One AI Exposure provide?

It provides unified AI visibility, contextualized exposure insights linking AI to assets and data, and actionable remediation plus governance and audit-ready evidence.

How has industry analysis recognized Tenable (TENB) for its AI exposure capabilities?

Gartner named Tenable a front-runner for AI-powered exposure assessment and placed it highest for Ability to Execute in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Exposure Assessment Platforms.