Tenable has announced a partnership with AI company Anthropic to develop new AI-driven capabilities for its Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, alongside the general availability of Tenable Hexa AI.
The company said the collaboration will introduce Claude-powered workflows within Tenable Hexa AI, which it describes as an “agentic engine” intended to help organisations prioritise and remediate cyber risk across a modern attack surface using data drawn from its Tenable Exposure Data Fabric, third-party sources and Tenable Research.
“The volume of exposures is increasing, the time between discovery and exploit is shrinking, and security teams need a fundamentally different approach. That’s why Tenable has developed a deep working relationship with Anthropic,” said Mark Thurmond, co-CEO of Tenable. “With Claude-fuelled innovations we are accelerating R&D and our exposure management roadmap, while rapidly advancing solutions like Tenable Hexa AI so customers can strengthen their pre-emptive security programs, powered by agentic workflows.”
Tenable said it plans to apply Claude to cybersecurity operations including prioritisation, remediation orchestration and exposure analysis.
“As AI reshapes cybersecurity, organisations need to integrate AI into their security operations,” said Jason Clinton, Deputy CISO, Anthropic. “We’re excited to work with Tenable to apply Claude’s capabilities to help customers better understand risk, prioritise action, and respond faster.”
As part of the release, Tenable said Hexa AI includes multi-step reasoning and support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which it says enables custom agent building and workflows.
The announcement also argues that “frontier” AI models are accelerating vulnerability discovery, widening the gap between identifying exposures and remediating them. Tenable is positioning Hexa AI as a way to automate security workflows that contextualise and prioritise exposures and connect into existing security and IT tools.
New capabilities outlined for Tenable Hexa AI include advanced multi-step reasoning, automated remediation workflows such as creating and routing tickets, and “end-to-end exposure path insights” including queries by identity attributes and assistance for Active Directory sensor configurations.
“AI Agents operating without the right guardrails and harness can be unpredictable, brittle, or unsafe in real-world enterprise environments,” said Eric Doerr, Chief Product Officer, Tenable. “This is where Tenable Hexa AI shines. It’s an agentic force; a multi-domain, enterprise-ready AI engine built for end-to-end trust — one that wraps powerful models in the structure, controls and oversight they need to act reliably and safely at scale. It doesn’t just suggest the next step; it orchestrates the entire workflow to neutralize risk before it can be exploited, with the guardrails that make that autonomy something enterprises can actually trust.”
Tenable said Hexa AI operates within what it calls a “complete agentic harness” intended to provide visibility, guardrails and auditability for production use.
According to Tenable, Hexa AI is available to Tenable One Foundation and Tenable One Advanced customers.
