Threat & Vulnerability · Integration
Tenable
Add Tenable to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
Tenable tells a customer what is vulnerable, and the records that matter are the asset, the findings against it identified by plugin, the scans that produced them and the tags that organise an estate. An embedded Tenable integration turns that into remediation work somebody owns rather than a dashboard nobody opens. Three facts shape the build. The products differ: Tenable Vulnerability Management is cloud and reached with an access key and a secret key rather than OAuth, while Tenable Security Center runs on the customer's own network at their own URL, so which one they have changes the connection. Findings recur by design, since every scan re-reports a plugin that is still true, so records key on the finding rather than on the event that delivered it. And exports are asynchronous: you request one, poll for chunks, then download.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let each customer connect their own Tenable Vulnerability Management container or Security Center instance, since the two are reached differently.
Read assets together with their findings, so the work your product creates attaches to a machine somebody is accountable for.
Pull findings through the export flow, requesting chunks and downloading them rather than expecting a simple page.
Filter by the customer's own tags, because that is how a large estate is actually divided between teams.
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
An agent lists which findings on a tag group are critical and how long each has been open.
An agent compares the newest scan with the one before it and names what appeared or cleared.
An agent explains what a plugin actually detects before a team decides how urgent it is.
Example prompt
In this tag, which findings are still critical after the latest scan, and how long has the oldest been open?
Set up Tenable in 4 steps
- 01Enable the Tenable connector in your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer supply an access key and secret key for their own cloud container, or the URL and credentials for a Security Center instance.
- 03Map the asset, finding, scan and tag fields your product uses, and decide which tags scope what it shows.
- 04Call it from your product and expose the same connection to your agents through the MCP gateway.
Why teams use the Tenable integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship a Tenable integration without building it. Your customers connect their own Tenable account inside your product and work their findings, detections and assets there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: a rescan re-reports everything, so the same finding arriving twice must not read as two problems. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so a Tenable update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed Tenable connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you get security findings in front of the people and systems that act on them without wiring it twice.
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PagerDutyTenable integration FAQ
How do I add a Tenable integration to my product?
Enable the Tenable connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own Tenable account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no Tenable client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own Tenable account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own Tenable account and only ever sees their own findings, detections and assets. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this Tenable integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. An agent lists which findings on a tag group are critical and how long each has been open.
Who maintains the Tenable integration?
fastn does. When Tenable changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
How does a new Tenable finding reach my product?
Through event triggers rather than polling, delivered per tenant, so your product reacts when a finding is raised or its severity changes rather than on a schedule that is always slightly out of date.
How is Tenable finding noise kept manageable?
Findings are deduplicated per asset so a rescan does not re-raise what you already have, and you can filter by severity and status before anything reaches your product. That matters more here than in most integrations, because the volume is what stops teams acting on any of it.
What can I build with the Tenable integration?
A common starting point: let each customer connect their own Tenable Vulnerability Management container or Security Center instance, since the two are reached differently. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the Tenable integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding Tenable does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add Tenable to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.