Tanium has announced a new five-day risk assessment that provides a holistic and quantifiable enterprise-wide view of an organization’s risk posture. This includes a distilled score and comparison of risk posture to an industry benchmark, and a detailed remediation and implementation plan to address overall risk in their environment.
The new risk assessment combines the Tanium platform’s capabilities, a cloud-based delivery model, and Python-based script automation to provide a long-lasting, data-driven method of analyzing and conveying IT risk to all levels of the business that isn’t time-consuming. Customers can enhance their risk score by using the Tanium risk score to make informed, fact-based decisions regarding their IT budgets, investment plans, and targeted remediations.
“How do you create value with a risk solution?” asks Phil Harris, research director, cybersecurity risk management services, IDC.
He added, “Provide data as close to real-time as you can and automate, automate, and automate compliance. Take the data, rank the data, prioritize the data, and show how it’s going to impact the risk score and what it means to enterprise risk management. Once you know what’s going on, you can make better business decisions.”
Existing industry risk assessments provide a far limited view of an organization’s risk because they can’t access the volume and variety of data stored on endpoints, forcing customers to combine crucial data from many tools to gain a full picture of risk throughout the business. When you consider that only 37% of IT security leaders estimate it takes their company less than a day to discover and track threat activity across all endpoints, this is an issue.
The Tanium risk assessment’s quantitative and repeatable nature provides an understandable framework for CISOs and CIOs to communicate with business executives and boards about the company’s IT risk posture and the efforts internal teams are taking to enhance it.
“Clearly quantifying and communicating risk continues to persist as a top challenge for organizations, regardless of size or industry, leaving CIOs and CISOs with the difficult task of contextualizing their priorities and justifying investments to their executive teams and boards,” said Tanium Chief Product Officer Pete Constantine.
He added, “The Tanium risk assessment addresses that gap head on by providing customers with a tangible, complete view of their risk posture and a clear path to address cyber incidents including ransomware, insider threats, and persistent vulnerabilities like Log4j.”
Customers may get a holistic, quantitative perspective of risk across system vulnerabilities, compliance, administrative access, risk of lateral movement, sensitive data identification, encryption and authentication, and insecure transport security methods with Tanium’s risk assessment. Other advantages include:
