With instant deployment and no additional IT overhead required, Tenable's new VM-Native OT Discovery capability provides a fast, low-friction entry point for organizations to gain comprehensive IT/OT visibility and accelerate AI-driven exposure management.

According to Gartner®, "Cyber and cyber-physical attacks are set to double over the next three years. Cohesive exposure management capability and visibility, across cyber and cyber-physical dimensions, is fast becoming an operational imperative."1

Security teams are increasingly responsible for protecting cyber-physical systems, including those present in critical infrastructure. However, gaining visibility often requires time-consuming deployments of specialized hardware, new agents and bolted-on software. Tenable has eliminated this friction by integrating OT discovery directly into its core solutions for risk-based vulnerability management within the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform – no specialized hardware, additional agents or add-ons required.

From the factory floor to AI data centers, HVAC systems to office printers and badge readers, cyber-physical assets represent a rapidly growing and unruly attack surface, stretching far beyond traditional industrial and critical infrastructure. More than half of CISOs are now responsible for OT security,2 which has remained a dangerous blind spot where IT networks meet cyber-physical systems, and fears of operational disruptions have hindered cybersecurity progress. As a result of this convergence, 45% of modern OT compromises originate in IT environments.3

Tenable early access customers from a variety of industries - including hospitality, financial services, education, food and beverage, and government agencies - uncovered a large number of unknown OT and IoT assets upon initial deployments, with most customers uncovering between 100 and 1000+ unique assets, including some with critical vulnerabilities.

Customer benefits of the integrated OT discovery engine include:

  • Accelerate OT security compliance: Instant deployment without the need to procure and deploy new sensors, hardware or specialized point solutions enables organizations to adhere to evolving cyber-physical systems regulatory and audit requirements with confidence.
  • Eliminate operational blind spots – Gain immediate, foundational visibility into hidden assets and device attributes—including vendor, model, firmware, backplane details, running state and more—without operational disruption.
  • Break down security silos: Unite cyber-physical asset and exposure data directly within the Tenable One platform, providing security teams with a complete view of the organization's total cyber exposure across AI, IT, cloud, identity and OT domains