Tenable leverages AI to combat zero-day threats with transparency

RAJNISH GUPTA
MD & COUNTRY MANAGER, TENABLE INDIA

“Tenable addresses zero-day threats through a proactive, multi-layered strategy. Our research team actively discovers unknown vulnerabilities and creates detection signatures before they are publicly exploited. Tenable’s Attack Path Analysis maps how an attacker could leverage a zero-day on one system to reach critical assets. By helping organizations identify and sever potential attack chains—often by fixing misconfigurations or other known flaws—we neutralize the impact of zero-day exploits. This approach focuses on making the environment resilient to unknown threats, not just scanning for known ones.

We balance AI-driven cybersecurity with privacy, ethics, and regulatory compliance by using multiple data sources, including public, commercial, and anonymized internal information, to train our machine learning models. No identifiable customer data is used in any model, including Large Language Models, eliminating data leakage risks. Secure data handling and transparent policies ensure compliance with global regulations. Channel partners are critical for building a resilient, AI-enabled cybersecurity ecosystem, guiding customers through complex challenges like agentic AI, multi-cloud strategies, and budget constraints. By tailoring solutions to specific business needs, partners build trust and demonstrate the impact of cybersecurity on business performance. To ensure transparency and trust, Tenable prioritizes explainability, data privacy, and user engagement. Clear, natural-language explanations, anonymized training data, AI assistants, and interactive feedback mechanisms allow stakeholders to query, understand, and refine AI insights, fostering confidence and ensuring AI-powered security tools remain accountable, reliable, and ethical.”