In a matter of hours, he used Tanium to map a sprawling shadow IT organization that had flown under the radar for years, but that was just the beginning of his story.Īfter building a complete, real-time asset inventory using Tanium’s unique linear chain architecture, he further assessed policy configuration, patch state, user permissions, and more. He was shocked to find more than 30 percent of the endpoints were previously unknown and unmanaged, having not been discovered by the acquired company. The CISO said during the integration process he used Tanium to scan for unmanaged devices in the acquired organization’s domain. Discovering assets, assessing device compliance and vulnerability state, fixing gaps, merging active directories, and otherwise bringing assets under management in the context of a corporate merger is a lot to ask, let alone optimizing IT operations and user experience.

With so many endpoints involved, he initially felt daunted by the task, and for good reason. Not long ago, I spoke with the CISO of a Tanium customer that had integrated hundreds of thousands of endpoints from an acquired organization. In this guest blog post, Nic Surpatanu, Chief Product Officer at Tanium, discusses taking control of and securing IT estates and how Tanium works with Microsoft solutions like Azure Active Directory, Defender for Endpoint, and Sentinel.Ĭan you imagine inheriting assets you couldn’t find, only to discover they were hidden behind drywall?

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