Tanium Podcast

“That's what they bring to the table, this eye for creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, that we don't see in a lot of other traditional talent pipelines.” The unique skill set that veterans bring to private sector employers is why they’re so well suited to cybersecurity, where the tech stack and attack strategies keep evolving, says Nelson Abbott, of NPower. The national nonprofit offer...

“The first thing we say is: ‘We want to put Tanium on your endpoints.’ And we do so not to take control but to give visibility. We try to convey that with them because a lot of the businesses that we acquire come with a little bit of skepticism.” That’s how Dan Ronco, at the largest private HVAC services provider in North America, uses Tanium to assess endpoint management and align acquired compan...

“When I got there, they had over 200,000 critical, high and medium vulnerabilities. Since bringing in Tanium, we've just had another security assessment done and we only had 30,000.” Reducing serious vulnerabilities by 170,000 is just one of the ways CISO Scott Dickinson has utilized Tanium to reduce the attack surface since arriving at AnMed, a nonprofit health system in South Carolina. HOST: Che...

“We have a bit of a branding issue when we talk about post-quantum cryptography because it sounds a lot more complicated than it is.” Accenture’s Stephen Harper wants federal agencies to take data provided by Tanium Certificate Manager and modify it to meet new quantum reporting requirements – before today’s methods of encryption are completely unlocked. HOST: Chelsea Nelson, marketing program man...

“Part of me really dove into contributing to the community…. You’ve got to get some users over that first hump and then they're off and running.” We talk to Kevin Chu on his transition from Tanium employee #5 to partner and trusted advisor , including the challenges, mind-shifts, and new use cases he finds guiding customers through the Tanium experience. HOST: Doug Thompson, chief education archit...

“The fact that Tanium was cloud-based was a tremendous benefit…because we had devices all over the world and behind different firewalls, different networks.” Mergers and acquisitions present unique security challenges. Here’s how the brand behind the world’s sleekest home office chairs (and other iconic furniture) stands up to cyber risk. It starts with an inventory of your assets in days , not mo...

“What level of automation are we talking about here? I mean, because I still won't get in a car that doesn't have a human at the wheel.” With Tanium Automate, you can codify (and simplify) complex manual security tasks, saving time, reducing errors, and yes, keeping a human at the wheel.   HOST: Doug Thompson, chief education architect, Tanium GUEST: Steven Yang, director of product management, Ta...

“We want to be the eyes and the hands of the organization.” As the eyes and hands, Tanium can quickly spot and remediate vulnerabilities, while ServiceNow maintains your data regarding business service criticality. It’s a partnership. And your configuration management database (CMDB) ? That’s your single source of truth. Click here to learn how it works . Host: Doug Thompson, chief education archi...

“You don't need to be an expert in security response to effectively leverage [this] powerful and complex tool.” Learn how Tanium customers get actionable responses in seconds to endpoint vulnerabilities and threats with Tanium & Microsoft Copilot for Security .   HOST: Doug Thompson, Chief Education Architect, Tanium GUEST: Brent Foster, Director, Product Management, Tanium

“What we saw, once we installed Tanium, was flabbergasting.” Learn about the power of real-time visibility, autonomous patching, and compliance and vulnerability scanning on our XEM platform .   Host: Adrian Duckenfield, technical account manager, Tanium Guest: Dennis Knight, end user computing manager, Canterbury Christ Church University

“In less than six months. I'm already in the black.” A new Total Economic Impact report reveals how Tanium’s Converged Endpoint Management (XEM) benefits security…and spend.   Host: Doug Thompson, chief education architect, Tanium Guest: Ken Smiley, director of product marketing – ITOps portfolio lead, Tanium Guest: Roy Schuster, senior director of value engineering, Tanium (Update: Since recordin...

“We had an insane number of CVEs.” After deploying Tanium, this world-class research center saw common vulnerabilities drop 80%. Here’s how they put our XEM platform to work.   Host: Ben Hall, director in the technical account management team (TAM), Tanium Guest: Dean Smith, head of IT, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

“When you plug it in, you better buckle up.” That’s the word from this UK university after connecting ServiceNow’s cloud computing system with Tanium’s security platform . Get ready for a “whole new level of richness.”   Host: Kirk Bellerby, UK education lead, Tanium Guest: Anthony Stevens, associate director of digital strategy, University of Salford

It’s back-to-school season, a time when cyber risks skyrocket for higher-ed institutions. In our Customer Spotlight series, we hear how one UK campus enhanced their asset discovery and patch management . (Spoiler: Automation was key .)   Host: Kirk Bellerby, UK education lead, Tanium Guest: David Conway, deputy technical director, University of Sunderland

In our premiere episode, we launch our Customer Spotlight series, in which customers from around the world describe the security challenges they face and the benefits gained with Tanium. First up, we explore the needs of higher education, and how vulnerability management without context still leaves you pretty darn vulnerable. The solution : integrating asset management , true visibility, and real...