Set up a Tenable Vulnerability Management connector

ConductorOne provides identity governance and just-in-time provisioning for Tenable VM. Integrate your Tenable VM instance with ConductorOne to run user access reviews (UARs) and enable just-in-time access requests.

Capabilities

Resource	Sync	Provision
Accounts	✅	✅
Groups	✅	✅
Roles	✅	✅
Permissions	✅	✅

The Tenable VM connector supports automatic account provisioning.

Gather Tenable VM credentials

Each setup method requires you to pass in credentials generated in Tenable VM. Gather these credentials before you move on.

A user with Administrator user role in Tenable VM must perform this task.

Generate an API key

In the Tenable VM UI, navigate to My Account and click API Keys.
Click Generate.
The new key is created, and its credentials are shown in the Custom API Keys section of the page. Carefully copy and save the access key and secret key.

That’s it! Next, move on to the connector configuration instructions.

Configure the Tenable VM connector

To complete this task, you’ll need:
The Connector Administrator or Super Administrator role in ConductorOne
Access to the set of Tenable VM credentials generated by following the instructions above

Follow these instructions to use a built-in, no-code connector hosted by ConductorOne.

In ConductorOne, navigate to Admin > Connectors and click Add connector.
Search for Tenable VM and click Add.
Don’t see the Tenable VM connector? Reach out to support@conductorone.com to add Tenable VM to your Connectors page.
Choose how to set up the new Tenable VM connector:
- Add the connector to a currently unmanaged app (select from the list of apps that were discovered in your identity, SSO, or federation provider that aren’t yet managed with ConductorOne)
- Add the connector to a managed app (select from the list of existing managed apps)
- Create a new managed app
Set the owner for this connector. You can manage the connector yourself, or choose someone else from the list of ConductorOne users. Setting multiple owners is allowed.
If you choose someone else, ConductorOne will notify the new connector owner by email that their help is needed to complete the setup process.
Click Next.
Find the Settings area of the page and click Edit.
Paste your access key and secret key into the relevant fields.
Click Save.
The connector’s label changes to Syncing, followed by Connected. You can view the logs to ensure that information is syncing.

That’s it! Your Tenable VM connector is now pulling access data into ConductorOne.

Follow these instructions to use the Tenable VM connector, hosted and run in your own environment.

When running in service mode on Kubernetes, a self-hosted connector maintains an ongoing connection with ConductorOne, automatically syncing and uploading data at regular intervals. This data is immediately available in the ConductorOne UI for access reviews and access requests.

Step 1: Configure the Tenable VM connector

In ConductorOne, navigate to Connectors > Add connector.
Search for Baton and click Add.
Choose how to set up the new Tenable VM connector:
- Add the connector to a currently unmanaged app (select from the list of apps that were discovered in your identity, SSO, or federation provider that aren’t yet managed with ConductorOne)
- Add the connector to a managed app (select from the list of existing managed apps)
- Create a new managed app
Set the owner for this connector. You can manage the connector yourself, or choose someone else from the list of ConductorOne users. Setting multiple owners is allowed.
If you choose someone else, ConductorOne will notify the new connector owner by email that their help is needed to complete the setup process.
Click Next.
In the Settings area of the page, click Edit.
Click Rotate to generate a new Client ID and Secret.
Carefully copy and save these credentials. We’ll use them in Step 2.

Step 2: Create Kubernetes configuration files

Create two Kubernetes manifest files for your Tenable VM connector deployment:

Secrets configuration

# baton-tenable-vm-secrets.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: baton-tenable-vm-secrets
type: Opaque
stringData:
  # ConductorOne credentials
  BATON_CLIENT_ID: <ConductorOne client ID>
  BATON_CLIENT_SECRET: <ConductorOne client secret>
  
  # Tenable VM credentials
  BATON_ACCESS_KEY: <Tenable VM access key>
  BATON_SECRET_KEY: <Tenable VM secret key>

See the connector’s README or run --help to see all available configuration flags and environment variables.

Deployment configuration

# baton-tenable-vm.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: baton-tenable-vm
  labels:
    app: baton-tenable-vm
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: baton-tenable-vm
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: baton-tenable-vm
        baton: true
        baton-app: tenable-vm
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: baton-tenable-vm
        image: ghcr.io/conductorone/baton-tenable-vm:latest
        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
        envFrom:
        - secretRef:
            name: baton-tenable-vm-secrets

Step 3: Deploy the connector

Create a namespace in which to run ConductorOne connectors (if desired), then apply the secret config and deployment config files.
Check that the connector data uploaded correctly. In ConductorOne, click Applications. On the Managed apps tab, locate and click the name of the application you added the Tenable VM connector to. Tenable VM data should be found on the Entitlements and Accounts tabs.

That’s it! Your Tenable VM connector is now pulling access data into ConductorOne.