Remediation Visibility with Tanium Comply - Tanium Tech Talks #121

Vulnerability management has long been a fragmented process—security teams scan and prioritize, while operations teams patch, often without a shared view of what matters most. Remediation Visibility is a new feature in Tanium Comply that changes that dynamic by allowing teams to see which unscheduled patches will have the greatest impact on reducing vulnerabilities within the same interface where findings are surfaced.

Whether you’re a seasoned Tanium user or just getting started with Comply and Patch, this episode offers a practical walkthrough of how to pivot from “find” to “fix” with clarity and speed. Watch the video below to see how it works and learn why it’s transforming the way teams approach vulnerability management.

Key takeaways

• Why mapping vulnerabilities to patches matters—even if you “patch everything”: In reality, patching strategies vary across environments. Remediation Visibility helps identify what’s falling through the cracks and where the biggest risk-reduction opportunities lie.
• A unified view for prioritizing patch actions: Users can now view unscheduled patches that resolve the most severe vulnerabilities, ranked by impact. This includes both a patch-centric view and a CVE-centric view, helping teams prioritize based on their workflow.

[Remediation Visibility] is very unique because seldom do you have any place where you can see vulnerabilities from the perspective of what did we scan for in the same place where you can see what we can do about it—and then actually go do something.

• Actionable vs. unactionable findings: The new view highlights only those vulnerabilities that can be remediated through Tanium Patch, excluding vulnerabilities related to third-party apps or unsupported platforms, such as macOS.
• Seamless pivot to patching: From the remediation view, users can immediately take action, including adding patches to existing patch lists or creating new ones, much like a shopping cart for risk reduction.
• Continuous validation: After deploying patches, teams can run on-demand scans or rely on scheduled compliance scans to verify that vulnerabilities have been resolved, closing the loop on remediation.

Tanium is absolutely a continuous monitoring tool. And so absolutely, you can just kind of set it, know that it’s being remediated after walking through your kind of test process with that. And then you can come back here and kind of see, okay, what do I need to attack next?

• Built-in RBAC awareness: Remediation Visibility respects role-based access controls (RBAC), ensuring that operations teams can act on findings without encroaching on the security team’s territory.

Additional resources

• Technical documentation
• Remediation Visibility announcement
• Tanium Risk & Compliance solution
• Compliance vs. risk management: Definitions and differences