Tenable unveils benchmarking solution
Software company Tenable announced a new feature, called Tenable.io Lumin, which the company said will enable organizations to quantify and communicate their cyber risk.
In cyber security, the concept of an “attack surface” refers to the total number of points or vectors an attacker might seize to take advantage of an environment. Companies undergoing digital transformation expand their attack surface by using new cloud and web connected technologies, making them more susceptible to vulnerabilities in return. Tenable reports over 60% of vulnerabilities detected by its customers in 2017 classified as high or critical severity.
“With the digital transformation at its height, a company’s assets are no longer just laptops or servers,” explained Dave Cole, chief product officer at Tenable, in an email exchange with RCR Wireless News. “It’s now a complex mix of digital compute platforms and assets which represent the modern attack surface, where the assets themselves and their associated vulnerabilities are constantly expanding, contracting and evolving – like a living organism.This elastic attack surface has created a massive gap in…
