Tanium Case Study: Whirlpool

How Tanium Helped Whirlpool Succeed

Before Tanium we were always behind the curve with virus definitions. We were always playing catch up. It wasn’t unusual for 5–10% of our devices to be out of compliance with our policy. Once we deployed Tanium, our average went down to less than 1% almost overnight.

Greg Fisbeck Former Senior Manager of Cyber Security Operations, Whirlpool

A Single Source of Truth That Unifies Teams

Like many multinational businesses, Whirlpool used a variety of different security tools in a lot of different places, creating gaps in visibility, accountability and resilience. The team turned to Tanium to help them find a single source of truth for their environment, uniting teams on a single platform for endpoint management and security.

Unifying Teams on a Single Platform

Prior to Tanium, disparate endpoint security tools could either report on problems or manage problems – but not both. With Tanium, Whirlpool now has a single platform to discover, manage and act on issues across the environment.

Complete Visibility and Compliance

Thanks to Tanium's real-time visibility across the entire network, Whirlpool discovered a compliance problem the team didn't even know existed and was able to remediate it instantly.

Improved Security Hygiene

In the days before Tanium, security teams would manually pull a report from their antivirus tools and send out emails asking people to update their systems. Today, scans and remediation responses are automated across the entire network.

The Most Technically Demanding Organizations Trust Tanium

The visibility we gained with Tanium was incredibly impressive. Classifying inventory and discovering IoT devices has been made possible.

Ken Athanasiou Former CISO, AutoNation

Operating on a global scale provides a lot of challenges when it comes to knowing your environment. For the first time, we’ve been able to get a fast and accurate picture of our environment with Tanium.

Troels Oerting Former Group Chief Security Officer, Barclays

Using Tanium, a team member asked ‘What machines are running Thunderbolt monitors?’ and got the answer back immediately. Leveraging Tanium, the team correlated the event of a specific monitor being plugged in with the network outage, which was the key data needed to isolate the issue with the display.

Jason White Director of the CSIRT, GoDaddy

Tanium is very good at answering very specific questions, being able to get the data back is so satisfying and raises the level of quality of the analyst data.

Sutter Health Team Cyber Security & Privacy Investigation Team, Sutter Health

Before Tanium we were always behind the curve with virus definitions. We were always playing catch up. It wasn’t unusual for 5–10% of our devices to be out of compliance with our policy. Once we deployed Tanium, our average went down to less than 1% almost overnight.

Greg Fisbeck Former Senior Manager of Cyber Security Operations, Whirlpool

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