Tenable Vulnerability Management and PCI-ASV
Identify and prioritise vulnerabilities based on risk to your business. The PCI ASV add-on allows you to take an unlimited number of comprehensive scans of your networks so you can identify and address vulnerabilities and ensure your organisation complies with PCI DSS.
Features
- Customer-friendly elastic asset licensing
- Comprehensive assessment options
- Real-time continuous assessment
- Accurate asset-based vulnerability tracking
- Vulnerability prioritization based on actual risk
- Simplified vulnerability management
- Automated cloud visibility
- Pre-built integrations and documented API and integrated SDK
- SLA with Uptime guarantee
Benefits
- Continuously track known and unknown assets and their vulnerabilities
- Identify threats/unexpected network changes before they turn into breaches
- Boost Productivity: run initial assessments in less than 5 minutes
- Prioritise Vulnerabilities: risk scores to identify business risk
- Automate Processes: fully documented API and pre-built integrations
- Eliminate repeat counting of assets that have multiple IP addresses
Pricing
- Education pricing available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
2 7 4 1 0 4 4 6 5 4 0 7 6 8 6
Contact
KHIPU NETWORKS LIMITED
Sales Team
Telephone: 0345 272 0900
Email: sales@khipu-networks.com
About your service
- Service categories
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Systems Infrastructure Software
Security
- Security analytics
- Governance, risk and compliance
- Multi cloud support
- Yes
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
- Public cloud
- Service constraints
- Must be accessed via a web browser
- System requirements
- Deployment guide available upon request
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support response times
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KHIPU offers support packages with SLAs for 24x7x365 or business hours (08:00–18:00). Response times depend on incident priority, agreed with customer:
P1 – Urgent: Critical outages or major incidents requiring immediate attention - response within 1 hour.
P2 – High: Significant issues affecting important functionality but do not completely halt operations - response within 2 hours.
P3 – Medium: Moderate impact, such as warnings or non-critical alerts - response within 4 hours.
P4 – Low: Minor issues, or informational requests that have little to no operational impact - response within 4 hours.
Cases are logged and automatically confirmed by email. - User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
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KHIPU is committed to delivering exceptional technical and after-sales support throughout and beyond project implementation. We provide maintenance and support for all supplied solutions, ensuring equipment is serviced to the agreed level of cover. Our support services include:
• Maintain Services: Break-fix support with 1st, 2nd and 3rd line troubleshooting for all KHIPU delivered solutions. KHIPU holds top-level certifications and works directly with manufacturers as required.
• Monitor Services: Proactive monitoring, alerting and analysis.
• Fully Managed Service: Complete responsibility for device management.
• Co-Managed Service: Shared responsibility for device management.
• SOC Service: Comprehensive detection and response to protect critical infrastructure from cyber threats.
All services are available 24x7x365 or during business hours (08:00–18:00) and include support via telephone, email, secure portal and remote access.
Every customer is assigned a Technical Account Manager to ensure SLAs are met and support requirements are fulfilled. Customer references are available on request to demonstrate our proven track record. - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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Getting Started Guide
The KHIPU Getting Started Guide document is issued to all new customers and provides essential information for accessing technical and after-sales support. It begins with an overview of KHIPU’s ethos and commitment to delivering exceptional service during and after project implementation. The guide explains the onboarding process, including account setup, portal access, and escalation procedures.
Initial Setup & TAC Activation
After a support service is purchased, customers are contacted to arrange an onboarding call.
The Case Management Team provides a personalised walkthrough of:
KHIPU TAC procedures
Call logging process
Access to the KHIPU TAC Portal and File Share Portal
Key Steps in Onboarding
Account Creation: Customer details and authorised callers are registered on KHIPU systems.
Platform Access: Credentials for TAC portal and secure file sharing are provided.
Escalation & Complaint Procedures explained.
Maintenance and SLA details reviewed with the customer to ensure all details are correct.
NOC & Managed Services Onboarding
For customers using NOC Monitor, Monitor Plus, or Managed Services:
Asset registration, dashboard setup, and mobile app access (for enhanced tiers).
Health checks and dependency mapping are completed.
Quarterly reports and proactive monitoring are enabled and scheduled. - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
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KHIPU End-of-Contract Data Handover Checklist.
When a contract ends, KHIPU ensures a secure and compliant process for returning customer data if requested:
1. Data Identification
Confirm all customer-owned data, including logs, reports, configurations, and backups, across systems covered by the agreement.
2. Data Extraction
Prepare data in the agreed format (e.g., encrypted files, CSV, PDF) and verify completeness and integrity before transfer.
3. Secure Transfer
Use encrypted channels such as secure portals or physical media. Apply encryption for data at rest and in transit, and confirm authorised recipient access with multi-factor authentication.
4. Customer Confirmation
Obtain written confirmation that the data has been received and validated for integrity and usability.
5. Data Destruction
Remove all residual copies from KHIPU systems and confirm deletion within the agreed timeframe.
6. Compliance
Ensure all steps comply with GDPR and Data Protection Laws. The process is documented for audit purposes.
This structured approach guarantees security, transparency, and legal compliance during the data handover process. - End-of-contract process
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At the end of the contract, if the organisation chooses not to renew and continue with the service, all data pertaining to the organisation is deleted. If the organisation chooses to renew then the service continues as normal. 90-days prior to the contract expiration date an initial reminder email is sent, followed up by gradually increasing reminders until the date of expiration.
Included in the Price
Data extraction and secure transfer in standard agreed formats.
Customer confirmation and validation process.
Secure deletion of residual data.
Compliance with GDPR and legal requirements.
Additional Costs
Bespoke data formats or media (e.g., physical drives, custom encryption).
Accelerated timelines for data handover or destruction.
Extended storage beyond the agreed retention period.
Consultancy or technical support for data migration to third-party systems. - Documentation accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the documentation is accessible
- Documentation is provided directly to designated contacts.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- No
- Service interface
- Yes
- User support accessibility
- WCAG 2.2 A
- Description of service interface
- The Tenable One service interface is a unified, web-based platform designed for Exposure Management. Its core is the Global Exposure View and Centralised Asset Inventory, providing comprehensive visibility across IT, Cloud, OT, and Identity assets. The interface uses dashboards to visualise the Tenable Lumin Exposure Score (CES), a risk-based metric, with trend data and peer benchmarking. It features Attack Path Analysis to map likely threats and allows users to drill down into specific assets and vulnerabilities for prioritised remediation and reporting.
- Accessibility standards
- WCAG 2.2 A
- Accessibility testing
- Detailed response available here: https://www.tenable.com/section-508-voluntary-product-accessibility
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- Users can easily integrate and automate the sharing of capabilities and vulnerability data, or build on the platform, leveraging a fully documented API set and SDK. There is no extra cost to use these tools to maximise the value of your vulnerability data.
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- HTML
- API sandbox or test environment
- Yes
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
- Tenable Vulnerability Management has a large number of filtering options available for the purpose of filtering down the resultant vulnerability and configuration data. These filters can be combined in various ways and allows for the organisation to quickly filter down to the subset of the data that is pertinent to the task at that time.
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- Tenable commits to provide 99.95% average uptime with respect to the Cloud Services during each calendar month of the subscription term. http://static.tenable.com/prod_docs/Service_Level_Commitment.pdf. Currently (April 2022) Tenable Vulnerability Management utilises AWS autoscaling to provide expansion of the service as required
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
- Tenable Vulnerability Management uses detailed, data‑driven service metrics to measure exposure, prioritisation, and remediation effectiveness. Key metrics include discovery dates, exploitability ratings, exploit maturity levels, and CVSS‑based severity scores to assess risk accurately. Predictive analytics powered by machine learning highlight vulnerabilities most likely to be exploited, improving prioritisation and accelerating remediation decision‑making. Additional metrics such as mean time to detect, containment speed, and patch efficiency support continuous improvement and help security teams understand operational performance and exposure trends.
- Reporting types
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- API access
- Real-time dashboards
- Resource tagging
- Yes
- FOCUS resource tagging
- Yes
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Tenable
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Security Clearance (SC)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- United Kingdom
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- No
- Datacentre security standards
- Supplier-defined controls
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- In-house
- Protecting data at rest
- Other
- Other data at rest protection approach
- Tenable Vulnerability Management uses state-of-the-art container technology to create and segregate customer environments. All customer accounts, vulnerability data and user settings are contained within a container uniquely allocated to each specific customer. Data contained within one container cannot leak or otherwise be intermingled with another container, thus ensuring the privacy, security and independence of each customer environment.
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Equipment disposal approach
- In-house destruction process
- Data sanitisation type
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed / Cryptographic Erasure
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Via the console or via API calls.
- Data export formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data export formats
- Data import formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data import formats
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- Private network or public sector network
- Data protection within supplier network
- Other
- Other protection within supplier network
- All customer data is marked with a "container ID", which corresponds to a single customer subscription. This container ID assures that access to a customer’s data is limited to only that customer. All data is encrypted at all times; at rest and in-transit.
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Tenable commits to provide 99.95% average uptime with respect to the Cloud Services during each calendar month of the subscription term. If in any calendar month this uptime commitment is not met by Tenable and Customer was negatively impacted, Tenable shall provide, as the sole and exclusive remedy for unavailability or performance degradation of the specific Tenable Cloud Services, a service credit.
- Approach to resilience
- Tenable uses health and status data to detect and address potential issues in a timely manner, thereby maintaining SLA commitments. Tenable Cloud services are replicated both within and across AWS regions. Should both instances in a region fail (or the region suffers an outage in general), the regional-failover layer (usually using dynamic DNS) will instead direct traffic to the other three regions. Failover is closest-path to the traffic origin.
- Outage reporting
- Tenable Vulnerability Management disaster recovery procedures have several levels and are designed to react to situations that may occur from anywhere between once in five years to once in 50 years. Depending on the scope of the disaster, the recovery procedures vary in time from 60 minutes to 24 hours.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
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- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- User accounts are assigned roles that dictate the level of access a user has in Tenable Vulnerability Management. You can change the role of a user account at any time, as well as disable the account.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Management access authentication
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- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- How long system logs are stored for
- At least 12 months
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
- KHIPU adhere to ISO policies and procedures. We are certified to ISO9001 (Quality Management), ISO27001 (Information Security Management), ISO14001 (Environmental Management) and ISO45001 (Occupational health and safety). Any potential breach or risk of security or process is highlighted to senior management including the board of directors immediately.
- Software Security Code of Practice
- Yes
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- All service configuration changes follow an ITIL-based Change Control Process. Requests must be logged via the KHIPU Supportdesk and submitted by authorised personnel only. Each change is assessed for technical suitability, security risks, and service impact. Findings are clearly communicated to the customer, who makes the final decision to proceed, including consideration of any commercial implications. This process ensures a full audit trail and that all aspects of the change are reviewed before implementation.
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- KHIPU uses continuous scanning tools like Tenable Nessus and Qualys to identify vulnerabilities across servers, applications, and networks. Findings are assessed using CVSSv3 and prioritised from Low to Critical. Asset and service owners remediate issues, with critical/high vulnerabilities patched within 14 days of discovery. The process includes identification, classification, remediation, and verification, with reports provided within five business days post-remediation. Threat intelligence is sourced from vendor advisories, industry platforms, and external feeds, ensuring timely updates and compliance with ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus. This proactive, risk-based approach enables rapid response and strong security across all services.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- KHIPU provides 24x7x365 protective monitoring via its Security and Network Operations Centre using Cyber Managed Detection and Response (CMDR). Servers, firewalls, and critical assets are continuously monitored for abnormal behaviour, trend anomalies, and suspicious logs. Potential compromises trigger real-time alerts, followed by immediate triage, severity validation, and escalation to technical teams. Customers are informed through agreed channels. Response times meet strict SLAs: critical within one hour, high within two, and medium/low within four. This proactive approach, combining automated monitoring, early indicators, and structured escalation, ensures rapid detection and resolution while maintaining compliance and service integrity.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
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KHIPU’s approach to incident management is ITIL-aligned and prioritises rapid resolution.
Customers log incidents via telephone, email or support portal with required details. Cases are categorised by priority in agreement with the customer:
P1 – Urgent: Critical outages or major incidents requiring immediate attention
P2 – High: Significant issues affecting functionality, not completely halting operations.
P3 – Medium: Moderate impact, e.g. warnings or non-critical alerts.
P4 – Low: Minor issues, or informational requests with negligible operational impact.
Service-affecting incidents are escalated to 2nd/3rd line teams and account/technical managers. Escalation procedures and SLAs are provided during onboarding, ensuring transparency and accountability. - Post-quantum cryptography secure
- No
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Supplier-defined process
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Pricing
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- No
Discount percentage by annual call-off contract value (excluding VAT)
- Less than £250,000
- 10%
- Between £250,000 and £500,000
- 10%
- Between £500,001 and £1,000,000
- 10%
- Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000
- 10%
- Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000
- 10%
- Over £5,000,001
- 10%
Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- LRQA
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- Tuesday 6 May 2025
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- Not applicable, all business areas and operational offices are in scope of the certificate.
- ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- ISO 9001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification
- LRQA
- ISO 9001 accreditation date
- Tuesday 6 May 2025
- What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover
- Not applicable, all business areas and operational offices are in scope of the certificate.
- Quality management systems (QMS)
- Yes
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
- De598042-4dcc-442e-abff-8c64f3d32edb
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number
- Fa457bce-7b40-4650-a92d-0f1919abfd7a
- Other security certifications
- No
Social value
- Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority
- New apprenticeships on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b
- Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
- Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
- Employment contracts that reflect actual hours worked; steps taken to ensure employees understand their contracts and have the ability to review and adjust them if actual hours regularly exceed contracted hours
- Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
- Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
- Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
- Plans for an appropriate income replacement policy for staff who are required to spend time away from work to care for a sick dependent or close relative
- Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
- Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
- Volunteering opportunities for staff
- Understanding of the modern slavery risks and issues affecting the market, industry, sector or country (of origin or of source) relevant to the contract, and the workforce in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key subcontractors
- Outline policies and practices to be applied to or put in place for the contract to mitigate and manage modern slavery risks, including: Pre-employment checks, recruitment practices. Workplace conditions, safeguarding plans and processes in place and regular monitoring with relevant groups considered, which may include sampling
- How the supplier will work with NGOs, trade unions or other businesses to address modern slavery risk
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.
- Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges
- Activities to support relevant sector related skills growth and sustainability in the contract workforce. Illustrative examples: careers talks, curriculum support, literacy support, safety talks and volunteering
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises
- Understanding of the types of businesses in the market and the level of participation by new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
- Plans for engaging a diverse range of businesses in engagement activities prior to appointing subcontractors (including activities prior to award of the main contract and during the contract term)
- Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
- Plans for positive actions with community groups.
- Plans to respond flexibly and adapt approaches to community engagement and initiatives
- Collaborating with anchor institutions and community groups to make facilities available for education, training or community events
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Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower: To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero
Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.
- Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
- Delivery of additional environmental benefits through the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
- Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
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Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain
Policy Outcome 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment
- Understanding of employment and skills issues, and of the skills and employment shortages of high growth sectors relating to the contract
- Understanding of the issues affecting the representation of disabled people in the workforce in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
- Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
- Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
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Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain
Policy Outcome 7: Creating a pipeline of opportunities: For the contract workforce, reducing barriers to entry for under-represented groups.
- Understanding of the underlying factors affecting improvements to reduce barriers to entry and training schemes for the target cohort(s) related to the contract workforce
- Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
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Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future: That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.
Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.
- Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
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