Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful technology with the potential to dramatically improve economic productivity. But over the last few months, AI agents developed by labs like OpenAI have escaped test environments and autonomously launched cyberattacks on corporate and government websites, raising concerns about the safety of critical digital infrastructure.
Understandably, cybersecurity is now a top priority for most organizations, so some of the best providers have seen their values soar. Tenable (NASDAQ: TENB) stock, for instance, is now sitting on a year-to-date gain of 48.6% (as of the market close on Tuesday, Sept. 29), outperforming the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) by a factor of four.
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Tenable specializes in exposure management, a proactive form of enterprise-grade cybersecurity that identifies vulnerabilities in corporate networks before cyberattackers can exploit them. The company is likely to see growing demand for its products over the next few years, so its stock could be a great long-term investment, especially since it trades at a steep discount to its rivals.
Exposure management is critical in the AI era
Tenable owns Nessus, the cybersecurity industry’s most widely deployed, most accurate platform for identifying vulnerabilities. It scans operating systems, networks, and devices around the clock for vulnerabilities in their defenses so they can be fixed before being exploited. But this tool alone isn’t enough in the AI era, so Tenable offers an expanding portfolio of even more advanced products.
These products are available under a comprehensive platform called Tenable One, which fulfills every exposure management requirement an enterprise might have. It’s powered by an agentic AI engine called Hexa AI, which orchestrates a fleet of AI agents to handle tasks like building risk dashboards, running scans, and scheduling remediation. It learns how corporate assets interact, so it’s equipped with enough context to flag potential vulnerabilities.
Tenable One also protects enterprises that are deploying AI. It features a tool called AI Exposure, which continuously monitors how employees use AI applications and which critical assets those applications can access, enabling it to identify potential vulnerabilities. It can also uncover instances of prompt injection, in which hackers trick internal AI applications into handing over sensitive data by disguising their malicious requests as legitimate instructions.
