Network security company Tenable Holdings Inc. today unveiled an artificial intelligence-powered update to its Vulnerability Priority Rating system, designed to help organizations better identify and respond to the vulnerabilities that pose the most serious threats.

The Tenable VPR system launched in 2019 as a way for companies to understand quickly the vulnerability impact on their business. Though the Common Vulnerability Scoring System broadly flags 60% of vulnerabilities as high or critical, Tenable VPR narrowed this to a focused 3%.

The new update, powered by AI-driven enhancements, delivers twice the clarity and precision by leveraging real-time data to pinpoint the critical 1.6% of vulnerabilities that represent actual business risk. The efficiency gains, along with enhanced explainability and contextualization, are said by Tenable to translate to faster mean time to remediation, optimized resources and strategically aligned security efforts with organizational priorities.

“We’re taking our game-changing Tenable VPR to the next level with these AI-powered enhancements,” said Chief Product Officer Eric Doerr. “Tenable VPR brings an unmatched precision and depth of threat intelligence, context and explainability to cyber operations.”

Along with hyper-focused risk prioritization, new enhancements to Tenable VPR include AI-powered insights and explainability. They include VPR insights providing instant clarity to help users quickly grasp why an exposure matters and how it has been weaponized by threat actors, and then receive clear, actionable mitigation guidance. AI-generated threat summaries and remediation insights help users quickly understand real-world risks and next steps.

The VPR system can now also prioritize with industry and regional context through enhanced filtering, querying and metadata. The result helps organizations understand and prioritize vulnerabilities based on real-world threats to their specific industry and region, ensuring critical exposures relevant to the business are addressed first.

The enhanced VPR service comes after Tenable acquired Vulcan Cyber Ltd., a company that helps enterprises fix vulnerabilities in their infrastructure, for $150 million in January. Among the technology Vulcan brought to Tenable was a platform that organized cybersecurity data and enriched it with additional details.

At the time of the acquisition, Tenable said that it would use Vulcan’s technology to enhance its vulnerability detection and remediation platform. Though Tenable hasn’t said that its enhanced VPR system is using tech gained from Vulcan, it’s highly possible that it may have.

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