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Tenable launches AI Aware for insights into AI applications to reduce AI risk vulnerabilities
Tenable , the exposure management company , announced the release of AI Aware , advanced detection capabilities designed to rapidly surface Artificial Intelligence solutions , vulnerabilities and weaknesses available in Tenable Vulnerability Management . Tenable AI Aware provides exposure insight into AI applications , libraries and plugins so organisations can confidently expose and close AI risk , without inhibiting business operations . rushed development and deployment . Tenable AI Aware empowers organisations to deploy AI confidently , ensuring their security measures keep pace with the rapid evolution of AI technologies .”
In addition to AI software and vulnerability detection , key AI Aware features available in Tenable Vulnerability Management , Tenable Security Centre and Tenable One include :
The rapid development and adoption of AI technologies in the past two years has introduced major cybersecurity and compliance risks that organisations must proactively address without established best practices . As a result , cybersecurity teams face significant AIrelated challenges , such as vulnerability detection and remediation , containing data leakage and reining in unauthorised AI use .
According to recent Tenable Research , more than one-third of security teams are finding usage of AI applications in their environment that might not have been provisioned via formal processes . In fact , during a 75-day period between late June and early September , Tenable found over 9 million instances of AI applications on more than 1 million hosts .
The cybersecurity risk of unfettered AI usage is compounded by the increasing volume of AI vulnerabilities . Tenable Research has found and disclosed several vulnerabilities in AI solutions , including in Microsoft Copilot , Flo wise , Langflow , among others .
• Dashboard Views provide a snapshot of the most common AI software discovered in the ecosystem , top assets with vulnerabilities related to AI and the most common communication ports leveraged by AI technologies .
• Shadow Software Development Detection illuminates the unexpected existence of the building blocks of AI development in the environment , enabling businesses to align initiatives with organisational best practices .
• Filter Findings for AI Detections enable teams to focus on AIrelated findings when reviewing vulnerability assessment results . Combined with the power of Tenable Vulnerability Prioritisation Rating , VPR , teams can effectively assess and prioritise vulnerabilities introduced by AI packages and libraries .
• Asset-Centric AI-Inventory provides a complete inventory of AIrelated packages , libraries and browser plugins while reviewing the detailed profile of an asset . p
With AI Aware , Tenable transforms proactive security for AI solutions . Tenable AI Aware uniquely leverages agents , passive network monitoring , dynamic application security testing and distributed scan engines to detect approved and unapproved AI software , libraries and browser plugins , along with associated vulnerabilities , thereby mitigating risks of exploitation , data leakage and unauthorised resource consumption .
The combined depth of these multiple assessment methods delivers the most complete detection of AI in the modern ecosystem .
“ In an effort to keep pace with the sea change introduced by AI , organisations around the world ran full speed ahead , potentially bypassing countless cybersecurity , privacy and compliance red flags ,” said Shai Morag , Chief Product officer , Tenable .
“ Perhaps more so than with any other new technology we have seen , there are many risk factors to consider , especially with
Shai Morag , Chief Product officer , Tenable
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