Tanium Inc Cloud

Currently, we have around six Fortinet boxes in three locations, but nothing as a cloud service yet.

We are using Kaseya VSA . Kaseya is deployed in the cloud with Office 365 . We also have Tanium  from the corporate office, which is another tool that is part of Trend Micro.

We manage Tanium  by looking at what is happening and report any anomalies to the head office.

Tanium is a mandate from our corporate office. We had to install it so that they can push their applications remotely. For example, we implemented Trend Micro, but nothing was done from our side. We had to install Tanium on the endpoints and then we got Trend Micro up and running on the endpoints through Tanium.

Once we install Tanium, we see that after a certain period of time, Trend Micro has been deployed without our intervention. It is a good tool for remote application deployment. However, Tanium itself has to be deployed manually.

We set a policy to block USB access. The moment a device is being set up on the network, I apply the policy, but it does not come into effect immediately. Sometimes it takes three or four days for it to reflect.

Tanium seems to be quite powerful, but we do not have the opportunity to explore its full potential because we are on a restricted access level from the corporate head office. However, with the limited access we have, we see that it is quite powerful in terms of acquiring data. It allows you to run queries from the interface.

Once you onboard Tanium, there is a lot to explore.

Tanium is quite powerful, but PDQ, when I used it, I preferred PDQ more than Tanium. That may be because I had full control, not the limited access that is given to us in Tanium right now.

The integration is not simple and easy. It requires experienced users or people who have done the implementation.

When certain policies are applied, they do not immediately push the policies. For example, we manage endpoint device USB access. We set a policy to block it, but it does not come into effect immediately. Sometimes it takes three or four days for it to reflect. That is a pain point.

I have raised this issue with support as well, but they said that I need to limit the number of devices in the policy.

In terms of application deployment, for us, it was seamless.

Almost two years now.

Tanium is stable and it is also lightweight. It is not heavy on the endpoint.

Technical support is handled through the corporate support, so we are not directly dealing with Tanium's technical support. Nevertheless, I feel it may be good because it is vastly used on the Europe side.

We had to move with Fortinet because of the corporate mandate. We were using Forcepoint for more than a decade since they were Stonesoft , then they became Forcepoint. However, recently, last year, we had to change our solution to a Fortinet firewall.

Two years back we were acquired by another company. Until then, we had Forcepoint and everything all in-house. We had a say and used to go with the choice of solutions, but after the acquisition happened, we had to blend with the corporate policies. We cannot do anything independently.

Tanium's corporate office did all the back-end policy setup, but we had to deploy the application in-house.

I did use PDQ in the past during the COVID times for remote deployment of applications. PDQ Deploy  is one alternative solution.

For Tanium, PDQ Deploy  is one alternative to consider. My overall review rating for Tanium is eight out of ten.

Tanium  is used for heterogeneous endpoint management in general. As a consultant, I work with different customers across multiple industries. Tanium  could be useful in finance, education, federal, and I have worked with companies in education, distribution, logistics, manufacturing, and aerospace. Some of them do have Tanium in those situations.

Tanium’s best features include support for any Windows, Linux, or Mac endpoint, regardless of where it is, and the ability to do IT operations and security operations. That’s really the big benefit.

I assess Tanium’s real-time data aggregation capabilities for aiding risk identification or remediation as probably the best in the industry.

While Tanium doesn’t call it that, I utilize dashboards and reporting for analytics for endpoint performance insights.

Regarding the metrics that are most useful with Tanium’s detailed analytics, it depends on what your goal is and what problem you’re trying to solve or what you’re trying to address, because it does so much with both IT operations and security operations.

Tanium has top of the line integration. There are areas that could be improved with Tanium, in my opinion, with continuous improvements anywhere.

I have been using Tanium for five years.

Tanium is suitable for small and medium businesses at around 5,000 endpoints and under.

I rate Tanium’s support as very good.

I am still using Tanium within the last 12 months.

I do use the automated patch management with Tanium.

Patching with Tanium, if you’re doing regular patching manually or automated, is going to reduce vulnerability findings.

I think the pricing for Tanium is fair enough for small and medium businesses and enterprise. It's good for multiple kinds of use cases, but I would say it’s better for enterprise.

Overall, I would rate Tanium an eight on a scale of one to ten.