Tenable
Tenable provides actionable insight into your entire infrastructure’s security risks, allowing you to quickly and accurately identify, investigate, and prioritize vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in your modern IT environment.
Creating a Tenable connection
To create the connection you need:
- A valid user account with appropriate permissions
- An API access key
- An API secret key
Obtaining the credentials
The method to generate API keys varies depending on the role assigned to your user account.
- Administrators can generate API keys for any user account. For more information, see Generate Another User’s API Keys.
- Other roles can generate API keys for their own account.
Option 1: Generate API keys for your own account
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Do one of the following:
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In the upper-left corner, click the Menu button. The left navigation pane appears.
- In the left navigation plane, click Settings. The Settings page appears.
- Click My Account. The My Account page appears. You can view and update your account details.
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In the upper-right corner, click the Account button. The user account menu appears.
- Click My Account. The My Account page appears.
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Click the API Keys tab. The API Keys section appears.
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Click Generate. The Generate API Keys window appears with a warning.
Caution: Any existing API keys are replaced when you click the Generate button. You must update the applications where the previous API keys were used.
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Review the warning and click Generate. Tenable.io generates new access and secret keys, and displays the new keys in the Custom API Keys section of the page.
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Copy the new access and secret keys to a safe location.
Option 2: Generate another user’s API Keys
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Edit a user account. The Edit User page appears.
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In the API Keys section, click Generate API Keys.
Caution: Any existing API keys are replaced when you generate new API keys. You must update the applications where the previous API keys were used.
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Review the warning and click Replace & Generate. The Generate API Keys text box appears. The new access and secret keys for the account appear in the text box.
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(Optional) Click Re-generate API Keys.
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Copy the new access and secret keys to a safe location.
Creating your connection
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In the Blink platform, navigate to the Connections page > Add connection. A New Connection dialog box opens displaying icons of external service providers available.
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Select the Tenable icon. A dialog box with name of the connection and connection methods appears.
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(Optional) Edit the name of the connection. At a later stage you cannot edit the name.
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Select Secret Key as the method to create the connection.
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Fill in the parameters:
- The secret key
- The access key
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(Optional) Click Test Connection to test it.
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Click Create connection. The new connection appears on the Connections page.
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