Tenable is updating its Vulnerability Precedence Score (VPR) technique of scoring vulnerabilities to allow organizations to focus their efforts on essentially the most vital and impactful vulnerabilities.
In response to the corporate, Widespread Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), which is utilized by the CVE database, flags 60% of vulnerabilities as excessive or vital. When Tenable VPR was launched in 2019, it solely flagged 3% as excessive or vital, and as we speak’s updates carry that quantity right down to 1.6%.
Tenable says this cuts down on noise, resulting in quicker mean-time-to-remediation, optimized assets, and safety efforts which can be higher aligned with organizational priorities.
A number of the methods Tenable is ready to cut back the variety of vulnerabilities flagged as vital is that it recalculates threat prioritization each evening for over 280,000 completely different vulnerabilities, predicts the probability of a vulnerability being exploited within the close to future, and offers a precedence score on a scale from 1 to 10.
VPR additionally now makes use of AI to generate risk summaries and remediation insights. Moreover, Tenable added enhanced filtering, querying, and metadata to allow organizations to prioritize vulnerabilities based mostly on threats particular to their business and area.
“We’re taking our game-changing Tenable VPR to the following stage with these AI-powered enhancements,” stated Eric Doerr, chief product officer at Tenable. “Tenable VPR brings an unmatched precision and depth of risk intelligence, context and explainability to cyber operations. With these vital insights at their fingertips, organizations can clearly visualize why an publicity issues, the place they’re susceptible and learn how to shut their precedence dangers.”
The corporate might be going via the updates to VPR in a webinar on Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at 11 AM ET (8 AM PT).
