Microsoft and Tenable on Thursday announced a partnership to integrate their technologies as part of an effort to meet the zero-trust goals of the Biden administration’s executive order on cybersecurity.
The two companies plan to integrate Tenable.io with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel solutions to support vulnerability assessments for hybrid cloud workloads that use FedRAMP.
“The White House’s Cybersecurity Executive Order focuses heavily on zero-trust initiatives,” said Glen Pendley, chief technology officer at Tenable. “Zero trust requires a foundation of strong cyber hygiene, with accurate visibility into all of the organization’s assets — IT, cloud, operational technology, internet of things — and continuous monitoring of user profiles and privileges.”
Pendley added that both Microsoft and Tenable are alliance partners in the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC)…
