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 offers free tech training to vets and others from underserved communities. Abbott and two NPower alums now employed at Tanium discuss how businesses can solve the growing problem of understaffed security teams. HOST: Chelsea Nelson, Marketing Program Manager, Tanium GUEST: Nelson Abbott, Senior Director of Advanced Program Operations, NPower GUEST: Mike Torrence, NPower alum and Associate Technical Support Engineer, Tanium GUEST: Chris Roberson, NPower alum and Associate Technical Support Engineer, Tanium

“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 companies with very different security postures.   HOST: Chelsea Nelson, marketing program manager, Tanium GUESTS: Dan Ronco, director of enterprise security architecture, Service Logic

“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: Chelsea Nelson, marketing program manager, Tanium GUESTS: Scott Dickinson, CISO, AnMed

“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 manager, Tanium GUESTS: Stephen Harper, quantum information science engineering lead, Accenture Federal Services

“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 architect, Tanium GUEST: Kevin Chu, founder and president, Chuco

“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 months. HOST: Chelsea Nelson, marketing program manager, Tanium GUEST: Brian Klotz, global endpoint architect, MillerKnoll

“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, Tanium

“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 architect, Tanium Guest: Brandon Wolfe, senior director for strategic partnerships, Tanium

“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