LevelBlue Expands Its USM Platform With Unlimited Tenable Vulnerability Scanning at No Extra Cost

LevelBlue Expands Its USM Platform With Unlimited Tenable Vulnerability Scanning at No Extra Cost

Key Takeaways

• LevelBlue is embedding Tenable’s enterprise-grade scanning and risk analytics directly into its USM platform for all clients, with no added fees.
• The partnership gives organizations continuous visibility across on‑premises, cloud, and hybrid assets, paired with LevelBlue's detection and response context.
• MSSP partners can extend Tenable scanning through LevelBlue’s platform without additional operational burden.

LevelBlue is making a rare move in the cybersecurity services world: it’s giving away a capability that most vendors still treat as a billable feature. The company announced that every client using the LevelBlue Unified Security Management (USM) platform will now receive unlimited, enterprise‑grade vulnerability scanning powered by Tenable—without add‑ons, license expansions, or parallel contracts. It’s not often you see a managed security provider collapse an entire cost category like this, and the timing matters. Many security teams are already juggling fragmented scanning tools, partial coverage, and a patchwork of visibility gaps that never seem to shrink.

The expanded partnership builds on Tenable’s long‑standing presence in vulnerability and exposure management. By bringing Tenable scanning and analytics directly into USM, LevelBlue is offering continuous discovery and assessment across on‑premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. That kind of breadth usually requires a separate procurement cycle—or three. Here, it’s included. It sounds like a small detail, but it tells you a lot about how LevelBlue wants to differentiate in a crowded MDR and MSSP market.

Michael Vaughn, Director of Product Management at LevelBlue, framed the initiative clearly: LevelBlue is aligning with "the exposure management leader" to offer unlimited scanning at no cost because visibility shouldn’t be a premium feature. The statement tracks with what many CISOs have been saying under their breath for years. Why pay more just to see what assets you actually have?

The benefits outlined by the companies track directly to common enterprise pain points. Clients get unlimited scans, deeper visibility into both known and unknown assets, and faster remediation through integrated workflows. The scanning results feed into LevelBlue’s existing detection and response capabilities, creating a unified security context instead of yet another dashboard to stare at. And for organizations that want more refinement, Tenable’s Vulnerability Priority Rating—an AI‑powered ranking system—remains available as an optional layer. Anyone who has spent time sorting through thousands of medium‑severity findings will understand why that matters.

One interesting aspect is the partner angle. LevelBlue highlights that its MSSP partners can now extend Tenable scanning to their own customers through the USM platform with no additional operational overhead. Some partners may quietly see this as a competitive wedge: the ability to say “yes, we include enterprise‑grade scanning by default” without eroding service margins. It’s rare alignment—benefits for clients that don’t come at the ecosystem’s expense.

Still, the partnership doesn’t stop at scanning. LevelBlue emphasizes that vulnerability detection is only the starting point. The company is moving deeper into exposure management by correlating Tenable findings with live detections, asset context, exploit intelligence, and criticality data inside USM. The idea is to transform raw lists of CVEs into insights teams can actually act on. Anyone who has ever inherited a 200‑page monthly scan report knows the difference between more data and better information.

The platform also supports automated remediation through ITSM and SecOps integrations—a capability that sits quietly in the announcement but will matter to operations teams that can’t manually chase every finding. The ability to track remediation progress and demonstrate measurable risk reduction isn’t new in the market, but pairing it with unlimited scanning changes the dynamic. If scans are unlimited, assessment can become continuous. And if assessment becomes continuous, the accuracy of exposure insight improves naturally. It raises a question many security leaders will be pondering: what does this mean for organizations that currently scan once a month or once a quarter?

There’s a practical ripple effect here. By removing cost constraints, LevelBlue and Tenable reduce the incentive for organizations to throttle scanning or limit coverage to only certain networks. That’s where environments tend to rot—out‑of‑scope systems, forgotten cloud resources, lab environments that never make it into asset inventories. Even so, unlimited scanning doesn’t magically fix operational bottlenecks. Someone still has to patch, validate, and communicate across IT and security. But it’s easier to fix what you can see, and visibility remains the part most organizations struggle with.

What is interesting is how this move swings back toward an older idea in security operations—bundled capability. A decade ago, many SIEM and MSSP providers offered “all in one” toolsets that eventually fractured into modular, separately priced products. LevelBlue seems to be drifting the other direction: recombining capabilities so clients don’t need parallel tools. It isn't strictly a reversal of industry direction, but it hints at a practical realization: complexity is winning, and clients want fewer moving parts.

For Tenable, the partnership increases its footprint inside managed service environments. For LevelBlue, it strengthens its position as a provider blending AI‑enabled SOC operations, threat intelligence, and human expertise with an increasingly integrated platform. Neither company uses hyperbolic language about reshaping the market, and that’s probably intentional. The value here is straightforward: no‑cost scanning that plugs directly into detection, response, and remediation workflows.

LevelBlue closes the announcement by underscoring its broader mission: reducing risk and building resilience so organizations can operate with confidence. It’s the same mission many providers claim, but the operational details—integrated scanning, correlated detections, automated workflows—matter more than the tagline. And in this case, the details are unusually accessible.

Security teams rarely get something for free. Here, they actually do.