We use the solution for patching and security response.
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Helps with patching and security response
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
I like the tool's incident response and security patching.
What needs improvement?
The solution needs to improve the reporting and tracking capabilities.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the product for six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable. Tanium's agents that get deployed are highly reliable, which is the one benefit it has over SCCM.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product is built to scale.
How are customer service and support?
I have not contacted the tool's support directly but my team has and finds them to be pretty responsive. They are top in customer service.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is expensive but it's a good investment.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We decided to use Tanium instead of SCCM because of security reasons. It's one of the most effective security response tools.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate the product a seven out of ten. I would not choose the product blindly. It's a product you almost can't do without. You need to have an experienced person with strong security background or experience in setting up and using Tanium.
Useful tool for vulnerability management and deploying applications, needing improvement in its OS upgrade
What is our primary use case?
We use Tanium to deploy applications and for third parties, like Google Chrome which is already in-built in Tanium. We have deployed some packages which we are already using through SCCM, and those packages are what we are using in Tanium to attach those files and make a command line. Installation, uninstallation part, and detection methods are the things that we are using in Tanium.
What is most valuable?
I would say Tanium is the best tool for vulnerability management. If there is any issue, Tanium is a good tool.
What needs improvement?
We had some issues with the solution's OS upgrade. We had just downloaded one HP driver through the HP site, and the pack used, like, for more than 1 GB. Now, when I was deploying this package or the machine, its sync was getting so delayed because when I was installing it, I was not able to see the complete status, whether it was installed or not. The aforementioned areas in the solution I faced, especially for the driver, have room for improvement in this section.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Tanium Version 2.2014 for the past nine months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
This tool is good for vulnerability. But if I talk about the driver issue, some areas need to be improved for the driver and some heavy packages. Tanium basically says to use peer-to-peer connections.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
As for my project, there are around six team members using Tanium.
How are customer service and support?
When I was getting issues, there were some engineers from Tanium whom I asked regarding the driver package. They informed me that it would take some time to sync it. So, we cannot confirm on the console whether it is being installed or not. I was not able to see the error code because it was not syncing. That is a point which I notice Tanium. These are the things, which I discuss whenever we are stuck, and then we take help from Tanium when there is any major issue. As for the error message, I know that in Tanium, there are a few log files that we need to monitor. So, that is basically executed.
As for the technical support team, I would rate them six out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
As for the initial setup, it is somewhere in the middle, so it's neither easy nor difficult.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others would be that they should use Tanium. As you see in the market, you will find out that for Tanium, when you compare through its SCCM, there are only a few openings in Tanium. But as you will see, the SCCM market is a huge market.
As a vulnerability tool, I rate Tanium a ten out of ten. If you ask for the applications, it would be six to seven out of ten.
Overall, I rate Tanium a six out of ten.
A scalable solution that helps to understand how infrastructure works
What is our primary use case?
We use the tool as an infrastructure operational management solution.
What is most valuable?
The solution is scalable and helps to understand how infrastructure works. It helps to improve the health of the organization.
What needs improvement?
Any movement into a SaaS solution has challenges since the processes and data flows are not well defined. Hence, you need to build it at the same time.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the product's scalability a ten out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The product's setup is easy but depends on the environment. The tool's deployment took three months to complete.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution offers value for money.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate the product an eight out of ten. You need to know about your environment and if you are in a legacy environment, then you need to plan methodically.
A useful solution that can be used within the threat-hunting and vulnerability-management space
What is our primary use case?
I use Tanium to run all the security operations, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, threat hunting, red teaming, purple teaming, and everything within the vulnerability management space.
Server message block communication is one of the platform's strengths that tells how quickly it can get all the data. However, when we first deployed it, we were told to remove it immediately because it was causing issues along those lines. Within our system, we use the solution for the instant discovery and visibility aspect instead of using it to scan for vulnerability management. We have another solution for regular scanning. We use Tanium to collect the data from endpoints for the live response functions for looking at anomalous behaviors. When we had a specific targeted attack against it, a specific process was running, and we could identify and stop all of those.
What is most valuable?
Tanium's most valuable feature is its instant discovery aspect. You can have a look and see the processes running on the machine when looking for specific indicators. We use the solution within the threat-hunting and vulnerability-management space.
What needs improvement?
Tanium’s scalability could be improved. When we first deployed Tanium to Bank of America, it caused a massive contention issue on the network due to the size of the network and the amount of traffic coming back from SMB.
For how long have I used the solution?
We first used Tanium in 2016 at Bank of America.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Initially, we had some problems with the contention of the traffic, and the solution kept crashing. However, after a bit, it wasn't too bad.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Tanium's scalability was good once we got to it working properly on the smaller things. It was pretty good once it was optimized and used within the wider business. My organization has a huge infrastructure with over 20,00,000 switches and 3,00,000 servers within the business.
I rate Tanium an eight or nine out of ten for scalability.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of Tanium was very hard due to the size of the network of Bank of America. When you put out the initial bit, the amount of traffic coming back wasn't tunneled correctly, and it caused contention in various areas. We've got so many other technologies running within it, and it's a very, very complex environment.
We did the deployment in small bits. There was an initial three-month deployment, but that wasn't complete. Since Bank of America is across 29 countries and is absolutely huge, it involved breaking it down into logical business areas. The solution's overall deployment took over 12 months.
What other advice do I have?
We don't have a full-scale deployment per se. We're looking at the threat module within Tanium Threat Response in my current place.
Tanium is a very useful product. You've got to have the right use cases for it, but the visibility of things it gives you and the response time is really, really beneficial.
Overall, I rate Tanium an eight out of ten.
The solution is limited to a few classes, but it helps discover CIs and assets
What is our primary use case?
Tanium is primarily used for CMDV (Configuration management database) discovery. Tanium is meant to discover CIs and assets.
How has it helped my organization?
It's a good tool, but that's about it. It's like any other discovery tool. It's very detailed, and it will allow you to do hardware and software. I was using it in a very large enterprise.
What is most valuable?
The interrogation piece was the most valuable feature because it was very detailed.
What needs improvement?
Tanium's limitations should be improved because although it is a great tool, it is limited to only a few classes during a session. That doesn't do me any good if I do more than 300 classes.
Tanium’s user interface should be made better by making it a little bit more simplistic.
For how long have I used the solution?
I was a system integrator for Tanium for about eight months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I didn't face any issues with the stability part of the solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability is an issue. It's limited to the classes. When you're doing a large deployment, it doesn't meet your needs.
How are customer service and support?
The problem with the tool is the way it is developed. It's not anything that support could resolve. The tool's limitations do not make it a viable product if you're dealing with a large enterprise.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have worked with SCCM. There are lots of discovery tools out there, but Tanium works a little bit differently.
What about the implementation team?
Tanium is not a difficult tool to deploy. It's a fine tool, but it's geared to small to medium organizations. If you have a very large organization, it falls on its face.
We just followed the instructions during deployment. We had to put an agent on every unit, which was a little bit cumbersome. Six people were involved in the deployment, which took a few weeks.
What other advice do I have?
Tanium is not a difficult solution to maintain, and a specific team was responsible for its maintenance.
I suggest being aware of the tool's limitations.
Overall, I rate Tanium five out of ten.
One tool, many purposes
What do you like best about the product?
One of the best thing about Tanium is that it meets many requirements as an endpoint security tool. It has various modules to help us in achieving what we want- be it reports for analysis or deploying any patch or upgrade.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a bit complex for people who are to cyber security stream and are using Tanium as a first tool for hand on experience on endpoint security.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tanium is solving three fold problems of detection of vulnerability, analysis of the imapct of it on the environment and then resolving it by upgrading or deploying patches related to the same.
Tanium Cloud Platform offers instance deployments managed by PKI to enhance our security compliance
What do you like best about the product?
* Endpoint tooling configurations are less tedious, and Tanium takes care of the availability & security management.
* Provisioning, removing and protecting user roles can be defined in its Identity & Access management console at granular levels.
* Since our customer data is directly loaded into the Tanium platform, we can use its analytics dashboard to generate metrics, customer usage info & other metadata attributes.
* Tanium infrastructure supports multiple data hosting regions, thereby improving resiliency & recovery management of our customer data.
* All our new implementation & endpoint configurations are easily modified in the Tanium cloud platform's cloud-native infrastructure.
* Provisioning, removing and protecting user roles can be defined in its Identity & Access management console at granular levels.
* Since our customer data is directly loaded into the Tanium platform, we can use its analytics dashboard to generate metrics, customer usage info & other metadata attributes.
* Tanium infrastructure supports multiple data hosting regions, thereby improving resiliency & recovery management of our customer data.
* All our new implementation & endpoint configurations are easily modified in the Tanium cloud platform's cloud-native infrastructure.
What do you dislike about the product?
* We have recently started using the Tanium platform for one of our new customer requirements.
* Tanium agent scans through our entire cloud infrastructure and provides visibility without any additional costs.
* Since all endpoints are under Tanium's dedicated pipeline, we can utilize the parameters from our pre-existing data source connections.
* Auto-remediation feature effectively removes all malicious entities found after the endpoint investigation scan.
* So far, we are satisfied with the services offered by Tanium for our cloud-native application deployments.
* Tanium agent scans through our entire cloud infrastructure and provides visibility without any additional costs.
* Since all endpoints are under Tanium's dedicated pipeline, we can utilize the parameters from our pre-existing data source connections.
* Auto-remediation feature effectively removes all malicious entities found after the endpoint investigation scan.
* So far, we are satisfied with the services offered by Tanium for our cloud-native application deployments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
* Tanium cloud platform predominantly secures our instance endpoints from external malicious attacks & network vulnerabilities.
* It enhances the security compliance standards of our customer data through PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) & adhering to major regulations such as GDPR, HIPPA, PCI and VPAT standards.
* Administration of the endpoints is seamless thanks to its endpoint intelligence & end-to-end patching services enables us to identify network vulnerabilities & regulates comprehensive patching solution.
* Its predefined templates allow us to deploy applications that are used frequently & by enabling continuous monitoring, we can easily recognize threats that are targetting all these applications.
* We can also store our logs on dedicated server instances so that our log history won't get tampered with when there is an internal threat attempt.
* It enhances the security compliance standards of our customer data through PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) & adhering to major regulations such as GDPR, HIPPA, PCI and VPAT standards.
* Administration of the endpoints is seamless thanks to its endpoint intelligence & end-to-end patching services enables us to identify network vulnerabilities & regulates comprehensive patching solution.
* Its predefined templates allow us to deploy applications that are used frequently & by enabling continuous monitoring, we can easily recognize threats that are targetting all these applications.
* We can also store our logs on dedicated server instances so that our log history won't get tampered with when there is an internal threat attempt.
Awesome tool for a single pane of glass end user monitoring and management
What do you like best about the product?
It allows us to have a holistic view of issues (end user, performance, hardware resources, etc.) and even retains historical information that can then be used to report on and proactively stop events from reoccurring in the future.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not so much a downside, more of a comment that to get the best out of Tanium Performance and using it to its full potential, you should really invest in the Tanium environment and product suite
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tanium Performance helps to solve the grey areas around the analysis of end user performance across the organisation; the application is non-intrusive, it doesn't require a heap of ongoing management to keep it working, it gives us insights on the impact of changes to hardware in our environment and can measure the effects right down to a CPU upgrade
Breeeze for managing servers
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of configuring patching schedules
Total control with admin to push patches and force install
Easy to push packages (Updates ) OTA
Must for managing large infra as it takes to much time to do these tasks manually
Total control with admin to push patches and force install
Easy to push packages (Updates ) OTA
Must for managing large infra as it takes to much time to do these tasks manually
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing that I dislike, All good at the moment
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No more manual patching
no more getting downtime windows, can push updates via tanium without logging into the server
no more getting downtime windows, can push updates via tanium without logging into the server
Tanium Converged Endpoint Management and Security Real-Time Visibility
What do you like best about the product?
Tanium is like a swiss army knife for endpoint and network management and security.
What do you dislike about the product?
Tanium can be expensive, but they are top notch and you can negotiate significant discounts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Patching automation and security visibility and reporting has come a long way with Tanium. We spend much less time now with Tanium TanOS operating system and system lifecycle - weekly updates. It's a breeze now. Tanium has come a long way from where it started.
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