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Security Update: Tanium’s Response to the Klue Breach that Allowed Data Exfiltration from Salesforce
Tanium's response to the Klue supply-chain breach that exposed Salesforce CRM data. Learn what happened, what information was involved, and how to stay safe.
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Improved Digital Employee Experiences, Expedited Investigations and the Fastest Tanium Ever: Announcing Our Q3 Products, Features, and Updates
Learn about the new features to Tanium Digital Employee Experience (DEX), a new module to XEM Core, and an upgraded platform that’s designed to enhance speeds for Tanium users.
Hands-on Hunting - Part 3 - Tech Talks #44-3
In this three-part Hands-on Hunting series Tanium veteran Paul Kelly walks you through how to detect, react, and recover from cyber incidents using Tanium Threat Response. Beginners to advanced will benefit from Paul's step-by-step tour through these features
Hands-on Hunting - Part 2 - Tech Talks #44-2
Discover the latest tips and tricks for hands-on hunting in part 2 of our Tech Talks series. Join us now!
How Tanium Can Help With the Log4j Vulnerability
Log4j is a popular open-source logging utility used by millions of Java applications. The underlying “improper input validation” flaw (CVE-2021-44228) has been dubbed “Log4Shell.”
Tanium Celebrates Being One of the 100 Best Companies to Work For
We’re proud to be named to FORTUNE's list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For,” a recognition determined by Great Place to Work Institute.
How Tanium Can Identify the SolarWinds Exploit
In December 2020, FireEye released a threat research alert identifying a global campaign to infiltrate public and private organizations through “trojanized updates'' of the SolarWinds IT monitoring and management software.
How Tanium Can Protect Your Organization Against the Azure OMI Vulnerability
Recently, Microsoft issued a security advisory against multiple vulnerabilities for Open Management Infrastructure (OMI). OMI affects Linux VM’s running the OMS Agent in Azure, as well as other Linux systems that have an older version of the software.
Three Common Misconceptions About EDR software and How Tanium Can Help
Learn how Tanium and EDR software work hand-in-hand to minimize cyber risk and make your organization safer, more secure and resilient.
Ransomware 101: What Is It and How Do I Prevent an Attack?
As ransomware attacks continue to rise, organizations need to understand their risk and how to prevent an attack. Check out this advice.
Manufacturer Secures More Than 50,000 Endpoints With Tanium for Speed and Agility
A global manufacturer turned to Tanium to help manage and secure its endpoints, many of which were previously invisible to the company’s central IT team.
Mitigating the Supply Chain Attack That Hit Kaseya and Downstream Organizations
Learn how Tanium can help find ransomware indicators associated with Kaseya VSA software attack.
Zemax Goes Cloud-First With Help From Tanium as a Service
Tanium gives Zemax visibility and rapid control of their endpoint devices to help identify vulnerabilities in real time and patch quickly.
How Enhanced Cyber Hygiene Can Help Your Organization Wake-Up from a PrintNightmare
Learn how Tanium can help you improve your cyber hygiene to stay ahead of critical vulnerabilities like PrintNightmare.
Stop Chasing Vulnerability Headlines
Vulnerability management is more than chasing headlines. You need to get back to the basics to protect yourself from what lies below the surface.
To Fight Insider Attacks, Move Beyond ‘Dead-Box Forensics’
Learn more about a new approach to fighting insider cyberattacks to help protect your systems, data and networks against malicious actions.
Q&A With Kevin Gray: Staying up to Date With IT Management and Security News on Endpoint
Kevin Gray, editor-in-chief of Tanium’s digital magazine, Endpoint, explains how business executives can get the latest IT management and security news.
Don’t Be a Cyberwar Victim. Become Digitally Resilient.
Check out these four steps that can help your organization build digital resilience and defend against today’s cyberwar.
Public, Private Sector Collaboration Is Key To Combating Cybersecurity Issues
Implementing a risk management approach to cybersecurity will save federal agencies time and money while protecting personal and government sensitive data.
For the U.S. Defense Dept., the Future of Data Management Is Zero Trust
Learn how Tanium can help federal agencies adopt zero trust security models with comprehensive visibility and control of their environments.
Q&A with Sanjay Joshi: Transforming Healthcare
Find out more about Tanium’s new healthcare and life sciences technology CIO, Sanjay Joshi and how the industry is changing.
Inside Tanium: Summer Internship Leads to Full-Time Position With Cloud Engineering
Software engineer Harika Kalidhindi explains how a summer internship turned into a full-time position on Tanium’s cloud engineering team.
Visibility and Control: Tackling the Cyber Threat Epidemic in K-12 Schools
The education sector has been a target for cybercriminals. Learn how vulnerability management tools can help schools stop threats.
Threat Response 3.3 Delivers Security From the Desktop to the Server
Tanium’s Threat Response 3.3 is now available. This release provides greater visibility and rapid response to attacks.
The Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack Emphasizes What Americans Want — Government to Prioritize Cybersecurity
The cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline emphasizes what new research suggests — Americans want the government to prioritize security.
Biden’s Executive Order Stresses Need for Federal Government to Make “Bold Changes” in Cybersecurity
Learn how Tanium can help federal agencies answer the call for bold change in the President’s executive order on cybersecurity.
Update New Dell PC Bugs Now to Avoid Potential Compromise
Learn how the Tanium platform can help you find and remediate the latest high-severity Dell vulnerabilities.
Inside Tanium: Employees Make an Impact with Impact
Employees explain how an innovative culture within their careers at Tanium has inspired them to bring an idea to life to help fight cybersecurity threats.
Q&A with Rob Jenks: Taking Tanium Growth and Partnerships to the Next Level
A new member of Tanium’s executive team shares how he’ll build strategic alliances with partners and focus on putting the customer first.
Supporting the Next Generation of Women in Cybersecurity
In honor of International Women’s Day, we're spotlighting a program with The Society of Women Engineers and Tanium that educates women on technology careers
7 Best Practices for Configuration Management
With many organizations shifted to a work-from-home (WFH) policy for employees, configuration management has never been more important.
10 Ways That Tanium Makes Performance Monitoring Better
Performance management is the practice of monitoring and managing the performance of computers across an organization to ensure that employees’ work is never compromised by software or hardware problems. Most performance management products collect performance data from software agents installed on laptops, desktops, servers and other network endpoints.
How One of the Largest U.S. School Districts Protects Its Data
Mitigating cyber-risks and understanding modern (and future) security strategies are fundamental skills for IT leaders. Guarding the virtual gates of an organization and running the cybersecurity program is key to ensuring business resilience and continuity in a fast-changing world.
Tanium Converge: Advancing Endpoint Security for Federal Agencies
The Tanium Converge 2020 conference brought together customers, thought leaders, and industry experts to discuss the growing need for better endpoint management in today’s challenging and unpredictable business environment. Certainly being ready for whatever comes next was top of mind for our customers in the U.S. federal government.
Dealing With Kimsuky: How to Protect Federal Endpoints and Networks From Advanced Persistent Threats
Federal remote workers rely on virtual desktop infrastructures like Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to gain access to and visibility of the agency network server. Protecting those endpoints from the growing number of potential cyber threats is a priority for IT teams — and is particularly important in light of a recent alert from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and U.S. Cyber Command Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF).
IT Hygiene: Why It’s Time for More Endpoint Visibility, Not More Tools
Chief information security officers could be forgiven for being somewhat distracted this year. The global financial and healthcare crisis forced most organizations to re-prioritize and throw everything at maintaining business operations.
Five Takeaways From Tanium Converge 2020
Tanium Converge 2020 wrapped up last week with over 3,092 attendees participating in 42 deep dive breakout sessions and 19 technical labs on IT management, security and compliance. Participants logged more than 17,000 hours of engagement (5.6 hrs. per attendee) during our three-day user conference.
The Future of the Edge: Day Three of Tanium Converge 2020
We’ve seen and heard from some incredible speakers over the past two days of Tanium Converge 2020, and we’ve covered a huge amount of ground. We learned why IT leaders shouldn’t have to put up with “good enough” visibility and control of endpoints, and how Tanium is helping through unprecedented innovation and cross-industry partnerships.
Intelligence at the Edge: Day One of Tanium Converge 2020
The world has changed in so many ways over the past 12 months. Today we’re living through a rapid adjustment to intensive digital disruption, mass remote work, cloud everywhere, zero trust and escalating cyber risk.
Bringing Tanium to the People: New UX Design Pioneers Ease-of-Use, Customization
At the beginning of the year, Tanium’s CEO, Orion Hindawi, laid down the challenge of creating a cohesive, highly efficient user experience that would propel Tanium to the next level. He said this was our Super Bowl.
How to Combat Growing Cyber Threats and Secure Federal Remote Work
As telework continues and cyber threats increase throughout the federal government, agencies are taking steps to modernize their security to support an expanded distributed workforce. The surge in Bring-Your-Own-Devices (BYOD) alongside agency-owned and government-managed assets operating outside the enterprise local area network perimeter has created the “perfect storm” for attackers with ransomware attacks in particular seeing a marked increase.
Making Connections and Building Community: Month of Giving
Since the inaugural launch of Tanium’s Month of Giving program three years ago, more than 3,500 hours have been dedicated to giving back to our communities. Partnering with non-profit organizations around the world, Month of Giving is an opportunity for Tanium team members to come together and donate their time to help others.
Tanium Announces Integration with the ServiceNow Service Graph Connector Program
As workforces become more distributed and endpoints move from employee desks and corporate networks to the kitchen table and home office WiFi, keeping an accurate endpoint inventory is more important than ever, but is even more challenging with legacy tools that typically provide stale data and do not function with remote endpoints.
Three Trends Driving the Demand for Unified Endpoint Security
The Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) market is changing faster than ever before. As Gartner discusses in its report, The Long-Term Evolution of Endpoints Will Reshape Enterprise Security: “Endpoints are becoming digital consumer experience enablers that are more tightly controlled and natively fortified against attacks. Security and risk management leaders must design long-term security and investment strategies that align with this technology trend.”
Long-Term WFH: How to Make it Secure and Sustainable
Initially, it was a band-aid over a bullet hole. Stephanie Aceves is a Director of Technical Account Management at Tanium, a unified endpoint management and security platform.
How to Prepare for Today’s New Security Landscape
It’s been really surprising, just the degree of inhumanity in some of these bad guys. Kris McConkey works for the leading professional services firm PwC, where he acts as the Cyber Threat Operations Lead Partner for their clients in the United Kingdom.
A Day of Volunteering With Team US West
#TaniumGivesBack is an employee led program, focused on offering ways for employees to give back in service to their communities. In September, our US West team joined forces to spend a day giving back to four organizations of their choice across three states: California, Washington and Arizona.
A First Look at the CONVERGE 2019 Breakout Sessions
An annual CONVERGE favorite, Breakout Sessions dive into all things Tanium with in-depth discussions, best practices and tips and tricks from industry peers and Tanium subject matter experts. With educational demos, case studies, customer stories and tutorials we remain committed to building a marketing-free agenda of breakout sessions for you.
Announcing Hybrid Mode for Integrity Monitor: Building a Foundation for the Future
Tanium Integrity Monitor hybrid mode. Today we’re excited to announce that Tanium Integrity Monitor offers extended compliance and reporting capabilities with a new hybrid mode.
Modernizing Security Operations Centers With Integrated Threat Detection and Response
In a recent Gartner article, ‘Gartner Top 7 Security and Risk Trends for 2019’, Gartner states, “organizations are now investing in tools that are more sensitive and are focusing on a balance between response and detection versus prevention. The rise in more sophisticated alerts and tools has led to an increased need to centralize and optimize operations, which means SOCs are now a business asset.”
Successfully Mixing Community and Business: Lori Senac’s Story
Lori Senac is a Director of Strategic Accounts for Tanium. In August 2019, Lori Senac was selected to join Michigan Council of Women’s Technology Advisory Board. This is her Tanium story.
Tanium Use Case: Prevent Execution of Unwanted Applications
Application control, through whitelisting or blacklisting, reduces endpoint attack surface and is important to a well-rounded security strategy. Tanium Protect empowers organizations to restrict application execution with lightweight, natively available security controls and provides near-real-time visibility of attempted violations.
The Right Support for State and Local Governments to Guard Against Cyberattacks
Recently, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) took the unusual step of publicly endorsing proposed federal legislation, in this case the State and Local Cybersecurity Government Act of 2019. That bill, which was introduced in June by a bipartisan team, would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to improve how federal, state and local governments can collaborate and share resources to stem the tide of cyberattacks.
Case Study: Building a Bridge to Digital Transformation
To one of the world’s leading luxury goods groups, home to some of the finest luxury brands, digital transformation is the foundation of their growth strategy for the coming years. With more than 25,000 employees across 36 countries and a global supply chain, standardizing and enforcing complex operations for all of its brands, while still maintaining brand identity, is no easy task.
The Seven Monkeys: Wormable Vulnerabilities vs. Tanium
Microsoft’s latest vulnerability disclosure release contains updates for 93 CVEs, highlighting seven as important/critical and now referred to as the ‘Seven Monkeys’. Four of these (CVE-2019-1181, CVE-2019-1182, CVE-2019-1222, CVE-2019-1226) are described as wormable.
Revealed! Our CONVERGE 2019 Technical Labs Agenda
Our much-anticipated agenda and registration for CONVERGE 2019 Technical Labs is now available on the official CONVERGE 2019 site. Whether just getting started, or ready to expand your skills and knowledge of Tanium, CONVERGE 2019 Technical Labs will show you how to fulfill your goals at speed and scale.
Welcome Thomas Stanley, Our New Chief Sales Officer
‘Today we’re very excited to announce Thomas Stanley as Tanium’s new Chief Sales Officer. Thomas will officially join us on September 9, and will oversee all sales, field operations, channel and alliances at Tanium, with responsibility for accelerating our continued growth across the U.S. and international markets.
Intel AMT Vulnerability: How Tanium Can Help
When Intel revealed a critical security advisory May 1 addressing a flaw in its remote management system affecting millions of chipsets, the Technical Account Management team at Tanium sprang into action to help our customers. Here, TAM director Chris Kachigian reveals what this vulnerability means to your business and how to use Tanium to quickly discover the issue.
The Three Stages of Security Hygiene: Measurement Share
Security hygiene means something different to everyone. Because of this, addressing security hygiene can be a daunting task.
What’s Next in Compliance and Security: Introducing Tanium Integrity Monitor
Today, we are announcing Tanium Integrity Monitor to extend our capabilities in this area. Our new offering follows on the release last quarter of Tanium Comply, which is designed to help our customers streamline the process of meeting regulatory requirements for security configuration and vulnerability scanning.
5 Ways to Make Your Day in IT Operations Brighter
Your week is anything but routine. Monday starts early with an SEV1 outage.
Driving the Automotive Industry Toward Better Security
The automotive industry. In just the past few years, the technology in our cars and trucks has improved considerably.
Who’s Sending My Email?
Domain Based Message Authentication. Earlier this year, as part of our company-wide effort to conform to the Center for Internet Security (CIS) 20 Critical Security Controls, Tanium implemented a more restrictive configuration using Domain Based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) for company emails. As expected, it significantly reduced the number of spam and phishing emails.
Collaboration is key to enhancing energy sector’s cybersecurity
National Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month. November is National Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, and there is no better time to highlight the importance of keeping one of our nation’s most critical infrastructures secure: the energy sector.
On the Hunt With Modern Cyber Hunters
Q&A with David Damato and Kris McConkey. Tanium Chief Security Officer David Damato and PwC UK Cyber Security Partner Kris McConkey have spent their careers on the front lines of the fight against cyber criminals within the networks of the world’s largest companies and institutions.
Q&A With Former FBI Agents Andre McGregor and Jason Truppi
Tanium recently welcomed two former FBI Cyber Special Agents to the company, Andre McGregor and Jason Truppi. Andre and Jason bring to Tanium decades of combined experience in incident response, criminal investigation and counterintelligence and our customers will gain from their unique perspectives from the front lines of the fight against cybercrime.
Tanium Ready to Help Federal Agencies Win the Cybersecurity Sprint
The 30-day Cybersecurity Sprint. As a result of the recent OPM hack that may have compromised the personal information of as many as 18 million retired and current Federal employees, Tony Scott, United States Chief Information Officer, launched a mandatory 30-day Cybersecurity Sprint that requires Federal agencies to take several steps to help better protect Federal information and assets and increase the resilience of U.S. Federal networks.
Rethinking the Investigation Phase of the Endpoint Security Lifecycle: A Closer Look at Tanium Trace
A frequently-cited metric when examining the current state of incident detection and response is “dwell time.” Research consistently highlights a significant gap — often measured in months — between the time at which a compromise occurs and when the victim ultimately detects the intrusion.
Introducing Tanium Trace: Changing the Game for Incident Response
For more than a decade, I’ve focused on a combination of designing secure networks, testing security controls and investigating complex breaches. In each of these roles, I struggled to find tools that provided the visibility and control of all endpoints required to better prevent, detect and resolve security incidents.
Tanium Takes On Public Sector With New DC-Area Office
Smaller budgets, fewer resources. Government agencies are under more pressure than ever to do more with less — smaller budgets, fewer resources.
A Turning Point for U.S. Retailers
It takes six months for advanced persistent threats to be detected. A recent study from the Ponemon Institute revealed retailers take more than six months on average — 197 days to be exact — to detect an advanced persistent threat (APT) in their network.
A Prescription for Change
Healthcare cybercrime is on the rise. Cybersecurity infrastructure within the nation’s leading healthcare companies has not kept pace with the rapid proliferation of electronic health records.
Information Sharing: We’re Only As Strong as Each Other
Formation of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center. Today’s White House Summit on Cybersecurity is the climax of a momentous eight-day span during which we witnessed the largest ever cyber attack on a healthcare company and the creation of a new government agency.
The State of Cybersecurity
State of the Union combats cyberattacks. If the major security breaches of last year didn’t provide a rude awakening, then the last two weeks should have at least made it clear that our government has prioritized cyber security and is taking steps to protect its citizens.
The New Model for Cybersecurity: Speed Matters
Orion Hindawi security approaches. “The problem with the attacks we are seeing these days is that they are starting and ending so quickly that knowing what you looked like even an hour ago is not helpful.” — Orion Hindawi
Tanium Adds Soltra to Its Threat Intelligence Ecosystem to Turn Tables on Cyber Attackers
The Uncomfortable Truth of Cyber Attacks. As the world looks to make the Internet its platform for finance, the stakes in the cybersecurity landscape have never been higher.