During its annual Converge Conference, Tanium unveiled its newest offering to address endpoint management and security. The autonomous endpoint management (AEM) solution is described as the next evolution of the existing Tanium platform, with new capabilities to protect businesses while capitalizing on the AI-driven explosion in data demand.
Tanium develops three new capabilities to bring automation to market
The Tanium platform already addressed pain points in adequately managing and protecting endpoints across an organization. The new autonomous capabilities leverage new automation technology to connect real-time data and AI/Automation technologies across millions of endpoints to drive IT and security operations change at scale.
“Tanium AEM leverages real-time insights from all Tanium cloud-managed endpoints to recommend and, at the customer’s election, automate changes on endpoints within a customer’s environment, giving IT and security teams a safe, scalable and automated platform to deliver increasingly efficient operations and an improved security posture at scale, with confidence, and in real-time,” said Tanium’s Channel Chief Tony Beller.
To bring this solution to market, Tanium says it developed the following:
- Real-time Cloud Intelligence: Tanium AEM can keep improving and adjusting insights to changing IT conditions and technologies by analyzing sensor trends, changing impact and user usage patterns across millions of endpoints instantly. Tanium has created a special cloud scale, multi-model stream processing architecture that can mix different analytical and AI models based on the insight needed.
- Automation and Orchestration: Customers can scale and extend the value of domain expertise by capturing and designing dynamic, reusable automations that span IT and Security operations use cases. Tanium Automate allows system-wide, endpoint-level automation playbooks to be created with low and no code experiences which can be executed at scale by leveraging the power of Tanium’s real-time data platform to continually evaluate the current state of the IT environment.
- Deployment Templates and Rings: When large scale changes to endpoints are needed, IT and Security teams often need the ability to phase deployments to match the cadence of the business with the criticality of the change itself. Ensuring that these deployments are well-managed and repeatable leads to better IT and Security outcomes with lower risk and cost.
Belller told Channel Insider this solution has already helped their partner network drive more opportunities and better serve their customers in several use cases.
“These use cases involved everything from daily blocking and tackling, such as performing workstation cyber-hygiene workflows at scale, to highly complex, critical production systems,” Beller said. “One cyber hygiene use case example is identifying and remediating workstations with low disk drive capacity prior to rolling out major system updates. This may take several discrete manual steps using multiple tools or teams, but Tanium Automate allowed the customer and True Zero to create an integrated playbook that could be deployed confidently.”
Platform promises to address IT needs, grow partner opportunity
With the AEM release, Tanium is trying to ease the burden of IT leaders at organizations with disparate endpoints, including those who work with complex permissions models and those who have recently gone through a merger or acquisition activity.
“I can honestly and truly say that without Tanium, I could not do my job,” said Sean Henry, the director of IT security for Hitachi Astemo. “Tanium is one of the few technologies that allowed the security group to manage the endpoints of the company post merger. Tanium allowed my group to “See” and manage all 7500 endpoints from Canada to Brazil. Easy to deploy and immediate results.”
Beller highlighted how Tanium differentiates itself from others in the crowded security market, and how Tanium’s partner ecosystem benefits along with their customers.
“One of my favorite value pillars we share with partners and customers that resonates with security teams, and their counterparts in IT Operations, is ‘You can’t protect what you can’t see.’ In contrast with alternative solutions in the market, Tanium’s proprietary linear chain architecture provides partners full endpoint visibility at a scale and speed that is unmatched,” Beller said. “When we’re often doing demos or POCs, most participants are blown away that the data we are returning is in real-time, not a snapshot in time or cached from days or weeks ago. Speed and certainty are everything when responding to a security incident.”
Tanium also announces new cloud workload security capabilities
Tanium also announced a new security solution focused on containerized environments. Tanium Cloud Workloads identifies vulnerabilities and configuration issues in container images before they reach deployment. The solution also offers container inventory analysis to provide visibility across clusters and nodes.
“In today’s digital landscape, managing the complexity of containerized environments is more critical than ever as businesses increasingly rely on cloud-native technologies to drive innovation and agility,” said Matt Quinn, Chief Technology Officer, Tanium. “By expanding our endpoint support for containerized workloads in the Tanium platform, organizations can now identify and mitigate risks for containers along with other endpoints, without requiring additional tooling.”
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