Strengthening Cybersecurity Defenses

How Tanium Shines a Light on IT Environments

ProNet Designs helps customers manage their IT inventory with Tanium’s asset and discovery tools, which provides a comprehensive inventory of assets...

Inside Tanium: From Tanium’s First Intern To a Career Solving Customers’ IT and Security Challenges

Learn how Zach Nandapurkar solves IT and security challenges for customers as a technical account manager in this employee spotlight.

You Can't Beat Tomorrow's Threats With Yesterday's Mindset

Learn how to implement a new set of processes and procedures to cybersecurity and regulatory compliance to improve digital transformation.

Vulnerability and Configuration Management: Unlocking Value for IT Operations

Learn about the cyber risks of remote work and why vulnerability and configuration management tools are critical.

Dental Services Provider Secures 30,000 Endpoints with Tanium

Learn how Tanium helped a dental services provider gain visibility and improve performance monitoring of its 30,000 endpoints.

Three Endpoint Challenges to the New Hybrid Workplace — and How to Overcome Them

Learn why a holistic approach to IT asset management, combined with detailed product information, is critical in the new hybrid workplace.

Asset Discovery and Inventory: The Foundation for Visibility and Device Management

The best approach to endpoint security begins with comprehensive and continuous asset discovery and inventory.

Why Good Cyber Hygiene – Beginning at the Endpoint – is Vital to U.S. Cybersecurity

Federal agencies can close vulnerability gaps and improve their cyber hygiene by focusing first on endpoint devices.

How Real-Time Incident Response Resolves the Inevitable Breach

Learn how Tanium can improve your organization's cyber incident response in today’s remote work environment.

How Service Desks Can Improve Employee Experience With Clicks, Not Code

With more employees working remotely, organizations need to transform how they support employees through their IT service desk.

Managing the Risks of the Coming Hybrid Workplace Revolution

Managing the risks of the emerging hybrid workplace is a challenge for many organizations but it’s not impossible with the right combination of...

How endpointX is Helping Global Customers as the First Accredited Tanium Partner

Make Your Organization Even Safer with Tanium Threat Response 3.4

Learn how the new features in Tanium Threat Response can help security teams protect their organizations and better respond to cyber threats.

Federal Cybersecurity: Too Many Tools Spoil the Broth

Check out the latest survey of federal cybersecurity managers that revealed significant challenges with tool sprawl.

Connecting the Data with Tanium and Cribl LogStream

With Tanium Connect and Cribl LogStream you can power virtually any IT or security analytics tool with Tanium endpoint data.

What Are Today’s Biggest IT and Cybersecurity Challenges?

Here are 10 takeaways from our new survey of technology leaders and how you can overcome today's cybersecurity challenges with cyber hygiene.

Maximizing Help Desk ROI with a Modern Unified ITSM Platform

Learn how standardizing your organization’s help desk tools with a modern unified ITSM platform can save money and improve results.

Inside Tanium: An Employee Dedicated to Helping Customers Get More Value With Tanium

Learn more about Tanium’s Manager of Technical Documentation, Sajida DiAugustine, and how her work helps customers get more value with Tanium.

Do You Have Too Many Cybersecurity Tools, Too Little Visibility?

It’s not how many cybersecurity tools you have — it's the ability to provide real-time and accurate data on your endpoint devices.

Elementary, My Dear Watson: Sherlock Holmes’ Cybercrime Investigation

Learn how Tanium gives cybersecurity investigators great tools for detection, investigating, containing, and remediating cybercrimes.

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.

Q&A with Chris Cruz: Tackling Today’s Cybersecurity Threats in SLED

Find out more about Tanium’s new SLED CIO, Chris Cruz and how SLED agencies can combat cybersecurity.

Transform Your CMDB With Real-Time Data

Learn how the configuration management database (CMDB) feature within IT Service Center combines the best of Tanium and Salesforce to manage endpoint...

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...

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.

Measuring Risk Using a Supply Chain Approach

Consider a supply chain approach when measuring risk as your team works toward achieving your company’s strategic data privacy goals.

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.

Learn How to Make the NDAA 889 Compliance Deadline

Learn how Tanium can help you meet the NDAA 889 compliance deadline that U.S. government agencies, suppliers and contractors face.

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.

Professional Services Firm Manages Newly Acquired Endpoints With Tanium

Find out how a global consulting firm benefits from Tanium’s cloud-based platform for endpoint management and security after several acquisitions.

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.

Measuring What Matters: Aligning Risk Measurement With Corporate Goals and Objectives

Data and risk management are top of mind for many organizations. Here are some best practices for measuring risk for your leaders.

Strengthening Data Privacy, Compliance and Incident Response for SLED

Learn how to reassess and optimize your data privacy practices for SLED organizations and prepare for the American Rescue Plan funds.

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...

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.

Why SLED Organizations Need Asset Visibility and IT Tool Optimization for Digital Transformation

Before you can optimize IT investments, SLED organizations need asset visibility into what tools they already have.

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...

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.

What Does the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Mean for My Business?

Learn more about the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and how Tanium can help your organization with compliance.

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.

How to Build IT Resilience in 2021: Topics and Tactics

Learn some of the risks and opportunities around IT resilience and best practices for building resilient IT systems to address data risk and privacy.

World Password Day: Tanium Experts Bust Common Password Myths

On World Password Day, we break down some of the myths and truths about password security and what good password policy looks like.

Five Reasons to Get Your New Tanium Certification

Learn how a Tanium certification allows you to validate your expertise, skills and abilities with Tanium solutions.

Accelerating Digital Transformation With the American Rescue Plan

To maximize the value of the American Rescue Plan funds, state and local governments and education organizations should start with IT asset discovery.

Is Your Agency Prepared For Software End of Life?

Learn how software management tools can protect your organization from cyberattacks when software reaches end of life.

Zero-Days, Breaches and the Supply Chain: The Five Biggest Cyberattack Stories in the Headlines

Check out the latest cybersecurity news and how to be ready for whatever comes next with vulnerability management tools.

Do Agencies Need Next Generation Software, Or Are They Just Chasing Diminishing Returns?

IT teams should adopt a holistic risk management approach that uses accurate, real-time data to reduce risk and improve security with baseline...

Why Real-Time Data Is Essential for IT Help Desk Effectiveness

Learn how modern IT help desk tools can give you real-time access to data to help discover what’s happening on your company’s endpoints.

Time to Patch: The Clock’s Ticking on Four More Microsoft Exchange Vulnerabilities

Learn how Tanium can help you find and patch affected servers with the latest Microsoft Exchange Vulnerabilities.

How Tanium Can Solve Your Organization’s Top IT Operations Challenges

Learn how to solve your organization’s top IT operations challenges with Tanium Endpoint Management tools.

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...

The New Era for the Help Desk

Learn how Tanium and Salesforce are transforming the help desk to address IT software management and security for the work-from-anywhere world.

Lateral Movement: How Cybercriminals Move Across Your Network and How to Stop Them

Learn how cybercriminals gain access, then make lateral movements across your company network and the best practices to prevent this.

Lumentum’s Ralph Loura Sees Pandemic as Rare Opportunity to Reimagine the Digital Future

CIO shares concerns about security once Lumentum’s remote workforce returns to the offices and his digital transformation vision beyond the...

How VITAS Healthcare’s Endpoint Management System Paid for Itself in Six Months

Largest hospice care provider in the U.S. turns to Tanium to dramatically streamline software updating and patching processes while uniting IT and...

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.

The Incoming Threat Part 3: Why Healthcare Providers Need a Unified Platform to Fight Ransomware Attacks

This three-part series on ransomware will help healthcare providers understand the tools they need to improve their security and IT hygiene.

How GenesisCare Secured 16,000 Endpoints on Three Continents

A Cybersecurity Journey From the Army National Guard to Tanium

A Tanium employees shares his story and the lessons learned going from the Army National Guard to working at Tanium. 

How Manufacturer Lumentum Stayed Secure, Agile and Effective During the Pandemic

Lumentum shifted to a work-from-home policy and kept devices and data safe with Tanium's endpoint management and security platform.

5 Ways Tanium Impact Helps Businesses Guard Against Lateral Movements in Cyberattacks

Tanium Impact provides visualizations and risk analysis to act effectively, whether proactively engaging in risk management or responding to threats.

Shutting the Door on the Microsoft Exchange Server Attacks With Tanium

With cybersecurity attacks increasing, businesses need to be ready for whatever comes next. Learn how proactive prevention and rapid response with...

Tanium and Salesforce Reimagine the Employee Experience

Tanium’s category-defining endpoint management and security platform brings breakthrough capabilities for delivering IT services in the...

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...

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.

7 Best Practices for Endpoint Performance Monitoring

With so much at risk, endpoint performance monitoring is critical for any organization interested in making the most of its people and technology.

Q&A with Tanium’s Todd Palmer, One of CRN’s Most Influential Channel Chiefs of 2021

Tanium's head of partner sales explains how the company is investing in its channel partners to help more organizations manage and secure endpoints.

Supply Chain Security Is Tough: So What Should Good Look Like?

In light of the SolarWinds attack, there needs to be better assurance on cyber risk. Here are some considerations for addressing supply chain...

Building the Future of Work

COVID-19 has changed the future of work. Tanium embraces the remote workforce model and working to make it better for employees, customers and...

7 Ways to Improve Your Vulnerability and Configuration Management Program

IT modernization is the unstoppable force driving innovation and growth for global organizations. Unfortunately, it’s also introducing endpoint...

Strengthening Federal Technology Risk Management

The transition to remote working has expanded agency threat surfaces — and it’s not just cybersecurity risk that agency IT teams have to deal...

It’s 2021. Is It Time to Revisit Your Software Management Practices?

Distributing and patching software are two of the most important tasks assigned to an organization’s IT team. Many tools are designed to handle...

How to Strengthen Federal Endpoints and Networks With Preventative Security

Agencies have long relied on reactive security (compensating security controls) vs. preventive security (baseline security controls) to protect their...

Are You Prepared for a Security Incident? Here Are 6 Steps to Help You Be Ready

Responding to a cybersecurity incident, whether it’s a data breach, a ransomware event, or one of several types of cyberattacks, such as malware,...

How Agencies Can Improve FITARA Cyber Scores With Real-Time Data

The scores from the latest Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) are out. Good news: it showed overall improvements for all...

IT Hygiene Begins With Asset Discovery and Inventory

For people, hygiene is a series of practices performed to preserve health and prevent the spread of disease. But we’ve humanized computers to the...

Patch Management: Challenges and Solutions for Implementing an Effective Strategy

Patch management is not a new practice. But many organizations still struggle to perform it effectively.

The Incoming Threat Part 2: How Healthcare Providers Can Defend Themselves Against Ransomware

Ransomware is a complex, multistage attack. There is no silver bullet that will defend healthcare providers.

7 Ways to Minimize Data Risk and Enhance Privacy Compliance

Change is the new reality for today’s information and governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) leaders. Rapidly evolving compliance...

Tanium Provides Endpoint Visibility and Intelligence for Google’s BeyondCorp Enterprise

Once upon a time, network security was about letting the good guys in and keeping the bad guys out. But we’re living in a different world now.

7 Ways Tanium Can Protect Your Organization From Evolving Cyberthreats and Data Breaches

Fifteen years ago, most organizations were worried about very formulaic cyberattacks designed to hit every enterprise or every computer out there....

Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) and Zero Trust Are the Building Blocks of Cybersecurity

As the distributed workforce grows, federal agencies face a broader threat landscape. Bad actors are gaining access to more user credentials than ever...

10 Ways Tanium Makes Configuration Management Better

Configuration management means setting up employee computers to comply with IT policies while ensuring that employees have access to applications and...

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...

9 Ways Tanium Gives You Control of Your Endpoint Software Environment

Endpoint Management lets IT teams manage any endpoint environment from a single control point. But organizations often struggle to keep the software...

10 Ways Tanium Improves Patch Management

You know the right way to perform patch management. But your legacy tools prevent you from doing so.

How ‘Technology Archeology’ Can Prepare You for Digital Transformation

Most organizations have IT hardware and software lurking in their estate that no one knows about. For most everyday IT operations, that’s perfectly...

9 Ways Tanium Makes Asset Discovery and Inventory Faster, Simpler, Easier and…Better

Endpoint Management lets IT teams manage an organization’s endpoint devices — including laptops, tablets, PCs, servers, and “bring your own...

10 Ways Tanium Improves Data Risk and Privacy

Global organizations spent an average of more than $255 million each on compliance with data protection regulations in 2019. That’s a powerful...

9 Ways Tanium Improves Vulnerability and Configuration Management

Today’s enterprises are in a bind. On the one hand, they must accelerate the pace of digital transformation to survive and thrive at a time of...

Back to Basics: Five Ways to Improve Your Corporate Data Protection Practices

Complexity is the enemy of data protection. And there’s plenty of it in the modern enterprise IT environment.

Experts Share Advice on Getting Started With Zero Trust for Remote Infrastructures

During the Cyber Security Experts Panel at CDM Central last month, I joined government experts from the U.S. Small Business Administration and...

The Incoming Threat: Why Healthcare Organizations Must Defend Against Ransomware

Healthcare providers — it’s time to take ransomware seriously. Daily attacks are increasing.

Cybersecurity: Global Threats Require a Global Response

Cyberattacks mounted by nations and nation-states against private companies — and each other — are nothing new. But their boldness, frequency, and...

How a Federal Telework Bill Can Help Modernize and Secure Remote Work

As federal telework continues, agencies are looking to allocate funds and modernize remote environments for the future. The Pandemic Federal Telework...

Strategies for Optimizing Remote Work in 2021

In 2020, the federal sector’s priority was business continuity, when the pandemic forced a new world of remote work. But now that the dust has...

Zerologon Needs More Than a Patch: How Federal IT Teams can Remediate This Vulnerability

The Zerologon vulnerability that spurred a rare emergency order by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) continues to pose a...

The End of Adobe Flash: How to Manage and Protect Your Organization

A deadline three years in the making is coming up on December 31, 2020. That’s when Adobe will end its support of Flash.

Ready for What’s Next? Tanium Experts Share Technology Predictions for 2021

When the pandemic hit and the world stayed home, ensuring business continuity was everyone’s priority. Business executives and IT leaders alike had...

Securing Federal Telework With Zero Trust

The network perimeter is dissolving. As a result of the pandemic, widespread telework is likely here to stay.

Accenture, Google, and Tanium: Working Together to Address Enterprise Security Risks

The world of IT security has changed dramatically in the past year, but which changes really matter, and how should companies respond in order to keep...

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...

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...

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...

San Joaquin County: Technology Leader in Government

Over the years, Tanium has earned an enviable reputation for driving critical success at organizations running some of the world’s largest and most...

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...

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...

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...

Leading at the Edge: Day Two at Converge 2020

This year has been awash with IT stories of a similar hue: Remote workers targeted by escalating cyberattacks, virtual private networks (VPNs)...

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...

Our Partnership with Salesforce.com and the Future of IT Service Management

What We’ve Learned and What’s Next. Five months ago, we announced a significant partnership with Salesforce to reimagine IT service management.

Converge 2020 Is Here!

We’re about ready to kick off our annual user conference Converge, happening this week from Monday, November 16 to Wednesday, November 18. At...

“Increased and Imminent Threat” to Healthcare Organizations Brings Endpoint Security Into Spotlight

A recent joint advisory from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the...

Endpoint Identity: The New Center of Gravity in a Zero Trust World

We live in complicated times. Where once there was a clear binary model for network security — focused on letting the good guys in and keeping the...

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...

Building a Zero Trust Future: Key Considerations for Managing Networks, Users and Endpoints

It all began back in 2009 with a sophisticated nation-state attack on Google servers. This spurred the first significant, sustained effort to build...

Get Hands-On with Tanium! New 14-Day Free Trial

For the better part of the last two decades, I’ve been leading solutions engineering teams, working closely with sales, development, and most...

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...

Be Coordinated. Be Coherent. Be Fast and Have No Regrets.

Businesses are being forced to innovate, reinvent themselves and transform the way they operate in order to improve resilience, become more efficient...

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...

Leveraging Zero Trust to Secure Remote Work Infrastructures

For federal agencies, delivering citizen services efficiently, rapidly and securely is the top priority. Today, the challenge is to continue to...

How to Defend Against Social Engineering During Widespread Remote Work

To make your organization more secure, the answer is, was and always will be in people. Jenny Radcliffe is the Founder and Director of Human-Centered...

Ripping Off the Endpoint Protection Bandaid

Bandaid solutions prevent business resilience. When an endpoint is compromised, time is of the essence and there are key questions that have to be...

Advancing Federal Technology Risk Management in the Distributed Workforce

Today’s networks – and the devices connecting to them – are more distributed, more diverse and more difficult to manage than ever before. This...

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...

Securing Remote Work and Virtual Learning Environments: How CARES Act Helps

As state and local governments are fine-tuning their distributed workforce for long-term success and higher education institutions are implementing...

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...

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...

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...

How Financial Services Can Recover IT Hygiene Post-Pandemic

This kind of event happening is once in a lifetime. Scott Lowe is the Managing Director and Founder of EndpointX, a unified endpoint management and...

The Next Stage of the Tanium Journey – and Mine.

Since launching its flagship product in 2012, Tanium has been one of the fastest growing technology start-ups in the security and IT operations...

How One Healthcare Provider Ensured a Seamless WFH Transition

Failure was not an option. Mitch Teichman is Senior Manager of Client Engineering at VITAS Healthcare, a provider of hospice care for patients at the...

Managing IT Risk in Financial Services: Why Visibility Matters in Times of Crisis

At the start of the year financial services (FSI) IT leaders had plenty to keep them busy. With post-financial crisis regulatory frameworks finally...

Using Risk Prioritization to Strengthen Distributed Workforce Security

The basics of telework are in place for agencies – IT teams are prioritizing a careful assessment of cyber risks, current protections and what is...

Why Some Succeeded – and Some Struggled – During the Overnight Switch to WFH

People need to be adaptable to this new environment. Charles Ross is Chief Customer Officer at Tanium, a unified endpoint management and security...

How to Restore Defenses to Newly Remote Workforces

Operating without security is not an option. Robin Vann is Chief Solution Officer and CTO at Reliance acsn, an end-to-end cybersecurity firm based in...

Perspectives from the Tanium Federal User Group: Managing Risk in an Increasingly Complex World

A couple of weeks ago, we held our Federal Virtual User Group where we heard from Civilian and Department of Defense agencies on how they are...

Enterprise-class Configuration Management: Introducing Tanium Enforce

When policy management tools like Active Directory Group Policy were created over 20 years ago, the primary endpoint computing device was something...

How Organization’s Must Rethink Security: A Hacker’s Perspective

We simply need to make our position unassailable. Alissa Knight is a recovering hacker, serial entrepreneur, author and thought leader.

Our Partnership with Google Cloud: Transforming Threat Hunting and Zero Trust for the Distributed IT Era

The year 2020 has seen global disruption on a massive scale across nearly every facet of life and business. For IT and Security teams, the challenge...

Tanium for Managed Service Providers: Gain Visibility and Control While Reducing Cost and Delivering on SLAs

COVID-19 is upending long-established norms and ushering in a new era of flexible working: the work-from-anywhere era. This offers Managed Service...

Preparing Department of Defense (DoD) Contractors for CMMC Compliance

The DoD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is slated to roll out in the fall of 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic is not delaying...

Modernize IT Systems, Strengthen Cybersecurity, Improve FITARA Cyber Scores

The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) was established to diminish waste and duplication in federal IT acquisition....

The Transformation of the CISO

In this blog, Chris Hodson, Global CISO at Tanium sat down with Geoff Fisher, Cybersecurity and Incident Response Executive at EY, to discuss the role...

My Semester as a Product Management Intern at Tanium

Roshni joined us in the summer of 2019 as an engineering intern. Following her passion, she pursued a product management internship. This is her...

IT is Not a Cost Center: How We Can Meet New Needs and Help Reduce Costs

State and local governments are adapting to a long-term distributed workforce – and education institutions are preparing for potential remote...

Tanium Named as Honoree for 2020 Cybersecurity Impact Awards

We are honored to announce that Tanium was selected as a 2020 Cybersecurity Impact Award honoree in the “Federal Headquarters” category. The...

The Disruptive IT Revolution – And Its Effect on CISOs

In this candid interview, Chris Hodson, CISO at Tanium, caught up with Anthony Belfiore, CSO at Aon and member of Tanium’s Board of Directors, to...

Securing Federal Remote Infrastructures in a Distributed Workforce

With the COVID-19 pandemic, for the first time, the majority of the federal workforce is decentralized. In March, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...

Salesforce and Tanium Announce Partnership to Reimagine Employee Service Management

New Salesforce Partnership and Investment in Tanium Reimagines Employee Service Management in an Increasingly Remote-Working World. We are excited to...

CMMC is Coming – Do You Know If You Are Ready?

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) model is expected to go into effect in the fall of 2020 – and,...

A New Approach to Managing and Securing Operational Environments

Federal agencies have transformed the way they operate in response to the COVID-19 pandemic – but the significant shift has created challenges for...

Keeping IT Ops and Security Teams Close Despite Physical Distance

Efficient and effective collaboration across IT operations and cybersecurity teams remains an ever-present challenge for technology leaders. The silos...

Tanium’s Partner Advantage Program Goes Live

This is an exciting time to be a Tanium partner. Following our announcement at Tanium CONVERGE, we are pleased to share that the Tanium Partner...

The Evolution of Business as Usual

We’ve seen 2 years worth of tech adoption in 2 weeks. Why didn’t we realise we could work like this before?

Managing Cyber Risk in an Evolving Federal Environment

While the threat of data breaches and phishing are not new, agencies are facing growing risk as bad actors focus on taking advantage of inconsistent...

The Experts - A Tanium Original Series

Tanium is excited to announce “The Experts,” a Tanium Original Series for IT operations and security leaders. “The Experts” brings together...

Tanium Further Strengthens Zero Trust Capabilities with Cloudflare Partnership

Starting today, Cloudflare, which increases the security and performance of web sites and services of global organizations, and Tanium are partnering...

A Great Place to Work: Why Values Make the Difference at Tanium

Tanium is a company on a mission: to revolutionise endpoint management and security for our global customers. The ground-breaking technology platform...

How Tanium and the MITRE ATT&CK Framework Empower Federal Decision Makers to Manage and Prioritize Risk in Today’s Complex Environments

The origin of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework. The ever-increasing volume of cyberattacks can be overwhelming for those responsible for keeping their...

Planning for a New Normal: This Is Just the Beginning

Life moves pretty fast at Tanium. When I joined at the end of 2019 it was already a hugely exciting time for the company.

Preparing Higher Education Research Institutions for CMMC Assessments

Organizations that handle controlled unclassified information (CUI) and controlled sensitive information (CSI) – including many higher education...

From Certification to Continuous Cybersecurity Capabilities – How Tanium Helps Companies Achieve CMMC

As networks become more complex, organizations need to evaluate their cybersecurity policies, controls and practices to ensure optimal security across...

Announcing Tanium Discover 3.2: More Visibility, More Control

Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of Tanium Discover version 3.2, which includes the ability to scan into networks with no...

Why Tanium Was Built for the Future of IT

Having been in the industry for the past 30 years, I have seen and continue to see technological advancement that rivals anything that a reasonable...

With Distributed Workforce Transformation in Overdrive, Agencies Focus on Access and Security

Public and private sector organizations alike are working to scale teleworking capabilities to accommodate a record number of remote employees....

Public Sector Notice: Tanium Is Available to the Ontario Public Sector

We are very pleased to announce that Tanium has been made available to the Ontario Public Sector (OPS) on the IT Security Products and Service Vendor...

TAMs Share Their Tips on Productivity in a Distributed Workforce

Since the novel Coronavirus pandemic, many have found themselves working from home. Things might get back to normal, or they may change forever as a...

Critical IT Visibility Gaps Persist Despite Tens of Millions Spent on Compliance

Organizations have spent an average of $70.3 million each to comply with data privacy regulations in the past 12 months alone. Despite this stepped-up...

Welcoming the Future of Work

The future of work is being defined right now by the global implications and personal experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This provides a...

Unified Endpoint Management Platform Helps Diminish Cyber Risks

Nearly every day, a new data breach or cyberattack occurs – and the public sector is a significant target. Although the number of data breaches and...

Helping Organizations Move To An Enterprise-wide Work-from-Home Policy

As we see organizations implement enterprise-wide work-from-home (WFH) strategies to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19), we understand...

Tanium Named to Best Workplaces in Technology List by FORTUNE

We are honored to share that Tanium has been named to FORTUNE Magazine’s list of the “Best Workplaces in Technology,” a recognition determined...

Helping to Maintain the Health and Safety of Tanium Team Members and Our Customers During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak

As the global community responds to the Coronavirus outbreak, we are sharing the actions we are taking in the spirit of transparency and social...

Application Visibility and Control with vArmour and Tanium

Tanium’s integration with vArmour. At Tanium, our ecosystem of trusted and experienced partners helps enterprises and government organizations...

CRN Names Tanium’s Tom Herrmann a 2020 Channel Chief

We are delighted to share that CRN has named Tom Herrmann, Global VP of Channel and Alliances at Tanium, to the CRN Channel Chiefs 2020 list. This...

More Endpoints, More Complexity, More Risk – Why Federal Agencies Must Shift Their Approach To Unified Endpoint Management

Increased complexity across federal government networks. The rise of mobile apps and IoT devices combined with the use of commercial clouds are just a...

Leading Teams Through Transformation: Dylan DeAnda’s Story

Dylan DeAnda is a Vice President of Tanium’s Enterprise Services Organization (ESO). A year ago, Dylan was asked to build and lead this new ESO...

Announcing Tanium Discover 3.1: Discover Endpoints Deployed in the AWS Cloud Share

Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of Tanium Discover version 3.1, which includes the ability to discover endpoints deployed in...

The Biggest Irony in Technology

In short: IT is not being used effectively to manage and assess itself And, no, I’m not talking advanced AI, machine learning or self-healing here...

Endpoint Management, the Blind Men and the Elephant

The blind men and the elephant. The parable of the blind men and the elephant is thousands of years old and has several well-known variations.

How Your Organization Can Manage HIPAA Compliance with Tanium

Innovation and compliance in the healthcare industry. The use of big data to assist providers with patient care decisions, 3D printed skin for burn...

How SLED IT Professionals Should Adopt the Department of Homeland Security’s CISA’s Cyber Essentials Guidance

The past 12 months have been a trying time for many state and local government agencies seeking to harden themselves against frequent and relentless...

How to Quickly Find and Remediate Critical Security Vulnerability in Firefox, CVE-2019-017026

Firefox 0-day CVE-2019-17026: What you can do to prepare and remediate. On January 8, 2020 Mozilla announced a critical update to fix an exploitable...

Modernizing IT Operations: Find & Control Everything on Your Network

If you’ve recently attended an IT conference or tradeshow, you probably were inundated with a number of buzzworthy technologies that left you...

How the Strained Relationship Between Security and IT Operations Is Disrupting Business

IT decision-makers have a lot on their plates, from ensuring that their organizations are compliant and critical information is secured, to managing...

Driving Towards IT Hygiene | Challenge #3 Fragmented Workflows

Managing enterprise IT environments is becoming more and more complex. In this series, we’ll take a careful look at the challenges that have stemmed...

5 Tanium Community Articles to Help You Reduce Risk

The Tanium Community hosts hundreds of best practice articles. Each one is meant to help technical users achieve valuable outcomes when using Tanium.

Announcing Remote Scanning for Tanium Comply: Identify Vulnerabilities On Any Connected Device

As 2018 comes to a close we are excited to announce the next major release of Tanium Comply, our security compliance and vulnerability management...

Building a Career in Tech as an Art Major: Katie Hubert’s Story

In October 2019, Katie Hubert celebrated one year at Tanium. She joined us as a Marketing Coordinator after graduating college with her photography...

Welcome Chief Marketing Officer Chris Pick

I’m thrilled to officially welcome Chris Pick as Tanium’s Chief Marketing Officer. As of December 2019, Chris will lead our global marketing...

Announcing the 2019 Tanium Titans!

We are very excited to introduce Tanium Titans, a new program that recognizes individuals and teams that have gone above and beyond at their...

Better Together: Introducing Our Tanium Partner Advantage Program

This month at CONVERGE 2019, we hosted our first ever Tanium Global Partner Summit, and also introduced Tanium Partner Advantage, a new partner...

Solving the Hardest IT Challenges Together at CONVERGE 2019

That’s a wrap on our largest CONVERGE conference to date! This year’s theme was “Solving the Hardest IT Challenges. Together,” and with about...

Here’s What’s New In Tanium Core Platform 7.4

IT teams today struggle to gain end-to-end visibility and control of their endpoints, leaving themselves open to cyberattack and other forms of...

This Is What Happens When Security and IT Operations Are at Odds

The risky consequences of strained security and IT operations relationships. Today we’re sharing results of a new study by Forrester Consulting,...

4 Tips to Getting the Most Out of CONVERGE 2019

On Monday, we welcome over 1,000 attendees at our fourth annual user conference CONVERGE 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. Here are some insider tips to...

Unleash the Full Potential of Native Security Controls With Tanium Protect

During my time in the industry, I’ve had the opportunity to talk to many customers about their security posture, and the topic of antivirus...

Connecting Company With Community

We do the right thing. Doing the right thing is one of our core values here at Tanium, and one of many reasons why we have always focused on giving...

Best Practice Workflow to Start Detection and Response of Incidents Using Tanium Threat Response

In a recent Tanium blog, “Modernizing Security Operations Centers with Integrated Threat Detection and Response”, we discussed the importance of...

Breaking Down Cyber Security Barriers: CONVERGE Q&A With Stephanie Aceves

At CONVERGE 2019, Stephanie Aceves, Director Technical Account Management at Tanium, will host the Technical Lab ‘Getting the Most out of Tanium...

Building a Winning Business Case: CONVERGE Q&A With Trevor Walsh

During CONVERGE 2019, Trevor Walsh, Director of Commercial Programs at Tanium, will introduce a range of customers on stage, sharing how they built...

5 Tanium Community Articles to Help You Improve IT Operations

The Tanium Community hosts hundreds of best practice articles. Each one is meant to help technical users achieve valuable outcomes when using Tanium.

Find and Remediate New Google Chrome Zero-Day Exploit Using Tanium

Google on October 31 disclosed two new zero-day exploits affecting Chrome and recommended an urgent update. One of these exploits is already being...

Solving IT Challenges Together: CONVERGE Q&A With Matthew Hastings

At CONVERGE 2019, Matt Hastings, Security & Risk Portfolio Product Manager at Tanium, will host two breakout sessions, sharing what’s next on...

Chasing Sensitive Data: CONVERGE Q&A With Harman Kaur

Tanium Reveal can give you real time compliance status across your enterprise by locating sensitive data at scale, within seconds. At CONVERGE 2019,...

Dissecting a PowerShell Attack: CONVERGE Q&A With Ashley McGlone

PowerShell post-exploitation toolkits are prolific! How do you know if they are being used inside your enterprise? At CONVERGE 2019, Ashley McGlone,...

Tanium Awarded SLP+ Contract for State of California

We are very pleased to announce that Tanium has been awarded the Software Licensing Program Plus (SLP+) contract for the State of California....

What We Really Mean By “Digital Transformation”

In his role as Tanium CISO, Christopher Hodson frequently meets with CIOs, CTOs and CISOs who are tasked with supporting enterprise-scale technology...

Getting the Current and Complete IT Operations View: Integrating Tanium and Splunk

Managing security in an environment with thousands of computers distributed around the world is no small task, and should a successful cyber attack...

Driving Towards IT Hygiene | Challenge #2: Visibility Gaps

Managing enterprise IT environments is becoming more and more complex. In this series, we’ll take a careful look at the challenges that have stemmed...

Announcing Tanium Discover 3.0: Taking Back Control With Better Context

Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of Tanium Discover version 3.0, which includes new Discover scan profiles, interface...

Tanium Ranks No. 10 On FORTUNE’s 100 Best Medium Workplaces

I’m thrilled to share that for the second consecutive year, Tanium has been named to FORTUNE magazine’s annual list of the “100 Best Medium...

Countdown to CONVERGE 2019: One Month to Go

CONVERGE 2019 is one month away, and we couldn’t be more excited to soon welcome over 1,200 attendees to what is going to be our largest user...

How Better Endpoint Management Leads to Smooth Cloud Migrations

Leveraging cloud environments to host data is a strategic priority for enterprise IT departments. However, most management tools today predate cloud...

Driving Towards IT Hygiene | Challenge #1: Tool Proliferation

Managing enterprise IT environments is becoming more and more complex. In this series, we’ll take a careful look at the challenges that have stemmed...

Enrich CMDB and Orchestrate SecOps with Tanium and ServiceNow

Organizations change rapidly and IT is at the heart of the business. It’s all about speed and agility in combination with security and compliance.

Meet Tanium at NASCIO: Modernizing IT Operations and Security and Achieving Better Outcomes

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) hosts its annual meeting October 13-16 in Nashville, and for the third...

A Day of Giving in the United Kingdom

This October, the Tanium team kicked off a month long campaign of giving, committing to volunteer over 2,000 hours globally. Day of Giving is an...

Tanium Use Case: Know When Sensitive Data Appears on a Managed Computer

In any organization, data is constantly on the move. In the context of data privacy laws and regulations, if you are missing visibility into your data...

Welcome to a New Blog Series on Improving IT Hygiene

Managing enterprise IT environments is becoming more and more complex. In this series, we’ll take a careful look at the core challenges that have...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Map: Automate Discovery of Multi-tier Application Components with an “Easy Button”

Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of Tanium Map version 1.2, which includes a revamped Application Discovery feature. IT...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tanium Use Case: Threat Alerting & Analysis and SIEM Integration

Heartbleed, Shellshock and, more recently, Intel AMT and Spectre/Meltdown are all examples of high-profile vulnerabilities affecting computing devices...

Accelerating Investigations with Tanium and Chronicle Backstory

Tanium’s mission is to deliver full visibility and control of all network-connected devices. Our partnerships are focused on furthering that mission...

Compliance Gets Easier with the Right Technology Investments

GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) are two examples of how global privacy regulations are becoming more prevalent, stringent and...

CONVERGE 2019: Join Us In Nashville November 18-21!

Our fourth annual CONVERGE user event will take place in Nashville, Tennessee, from November 18-21—and we can’t wait to see you there! Tanium...

Operating System Patching...Scary, Right? It Shouldn’t Be.

It has been around since the day of the first operating system, and it will always be a task that everyone needs to pay attention to: Patching. No...

Don’t Let Typical Security Events Slow You Down: A PuTTY Example

If you work with Windows and Unix/Linux platforms, no doubt you are familiar with PuTTY, one of the more ubiquitous tools found on many administrator...

Tanium Honored With Morgan Stanley CTO Innovation Award

Last week, Tanium was excited to receive Morgan Stanley’s 19th TechWeek and CTO Innovation Summit award, recognizing us as an exceptional technology...

Take the Fear Out of Change: What Windows 10 Migration Questions Must You Answer?

General support and updates for Windows 7 will end as of January 14, 2020, which means security updates end after this date, as well, opening your...

New to Tanium Protect: Windows and macOS Encryption Management at Scale

Encryption of data at rest is essential for securing portable endpoints (e.g. laptops) in the event they are lost, stolen or inappropriately...

Limited Visibility Keeps Us From Assessing Our True Risk

What metrics do CISOs need? It’s a question I hear daily when I meet with CISOs and CIOs from some of the world’s best-known organisations across...

Architect, Tomorrow

If you work with an organisation’s technology at any level beyond niche specialities, chances are high you’re working with an architect. The term...

NEC Partnership Highlights Tanium’s Continued Momentum in Japan

Tanium is proud to partner with some of the best-known technology companies in Japan. Recently, we celebrated a new partnership with NEC to provide...

Why Do 81% Of CIOs and CISOs Hold Back on Important Security Updates?

Tackling the challenge of Business Resilience. A resilient organization can depend on its people, processes and technology to quickly adapt to...

Windows 10 Upgrades and Servicing Made Easy With Tanium

General support and updates for Windows 7 will end as of January 14, 2020. Like any major OS transition, this is not a small undertaking for most...

Introducing Tanium Performance: Improved End User Experience on Endpoints At Scale

Improving the endpoint user experience. Today, we are excited to announce Tanium Performance, which allows organizations to monitor, investigate, and...

Introducing Tanium User Research

We are excited to announce the launch of Tanium User Research, a new research program that gives our User Experience team the opportunity to learn...

Announcing Tanium Integration With Chronicle\'s Backstory Security Analytics Platform

Today we are proud to announce our integration with Chronicle’s Backstory security analytics platform. This integration will give our joint...

It’s 2019, Not 1997. Time to Modernize Your IT Operations.

I remember my first cell phone. It was chunky and weighed a lot, like a car battery with rounded edges that I could somehow use to talk to people.

How to Simplify Network Access Control With Tanium Network Quarantine Service and Cisco® ISE

Threat, security compliance and vulnerability data shouldn’t just be captured in alerts and reports – it should help drive the enforcement of...

Take Control of Your SSL/TLS Servers to Avoid Security Breaches and Public Outages

It is critical that enterprises audit their SSL/TLS servers as part of a regular security hygiene assessment process. Failure to do so can lead to...

Sensitive Data Management Made Fast and Simple: Introducing Tanium Reveal

Compliance requirements are changing rapidly. Tanium is here to help.

Just Patch Your Systems. Please.

Forget the boogeyman for a moment. Just for a moment, forget the nation-state threats.

IT Operations Success Requires Knowing Your Assets

It’s surprising how many times I hear weeks or even months old inventory data driving all sorts of projects and even security-related processes. You...

IT Operations Starts With Visibility to All Devices

You can’t manage what you can’t see. Before software can be installed, compliance assessed, inventory gathered, or patches installed, a system has...

It's Time to Modernize IT Operations. Business Resilience Depends on It.

New challenges. Same expectations.

Design Consistency Creates Efficiency

Solving real-word customer problems. Our goal at Tanium is to provide solutions to real-world customer problems.

See the Complete Picture: Introducing Tanium Map

On behalf of Tanium, I’m happy to announce the launch of our newest product module, Tanium Map. The essence of today’s technology-driven...

Leveraging Tanium Protect for Incident Remediation

Remediation is arguably the most important step in Incident Response, as it ensures malicious artifacts and other remnants of attacker activity are...

Register Now for Tanium CONVERGE 2018!

We are excited to announce that registration is now open for our annual user conference, Tanium CONVERGE 2018! This year, we are taking CONVERGE to...

Why Best of Breed May Not Be Best

It’s no secret that many organizations rely on numerous tools to manage technology operations and security. Purchased over the years to solve the...

Introducing Tanium Deploy

Deploy software with unparalleled speed and scale. Today, we added to the breadth of operations capabilities that Tanium delivers with the...

Another Persistence Method Reported Overnight On Twitter? How Tanium Can Help

Registry configurations designed to be used for troubleshooting and development are now a means of covert persistence due to the lack of visibility by...

SamSam Ransomware: How Tanium Can Help

As we work with our customers to protect their organizations against the latest variants of SamSam ransomware, we’ve learned more about how it...

Tanium Plays Key Role in Verizon Risk Report

The Tanium platform will be used as part of a new service offering from Verizon. The Verizon Risk Report will provide clients with crucial data about...

Getting Started With the MITRE ATT&CK Framework: Improving Detection Capabilities

To address questions about where to invest finite resources and how to measure success, our cybersecurity team aimed to develop a mechanism to...

Getting Started With the MITRE ATT&CK Framework: Lessons Learned

To address questions about where to invest finite resources and how to measure success, our cybersecurity team aimed to develop a mechanism to...

2018 Endpoint Security Survey: What Keeps InfoSec Pros Up At Night

We polled 270 IT security professionals to uncover their most pressing concerns about incident response, investigation, and remediation on endpoints....

EDR Matters: Responding To and Resolving Cybersecurity Incidents

This is the second installment in our three-part EDR Matters blog series. In this series, Chris Hallenbeck, Director of Tanium’s Endpoint Detection...

Navy Cyber Defenders Gain Unprecedented Control Over Their Network With Tanium

When it comes to cybersecurity, moving fast is crucial. Organizations need to be able to execute changes across their IT environment in seconds, even...

Meltdown and Spectre Microprocessor Flaws: How Tanium Can Help

Tanium’s Technical Account Managers are working closely with our customers to address the Meltdown and Spectre microprocessor vulnerabilities....

EDR Matters: Embracing a Proactive Approach to Cyber Hunting

This is the second installment in our three-part EDR Matters blog series. In this series, Chris Hallenbeck, Director of Tanium’s Endpoint Detection...

Cybersecurity and IT Operations: 3 Forces Shaping 2018

As we set out to consider the major cybersecurity and IT operations developments of 2017, we identified three major forces we believe will influence...

EDR Matters: How to Reduce Time-to-Detect

This is the first in our three-part EDR Matters blog series. In this series, Tyler Oliver, Tanium’s Director of Endpoint Detection and Response in...

EPP or EDR? Why you need both in your cybersecurity portfolio

EDR tools – like the forensic analysis products that preceded them – adapt to many use cases where EPP falls short. Yet, an effective endpoint...

CONVERGE17: Three Things We Learned on Day 2

We heard the latest on the global breach landscape and discussed the challenges presented by state-sponsored hacking, among many other topics....

CONVERGE17: Three Things We Learned on Day 1

We learned about the latest Tanium products and heard thought-provoking views on everything from artificial intelligence to quantum computing....

Introducing Tanium Asset

Announced today at Tanium CONVERGE17, Tanium Asset gives IT operations and asset managers an up-to-date picture of their endpoints and the software...

CONVERGE17: Unleashing the Power of You

Our annual CONVERGE user conference is your place to share ideas, learn from your peers, work closely with us to shape the direction of our product,...

State CIO 2017 Priorities: Why Visibility and Control Are Key

State governments are clearly looking for ways to more efficiently serve their citizens while keeping their data and the services they rely on secure....

Windows 10 Migration: Uncovering Hidden ROI

In the last of our three-part series on Windows 10 migration, Egon Rinderer, Senior Director of Technical Account Management at Tanium, explores the...

Welcoming Bina Chaurasia to Tanium As Our Chief People Officer

Our people are the most important part of our organization. They shape how we think and how we approach challenges.

Windows 10 Migration: How to Ease the Burden on Your Resources

In the second of our three-part series on Windows 10 migration, Egon Rinderer, Senior Director of Technical Account Management at Tanium, explores the...

Windows 10 Migration: How to Reduce the Time and Effort Required

In the first of our three-part series on Windows 10 migration, Egon Rinderer, Senior Director of Technical Account Management at Tanium, explores why...

Petya (or Not) Malware: What Tanium Customers Need to Know

Several high-profile organizations are already affected by a ransomware attack which began to spread in Europe on June 27. Tanium’s EDR and TAM...

How Tanium customers mitigated the risks of recent ransomware attacks

Tanium has been used across some of the largest networks in the world to mitigate the risks of several recent vulnerabilities, including WannaCry,...

Windows 10 Migration: Don’t Let Complexity Hold You Back

Dushyanth Nataraj, Director of Product Marketing at Tanium, explores why moving to the latest Microsoft operating system is so different from any that...

Tanium Receives a Resounding Vote of Confidence From the Investor Community

A stock round led by TPG Growth and other existing investors raises an additional $100 million for the company. This latest round is a testament to...

Helping State Governments Respond to Cybersecurity Incidents

When it comes to cybersecurity incidents, states bear a lot of the burden. They are responsible for protecting countless resources that provide...

WannaCry Attack: How Fear of Change Got Us Here

As Tanium’s Chief Security Architect, Ryan Kazanciyan has witnessed the internal response processes at dozens of businesses around the world in the...

This Time, It’s Personal: WannaCry and the Psychology of the Cyber Accountability Gap

While the speed with which WannaCry ransomware spread is not new, it does raise new issues of accountability – specifically personal accountability...

“WannaCry” / “Wcry” Ransomware Outbreak: How Tanium Can Help

At the first signs of what was to become a global ransomware attack on May 12, the endpoint detection and response (EDR) team at Tanium sprang into...

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...

How We Track Mean Time to Respond

This is the last in our four-part blog series illustrating how we track critical metrics. In this installment, Tanium SecOps Engineer Greg Pothier...

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.

NIST Cybersecurity Framework Updates Emphasize Supply Chain, Metrics

The revised NIST Cybersecurity Framework includes two key changes: expanded details on cyber supply chain risk management, and a new section on...

An Open Letter From Tanium’s CEO to Our Customers

I can imagine that many of you are getting tired of waking up to the bad Tanium press stories hitting your inbox in the last week. Most of you know...

Welcoming Fazal Merchant, Our New COO & CFO

I’m thrilled to welcome our new Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Fazal Merchant, to Tanium’s leadership team. From our first...

Why IT Is Failing at Security Hygiene: Survey

IT leaders have a problem with perception versus reality when it comes to understanding what’s happening with their endpoints, according to a recent...

The Three Stages of Security Hygiene: Framework

In the second installment of our three-part series, Tanium CSO David Damato explores how to use risk-based frameworks to build a mature and...

Looking Inward for the Best Threat Data

Organizations cannot afford to remain wholly dependent on a lifeline of one-size-fits-all data feeds in order to detect attacks. Tanium’s Chief...

The Three Stages of Security Hygiene: Evaluation

In the first installment of our three-part series, Tanium CSO David Damato explores why good security hygiene is so essential, and details the first...

How We Track Mean Time to Patch

This is the third of our four-part blog series exploring how we use the Tanium platform in our own organization. In this installment, SecOps Engineer...

How We Track Critical Compliance Metrics

This is part two in our four-part blog series exploring how we use the Tanium platform in our own organization. In part one, we revealed how we track...

Where Compliance and Security Hygiene Meet: Exploring the PCI TLS Encryption Update

If you’re looking at compliance as the endgame of your overall security hygiene practices, you’ll be missing out on crucial updates. The looming...

Welcoming Maggie Wilderotter and Anthony Belfiore to Our Board

We’re entering our tenth year as a company. A decade ago, the very idea of Tanium was impossible for most enterprise IT teams to imagine: a platform...

Government IT Leaders Recognize Need for Speed

Officials from the U.S. Cyber Command, the Air Force and the Department of Homeland Security are finding ways to strengthen our nation’s IT defenses...

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...

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.

The 3 Security Challenges to Digitizing the NHS

Background on National Health Service. Last year the U.K. Government set an ambitious target of making the National Health Service (NHS) paperless by...

Five cybersecurity predictions for 2017

To call 2016 ‘eventful’ in the IT and cybersecurity space would be an understatement. From Mirai to ransomware and NSA shadow brokers to Yahoo!,...

Empowering the Makers and Builders

I joined Tanium in 2012 as one of our first two Technical Account Managers (TAMs). Like so many working in tech, I’ve worn a bunch of IT hats over...

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...

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...

Tanium Named to Deloitte Technology Fast 500™

Today we’re thrilled to share Deloitte has named Tanium a Technology Fast 500™ award winner and the 15th fastest-growing technology company in the...

CONVERGE 2016: Highlights From Our Inaugural Conference

Don’t miss out. Join us for CONVERGE17, October 16-19, 2017, in San Francisco. And that’s a wrap on Tanium CONVERGE16, our inaugural–and sold...

Why We CONVERGE

Today we kick off CONVERGE, our inaugural conference in San Francisco. We’re gathering together our customers, team, partners, and technical experts...

Introducing Tanium Trends

Our customers frequently tell me how effective Tanium is at managing and securing their network. As Chief of Design and User Experience its my job to...

The UK Needs Actions, Not Words, to Encourage Basic Cyber Hygiene

Matt Hancock on cybersecurity. The UK’s newly appointed Minister for the Digital Industries Matt Hancock gave his first speech on cybersecurity last...

What Does Cybersecurity Awareness Mean to You?

Awareness as a foundation. At Tanium, awareness is the foundation of what we do: being aware of your entire network, and what’s happening on it, is...

Broken Cyber Hygiene: A Case Study

No shortage of information security tools. With more than 200 different products from 125 vendors to solve the top 20 security controls (deep breath),...

The Increasing Popularity of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework. In 2014, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created one of the...

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Panel Recap: Three Keys to Better Cybersecurity

The cybersecurity world faces a unique conundrum. On one hand, cybersecurity is becoming ever more present in our daily lives.

Volume of Breaches Can Breed Inaction

Cybersecurity threats facing British businesses. Reports appear everyday about the cybersecurity threat facing British businesses.

Be Ready: The CONVERGE Countdown Begins

Be Ready. What does that simple command mean to you? Concern? Confidence? Or maybe it reminds you of the running to-do list you have, but never seem...

Five Ways the Healthcare Industry Can Improve Its Cyberhealth With Security Hygiene

Healthcare industry suffers from significant security breaches. The healthcare industry has had a remarkably tough couple of years when it comes to...

The 5 Questions You Must Answer for Good Security Hygiene

Questions IT professionals need to answer. We all know IT professionals move too frequently between fires.

Federal Agencies Should Use MEGABYTE Act to Enhance Their Cybersecurity

The MEGABYTE Act. To protect your network, you have to know your network.

U.S. Election Update: Cybersecurity Edition

Election hacking is yet again in the spotlight. This week, the Washington Post reported that U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are...

Introducing Tanium Comply

Announcing Tanium Comply. Today we’re announcing the latest Tanium product module, Tanium Comply™.

You’re Going to Get Hacked. And Anti-Virus Won’t Save You.

The security industry is failing. Not failing to make money, of course: Gartner estimates worldwide industry spending will more than double by 2020.

Is Business As Usual Possible in the Cloud?

I am privileged to have been part of two massive IT transformations in my career. At VMware, I partnered with enterprises as they embarked upon a...

Cyber Grand Challenge: Automate the Easy Stuff

Darpa’s Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC). This week, Las Vegas hosted what organizers called the world’s first all-machine hacking tournament.

Teaming Up With Accenture, Palo Alto Networks, and Splunk on a New Cyber Defense Platform

Today we’re thrilled to announce that Tanium is teaming up with Accenture, Splunk and Palo Alto Networks to power the Accenture Cyber Defense...

Stealing Emails, Let Me Count the Ways

The recently publicized hack of the Democratic National Committee has brought an incredibly common form of data theft back into the spotlight:...

Mr. Robot: The Importance of Getting It Right

Q&A with Andre McGregor & Ryan Kazanciyan, the Tanium Duo Working Behind-the-Scenes on USA Network’s Hit Show. Mr. Robot, USA Network’s critically...

Time to Upgrade Federal IT: Pass the ITMF

Federal government funding for IT. Imagine running your business on computer systems from the 1980s or 90s.

With Importance Comes Duty

Tanium as one of the 25 most important private companies. Fortune Magazine recently named Tanium one of the 25 most important private companies of...

Integrating Tanium and SCCM: Client Health

In my role at Tanium, I’m frequently confronted with complex IT environments. Every client situation is truly unique; however, one of the amazing...

Introducing the PwC Threat Intelligence Stream Integration

The new PwC Threat Intelligence stream integration. One of Tanium’s core missions is to transform cumbersome manual processes into automated tasks...

Defining Risk Appetite: Cyber Risk and Our Hunger for Leadership

“You don’t have to be one of the recent, high profile corporate victims of a cyberattack to realise that cyber is a clear and present danger.”...

Leading DHS Official Talks About the Need for Control Over Your Network in Seconds, Not Days

Threat environment enterprises face. Here at Tanium, we talk to a lot of people in Washington – from our clients and potential clients to...

Government Must Be Bold if They Are to Help Businesses Manage Cyber-Threats

A conversation of rising cybersecurity threats. A conversation is happening in the UK about businesses’ responsibility to its customers in the face...

Our Design Journey

When I signed on as Chief of Design and User Experience, I was drawn to Tanium’s philosophy of customer-driven innovation, because it holistically...

Going Back to Basics to Prevent Ransomware Attacks

Ransomware attacks on a daily basis. Ransomware attacks are now daily news as new malware families emerge with nearly the same frequency and...

Back to the Basics: Detecting Malicious Windows Services With Tanium

An essential part of “knowing your network” is tracking endpoint persistence mechanisms – the myriad of ways in which an operating system can...

Cyber Literacy and the Board

The accountability gap. Tanium teamed up with NASDAQ to shed light on the gap between corporate leaders’ presumed and actual understanding of their...

Bridging the Accountability Gap: Why We Need to Adopt a Culture of Responsibility

Businesses face a litany of existential threats: hostile takeovers, talent departures, unpredictable customer behavior and market fluctuations – all...

It’s Time to Get Serious About Ending Endpoint ‘Tool Bloat’

Explaining endpoint ‘tool bloat’. Have you managed to acquire a pile of security tools in your organization that sit unused? It’s a common issue...

Don’t Get Hijacked! Searching for DLL Load Order Attacks With Tanium

Explaining DLL hijacking. DLL Hijacking, commonly referred to as load order or search order hijacking, is a well-documented malware persistence...

What’s Next in Endpoint Security: Announcing Tanium Protect™

A decade or more ago, the choice for how to allocate precious information security dollars was easy. The reality of today is much more complex.

It’s Only the Beginning

“There are three existential threats that can put us out of business today,” a CEO recently told me. “Meteors, nuclear war and cybersecurity.”

Assessing What Matters in an EDR Solution

Looking back at 2015, it’s hard to dispute that the security industry has been flooded with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) products. Walk the...

a16z Podcast: The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth

At September’s a16z Capital Summit, Andreessen Horowitz’s Ben Horowitz and Tanium’s Orion Hindawi sat down to discuss “The Fundamentals of...

How to Rapidly Remedy the OpenSSH Vulnerability

Last week, Qualys published a security advisory exposing vulnerabilities (CVE-2016–0777 and 0778) in OpenSSH client versions 5.4 to 7.1. When...

Reducing Risk During Mergers and Acquisitions

A checklist to create cross-company visibility of all systems. Mergers and acquisitions activity among the world’s largest companies has been on the...

How to Get to the Root of Certificate Security Risks

Dell's Certificate Authority (CA). News recently broke about Dell shipping a self-signed root Certificate Authority (CA) certificate and its private...

The Time to Change Federal Cybersecurity Is Now

How governments can stay ahead and recover from cyber attacks. This week, Federal CIO Tony Scott is expected to release a public report on ideas...

Cybersecurity Panel Key Takeaways: What Board Members Need to Know

What is cyber security risk? Tanium CFO & COO Eric Brown recently participated in a panel hosted by Nasdaq called Cyber Security: What Board Members...

In Conversation: Nasdaq’s Brad Peterson and Tanium’s Orion Hindawi on the Six Questions Every Board Must Ask Their InfoSec Leadership

When facing a massive data breach, a company’s status quo — and perhaps its very existence — can all be gone in a matter of seconds....

Tanium Incident Response Updates: WMI, Scheduled Tasks and Enhanced File Search

On Friday, October 30, Tanium released an updated version of our Incident Response module. I’m excited about several of the new capabilities...

The Case for Board Cyber Risk Oversight

Enterprise risk management model (ERM). As the Audit Committee chair for a public company, I am continually evaluating the enterprise risk management...

Helping Communities Stay Protected While Connected

Protecting the data of citizens. Smart government is truly the name of the game when it comes to cybersecurity.

The Global State of Information Security

As a Senior Associate, I worked closely with customers at PwC to collect information for their yearly Global State of Information Security Survey...

Improving Federal Cybersecurity Is a Shared Responsibility

Today marks the start of National Cyber Security Awareness Month and the fifth anniversary of the Stop.Think.Connect campaign, the federal...

Counting the Experiences and Not the Years

Today I was named one of this year’s most influential people in business under 40, a recognition I’m honored — and humbled — to...

Fueling Innovation Through Our Customers

The origin story. David and I started Tanium in 2007 because of a problem that was simple in concept and gargantuan in reality: our customers were...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...