Tenable Holdings, Inc. has announced the launch of the CyberAgents Exchange, an open-source AI exchange specifically designed to facilitate industry collaboration and enhance collective cyber defence. Powered by Tenable, this platform is currently the only one of its kind to focus solely on cybersecurity-specific AI agents, skills, MCP servers, and multi-agent playbooks.
As the reliance on AI grows for scaling security operations, many security teams struggle by developing AI agents in isolation, leading to repeated efforts and inefficiencies. Existing AI exchanges often do not cater solely to cybersecurity needs, which can result in navigating irrelevant cases or being restricted by vendor lock-in. The CyberAgents Exchange aims to resolve these issues by offering a dedicated platform to enhance coordinated development efforts and share resources that bolster defence against AI-generated threats.
Transparency and trust at its core
The CyberAgents Exchange provides users with an open and free-to-use platform where code-level visibility is a fundamental feature. It allows participants to see who created each AI component and when it was established, as well as its peer-supported status. This transparency enhances the ability of users to deploy trusted AI components tailored to their organisational needs, fostering verifiable expertise among practitioners and building a catalogue of respected AI resources.
Highlighting the industry's dedication to open-source AI defence, SentinelOne and Recorded Future have teamed up as founding members of the CyberAgents Exchange. These organisations are set to contribute their knowledge in autonomous security operations and threat intelligence, assisting in establishing the Exchange as a non-partisan ecosystem. Contributions from these members include AI agents, integration frameworks, and playbooks to strengthen the community's defence against rapidly evolving threats.
Building the future of cyber defence
Participants will have the opportunity to develop open-source security agents, skill files, or MCP servers
To celebrate the launch, Tenable is organising “SWARM: The Cybersecurity Agentic AI Build Event,” a multi-day affair at Black Hat USA 2026, supported by AWS and Anthropic. Participants will have the opportunity to develop open-source security agents, skill files, or MCP servers. The event concludes with the announcement of winners on August 6, 2026, featuring over 50 available AI components.
Vlad Korsunsky, Chief Technology Officer at Tenable, emphasised the collective aspect of security, stating, "With the CyberAgents Exchange, we're creating a collaborative 'town square' where cybersecurity practitioners can build, test, improve and share the best in agentic defence." This initiative is designed to help security teams scale their capabilities and stay ahead of evolving threats.
Empowering global security teams
Braden Preston, vice president of product management at SentinelOne, expressed the need for a unified approach, noting, "We're empowering security teams globally to innovate faster, defend smarter and outpace modern adversaries together." The open-source community's cornerstone is ensuring that AI agents are reliable and traceable, as stated by Jamie Zajac, Chief Product Officer at Recorded Future, reinforcing efforts towards building a dependable autonomous defence mechanism.
The Tenable CyberAgents Exchange is a truly open-source community, offering a no-cost environment for listing and utilising agents to enhance the cybersecurity industry's collective capabilities.
Tenable® Holdings, Inc., the exposure management company, launches the CyberAgents Exchange, a new open-source AI exchange created to foster industry collaboration and improve collective cyber defence. The CyberAgents Exchange, powered by Tenable, is the only purpose-built, cybersecurity-native registry for AI agents, skills, MCP servers and multi-agent playbooks in the current market.
Security teams are increasingly turning to AI to scale security operations and manage risk overload, but end up building AI agents in isolation, repeatedly reinventing the wheel. Existing AI exchanges are either general-purpose or vendor-gated, forcing security teams to wade through irrelevant use cases, waste time on duplicate design and build efforts, or accept restrictive vendor lock-in. To improve the cybersecurity industry’s collective defence and outpace AI-generated threats, defenders need a unified, cyber-specific hub to accelerate development and share collective agentic tooling.
Peer-supported AI components
The CyberAgents Exchange eliminates these development silos and empowers industry collaboration with a truly open, free-to-use exchange.
Built for trust and transparency, the Exchange provides code-level visibility into who built each AI component, when it was created and its peer-supported status. This transparency enables members to deploy AI components tailored to their specific organisational needs confidently. Additionally, the Exchange is a career asset for practitioners to build verifiable expertise in an emerging discipline and develop a catalog of peer-supported AI components.
Autonomous security operations
"The CyberAgents Exchange fills a major and pressing industry need, especially as cybersecurity remains a growing issue and AI-enabled attacks rise," said Seth Fogie, Director of Security for Baptist Memorial Health Care. "Its core philosophy of working together is what made the threat intelligence community so invaluable. My team has benefited greatly from the Exchange, and we look forward to contributing and collaborating with the wider community."
Underscoring the industry’s commitment to collaborative, open-source AI defence, industry pioneers SentinelOne and Recorded Future have joined the initiative as founding members of the CyberAgents Exchange. By contributing their deep expertise in autonomous security operations and threat intelligence, these industry pioneers will help anchor the Exchange as a truly unified, vendor-agnostic ecosystem. As founding members, both organisations will actively contribute secure AI agents, integration frameworks and playbooks to accelerate the community's defense capabilities against rapidly evolving AI-driven threats.
Open-source security agents
In conjunction with the launch, Tenable is hosting “SWARM: The Cybersecurity Agentic AI Build Event,” a hands-on, multi-day event at Black Hat USA 2026 sponsored by AWS and presented with support from Anthropic. At the event, security practitioners will build open-source security agents, skill files or MCP servers. Winners will be announced on Thursday, August 6, 2026.
More than 50 AI components, released under open-source licenses, are available, including:
- Navi (Agent): A command-line tool that leverages the Tenable One Vulnerability Management APIs to automate common vulnerability management and cyber exposure workflows.
- SentinelOne Purple AI (MCP Server): Allows users to access SentinelOne services with any MCP client.
- Recorded Future MITRE APT Attack Path Analysis (Skill): Pulls an organisation’s Recorded Future threat map, maps an APT group's MITRE ATT&CK techniques and cross-references against live Tenable findings to identify which attack path nodes are actively exploitable.
- SOC-Hunter (Skill): Leveraged daily by Tenable’s internal security operations team, SOC-Hunter provides proactive, hypothesis-driven threat hunting using the LOCK pattern across SIEM, EDR, VM, CSPM, CASB and code search.
- The Hounds Pack (Playbook): A skill-packaged playbook for The Hounds — 18 exposure-management specialists that hunt, tag and calibrate risk.
Outpace modern adversaries
“Security is a team sport. We’ve addressed a gaping hole in the ecosystem of AI Agents, built for defenders, by defenders. With the CyberAgents Exchange, we’re creating a collaborative 'town square' where cybersecurity practitioners can build, test, improve and share the best in agentic defence,” said Vlad Korsunsky, Chief Technology Officer, Tenable. “With our deep roots in the open source community and our global ecosystem of customers and partners, Tenable is uniquely positioned to steward this collaborative effort to help scale security teams' capabilities and outpace evolving threats.”
"To truly scale defences against autonomous, AI-driven threats, the security community must move past isolated development and vendor-locked silos," said Braden Preston, vice president of product management, SentinelOne. "As a founding member of the CyberAgents Exchange, SentinelOne is proud to champion a transparent, open-source foundation for agentic security. By sharing trusted, autonomous components and collaborative playbooks, we are empowering security teams globally to innovate faster, defend smarter and outpace modern adversaries together."
Open-source community
"Joining the CyberAgents Exchange as a founding member lets us bring world-class threat intelligence directly into the open-source frameworks security teams are building today," said Jamie Zajac, Chief Product Officer at Recorded Future. "But the promise of AI agents in security depends entirely on whether they can be trusted. Intelligence doesn't just make agents smarter. It makes them traceable, auditable and repeatable. That's the foundation the community needs to build autonomous defence that's not only fast, but reliable."
The Tenable CyberAgents Exchange is a free, open-source community with no fees for listing or using agents.
