Tenable Vulnerability Management

This guide walks you through creating a Tenable Vulnerability Management connector profile.

Prerequisites

You need a user with at least Basic Permission, no specific privileges are required. If you want to create new user with minimum permissions, please follow step 1 else you can directly go to step 2.

Log in to Tenable Console at cloud.tenable.com. Once logged in, click the Settings gear in the top right corner and go to Access Control.
Here, you can either use the logged-in user account or
Create a service user account (with an email not tied to an employee), which we recommend for production environments.
Assign the new account the minimal role of Basic User.
Log out of the current user, and then log in using the newly created account.

In the upper-right corner, click on the profile avatar for the logged-in user and navigate to the user's My Profile.
In the left-side navigation, select API KEYS
In the bottom-right, click the Generate button. A warning in the top-right will appear, stating that this operation will overwrite any previously generated keys. Click Continue You will be provided with two keys: access key and secret key.
- NOTE: Copy both and store them at secure place as they won’t be shown again.