What type of component cannot be added to a Tenable dashboard?

In Tenable Security Center, the components available for integration into a dashboard typically include reports, widgets, and alerts, each serving distinct purposes in visualizing and managing security data. Scans, however, cannot be added directly to a dashboard.

The primary reason for this is that scans are operational tasks that actively assess environments for vulnerabilities, while dashboards focus on presenting data and insights generated from those assessments. Dashboards are designed to provide an at-a-glance view of the security posture through visualizations and summaries, such as trends from scanned data, statuses from alerts, and insights from reports. Therefore, while you can visualize and report on results generated from scans, the scans themselves are not designed to be displayed as individual components on a dashboard.

Understanding this distinction reinforces how each component within Tenable Security Center is intended to function, reinforcing the dashboard's role in aggregating and displaying critical security-related information rather than being a control mechanism for executing scans.