Tenable and Synack

Integrating Vulnerability Management & Security Testing for Better Remediation and Patch Verification

The Challenge

Scanning identifies potential vulnerabilities but may not confirm what is exploitable.
Scanning is also voluminous, making it challenging to zero in on the vulnerabilities
that matter most. Security testing, meanwhile, confirms exploitability and provides
detailed analysis, paths to remediation and patch verification. Security testing
identifies exploitable, real-world application interactions that scanning may miss.

Each is vital, but vulnerability scanning and security testing results are too often
siloed. As a result, it takes too long to isolate and fix exploitable vulnerabilities.

The Solution

Synack, the leader in Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS), has partnered
with cutting-edge Tenable Vulnerability Management (VM) and Web Application
Scanning (WAS) to offer customers the best of both worlds—broad insights from
automated scanning integrated with the deep and detailed expertise of human-led
security research.

Tenable Vulnerability Management and Tenable Web Application Scanning, part of
Tenable One, enables customers to scan host and web resources to see if what
is running on them is exposed to cyber weaknesses, such as those identified by
the Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) catalogue and other threat intelligence.
Resources may be vulnerable due to various factors, including out-of-date security
updates, which Tenable reports. This automated vulnerability scanning effectively
provides complete visibility into potential cyber risk across customer
IT environments.

Benefits of the Integration

• Improves vulnerability triage
to isolate exploitable vulns
that matter most

• Reduces noise by distinguishing
vulns that aren’t accessible by
bad actors

• Integrates end-to-end workflows
for faster remediation and patch
verification

• Combines the strengths of
automated scanning and
human-led analysis

• Mimics real-world behavior
of bad actors to find threats
that scanning may miss

• Provides access to an expert,
vetted team of security testers
on demand

• Overcomes the static nature of
traditional penetration testing

• Relieves IT/security teams from
time-consuming exploit & patch
verification

The Solution (cont.)

Powered by the Synack PTaaS platform, the Synack Red Team (SRT) plus Synack
Autonomous Red Agent (Sara) acts as an extension to customer IT and security
teams, assisting in quick triage, isolation and remediation of the most urgent security
gaps. Synack leverages context from scanning results and applies AI-assisted testing
combined with human-led security researcher knowledge and experience. Synack
confirms which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable in the customer’s environment,
provides detailed exploit analysis, recommendations for remediation and verification of
successful patching. Synack PTaaS can run continuously to quickly address security gaps
that yearly compliance-driven penetration testing misses.

About Tenable

Tenable exists to expose and close priority security gaps that put businesses at risk.
Our industry-leading 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 the cloud to OT and everywhere in between. By
protecting digital and critical infrastructure from exposures, Tenable reduces business
risk for more than 44,000 customers around the globe.

About Synack

Synack is the leader in human-led and AI-powered Penetration Testing as a Service
(PTaaS), transforming offensive security to help organizations proactively reduce risk,
stay compliant and defend against evolving cyber threats. We are committed to making
the world more secure by harnessing agentic AI innovations and a talented, vetted
community of security researchers to deliver continuous penetration testing and
autonomous vulnerability management. Founded by former NSA operatives, Synack has
enabled nearly 10 million hours of expert testing to protect critical assets, from global
financial systems to U.S. Defense Department networks.

Contact

The new integration is available at no additional charge to Synack PTaaS platform
customers who have valid Tenable One Vulnerability Management and/or Web
Application Scanning subscriptions. Please read the integration guide for further
information on enabling the integration in your Synack platform. You may also contact
help@synack.com with any questions.