Tenable recently expanded its Tenable One exposure management platform with AI Exposure, a comprehensive solution designed to address generative AI security risks in enterprise environments. Announced at Black Hat USA 2025, the platform addresses the growing visibility gap as organizations rapidly adopt AI tools, such as ChatGPT Enterprise and Microsoft Copilot.

The solution combines discovery capabilities from existing Tenable AI Aware technology with new risk management and policy enforcement features through AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM).

Currently available in private preview with general availability expected by the end of 2025, this represents Tenable’s strategic expansion beyond traditional vulnerability management into emerging AI security challenges.

Technical Details

Tenable AI Exposure operates as an integrated component within the Tenable One platform, leveraging an agentless architecture that the company states enables deployment within minutes. The technical foundation builds upon three core technological pillars that work in concert to provide comprehensive AI security coverage.

The platform targets enterprise AI platforms specifically, with initial support for ChatGPT Enterprise and Microsoft Copilot environments. In these environments, the solution can analyze AI agent behaviors, workflow triggers across integrated systems, and data movement patterns between AI platforms and connected systems.

AI Discovery Engine

The comprehensive AI discovery engine represents the foundational layer, unifying insights from multiple data sources, including Tenable AI Aware scanning capabilities, AI Security Posture Management continuous monitoring, and real-time behavioral analysis.

This discovery mechanism provides visibility into both sanctioned and unsanctioned AI usage across enterprise environments, capturing detailed metrics on user interactions, data flows, and activities that potentially introduce security risks.

The system maintains continuous monitoring capabilities to track AI usage patterns and identify changes in deployment or usage that may impact security posture.

AI Security Posture Management

AI Security Posture Management forms the analytical core of the platform, implementing risk assessment algorithms that evaluate AI exposures across multiple dimensions. The system identifies and prioritizes risks associated with sensitive data leakage, including personally identifiable information (PII), payment card information (PCI), and protected health information (PHI).

Additionally, AI-SPM analyzes configuration settings across AI platforms to detect misconfigurations and evaluates third-party integrations for potential security vulnerabilities. The vendor claims this component provides automated risk scoring and prioritization to help security teams focus on the most critical exposures.

Governance & Control

The governance and control layer implements policy enforcement mechanisms designed to prevent risky user behaviors and mitigate novel AI-specific threats. This includes detection and prevention capabilities for prompt injection attacks, both direct and indirect variants, jailbreak attempts that seek to bypass AI safety controls, and malicious output manipulation techniques.

The system implements configurable security guardrails that organizations can customize according to their specific risk tolerance and operational requirements.

Impact to IT & Cybersecurity Practitioners

Security practitioners face significant operational advantages from consolidated AI risk visibility within existing exposure management workflows:

• Integration with Tenable One eliminates the need for standalone AI security tools, reducing complexity in security operations centers and leveraging existing analyst expertise with Tenable platforms.
• Agentless deployment model minimizes implementation overhead compared to agent-based alternatives.
• Unified dashboard approach streamlines risk assessment processes across multiple security domains.

However, practitioners must consider substantial implementation challenges. The effectiveness of AI-specific threat detection relies heavily on the accuracy of behavioral baselines and the platform’s ability to distinguish legitimate AI usage from potentially malicious activity.

Organizations will need to invest in policy development and fine-tuning to minimize false positives while ensuring comprehensive coverage of AI-related risks. The learning curve for AI-specific threats, such as prompt injection and jailbreak techniques, may require additional training for security teams that are traditionally focused on infrastructure vulnerabilities.

Analysis

Tenable AI Exposure positions the company to address growing enterprise concerns about AI security risks through its established exposure management platform.

The solution’s comprehensive approach, spanning discovery, risk assessment, and policy enforcement, addresses real market needs as organizations struggle with AI visibility and control challenges. Integration with Tenable One provides operational advantages that differentiate the platform from standalone AI security solutions.

The enterprise AI security market remains in early stages with rapidly evolving requirements and competitive dynamics. Tenable, with its platform approach, puts the company in a strong position to capture value from organizations seeking consolidated risk management.

For enterprises already invested in Tenable platforms, AI Exposure offers compelling integration benefits that justify evaluation, particularly for organizations prioritizing operational efficiency over specialized AI security capabilities.

The new capability demonstrates that Tenable recognizes AI security cannot be treated as an isolated domain, but must be integrated into comprehensive risk management strategies. This forward-thinking approach positions Tenable to capture significant value as AI adoption accelerates and organizations demand mature, operationally integrated security solutions rather than experimental point products.

Competitive Outlook & Advice to IT Buyers

Tenable enters the AI security market with established customer relationships and platform integration advantages that create barriers to competitive displacement.

The company’s existing exposure management platform provides a foundation for AI security that pure-play AI security startups cannot easily replicate. Integration with Tenable One provides customers with operational efficiency benefits and simplifies vendor management complexity.

However, Tenable faces competitive challenges from multiple directions….

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