Tenable today launched Lumin, a tool that allows companies to measure and quantify cyber risk.
Lumin is a new application within Tenable.io, the company’s cyber exposure platform. It works with Tenable’s other products, like its container and web application security offerings. The application analyzes vulnerability data, business-critical assets, and threat context. It then quantifies an organization’s cyber risk and benchmarks it against their peers.
“Cyber exposure enables businesses to undergo digital transformation in a secure way by helping them answer three questions: How am I exposed? What can I do to reduce my exposure as quickly as possible? And how do I compare to my peers?” explained Tenable CTO Renaud Deraison. “This is also a very difficult thing to do because security has a lot of dark magic, and the ability to compare other companies in my vertical is something we needed to add.”
How Lumin Works
Tenable does this by first deploying sensors throughout the enterprise — this includes software that monitors the network and agents deployed on laptops and other mobile devices. The sensors look for things like missing critical updates and patches or…
