Tenable is updating its Vulnerability Precedence Score (VPR) methodology of scoring vulnerabilities to allow organizations to focus their efforts on essentially the most important and impactful vulnerabilities.
In accordance with the corporate, Widespread Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), which is utilized by the CVE database, flags 60% of vulnerabilities as excessive or important. When Tenable VPR was launched in 2019, it solely flagged 3% as excessive or important, and at present’s updates deliver that quantity all the way 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 scale back the variety of vulnerabilities flagged as important is that it recalculates danger prioritization each evening for over 280,000 totally different vulnerabilities, predicts the probability of a vulnerability being exploited within the close to future, and offers a precedence ranking on a scale from 1 to 10.
VPR additionally now makes use of AI to generate menace summaries and remediation insights. Moreover, Tenable added enhanced filtering, querying, and metadata to allow organizations to prioritize vulnerabilities primarily based on threats particular to their trade and area.
“We’re taking our game-changing Tenable VPR to the following degree with these AI-powered enhancements,” mentioned Eric Doerr, chief product officer at Tenable. “Tenable VPR brings an unmatched precision and depth of menace intelligence, context and explainability to cyber operations. With these important 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 can be going by means of the updates to VPR in a webinar on Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at 11 AM ET (8 AM PT).
