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# Tenable Integration Setup

### Getting Started

Use this guide to connect Tenable to your BalkanID tenant. You will need an API key pair from Tenable and access to the Integrations section in BalkanID.

Once connected, BalkanID syncs your Tenable users, groups and roles, along with each user's group memberships and role assignments.

{% hint style="info" %}
This integration supports **Tenable Vulnerability Management** at cloud.tenable.com. Tenable Security Center, the self-hosted product, uses a different API and is not supported.
{% endhint %}

#### Requirements:

Before you begin, collect the following values from Tenable:

* **Access key**
* **Secret key**

### Configure Tenable within your BalkanID tenant

1. To find the **Access key** and **Secret key**, sign in to Tenable at cloud.tenable.com as a user with the Administrator role. Tenable recommends creating a dedicated user for each integration, because each account holds only one API key pair at a time and generating a new pair immediately invalidates the previous one.
2. In the upper-right corner, click the user profile icon. The **My Account** page appears.
3. In the left navigation, click **API Keys**. In the bottom-left corner, click **Generate**, then click **Continue**.
4. Under **ACCESS KEY** and **SECRET KEY**, your new keys appear. Copy both to a safe location — after you close the **My Account** page you cannot view them again.
5. In BalkanID, go to **Integrations** and click **Add integration**.

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6. Search for Tenable, select it, and click **Next**.

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7. Set the **Primary application owner**, and a **Description** and **Secondary application owner(s)** if you need them. Under **Select Extraction Type**, choose **Direct Configuration**, paste your **Access key** and **Secret key**, then click **Next.**

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8. Fill **Optional Configuration**, if required.

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9. Once you have filled in the information, click **Save**. Your integration is now configured and you will see the status of the integration displayed alongside other integrations on the Integrations page. When data is available, the integration Status column will read **Connected** and the integration Message will read **Data available**.

### Integration Scopes

Tenable API keys inherit the role of the user that generated them, so the role below is what governs access.

| Read Only Scopes                                                                                                                                            | Lifecycle Management Scopes |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------- |
| **Administrator \[64]** — reads users along with their group memberships and assigned roles, the list of user groups, and the access control role catalogue | N/A                         |

{% hint style="info" %}
A key generated by a user below the Administrator role does not fail — Tenable simply returns fewer details for each user, which leaves the synced data incomplete. If your tenant restricts API access by IP address, allow-list the BalkanID egress addresses as well.
{% endhint %}


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