As cyber threats evolve and AI heightens attack sophistication, Tenable’s leadership marks a decisive shift from vulnerability management to proactive exposure management.
In a cybersecurity landscape where attacks evolve faster than defenses, Tenable® has once again demonstrated why it remains a force to reckon with. The company has been recognized as a Leader in the first-ever 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Exposure Assessment Platforms, earning the top position for Ability to Execute and ranking furthest for Completeness of Vision.
This recognition isn’t just another industry accolade — it represents a paradigm shift in how organizations must now think about cyber risk. As digital transformation expands the attack surface across cloud, AI, identity, and operational technology (OT), traditional vulnerability management is no longer sufficient. The modern enterprise requires exposure management — a strategy built on real-time visibility, context, and proactive remediation.
“Detection and response are no longer enough — enterprises need a proactive, unified view of their entire attack surface.”
– Mark Thurmond, Co-CEO, Tenable
“Tenable’s mission has always been to help organizations understand and reduce risk,” said Mark Thurmond, Co-CEO, Tenable. “Being named a Leader in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for Exposure Assessment Platforms validates our approach to helping customers stay ahead of attackers rather than reacting after the damage is done.”
At the heart of this strategy lies Tenable One, the company’s flagship Exposure Management Platform. By unifying data from across the modern attack surface — spanning IT, cloud, identity, and even AI-driven systems — Tenable provides a single, contextualized view of enterprise risk. With risk-based analytics and more than 300 ecosystem integrations, it empowers security teams to focus resources on the vulnerabilities that matter most.
Gartner’s decision to launch a Magic Quadrant dedicated to Exposure Assessment signals a clear industry inflection point. Enterprises can no longer afford to rely on fragmented detection and response models. As Thurmond aptly puts it, “With the weaponization of AI, detection and response are no longer adequate. The future lies in proactive, preemptive defense — and that’s where Tenable is leading.”
More than 44,000 organizations worldwide now rely on Tenable’s AI-powered platform to gain real-time, actionable insight into their cyber posture. Its continued leadership in both IDC MarketScape and Forrester Wave reports further reinforces its status as a frontrunner in the global race toward Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) — a framework Gartner itself has positioned as the next step in enterprise security maturity.
As enterprises face an era defined by intelligent threats and interconnected ecosystems, Tenable’s recognition by Gartner underscores one critical truth: the future of cybersecurity lies not in reacting to attacks, but in anticipating and eliminating exposures before they happen.
