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Resetting the Foundation: Visibility, Control and Real-Time Action with Tanium

In today's fast-paced digital world, IT security and operations have become increasingly complex. However, there's a growing need to return to the fundamentals, emphasizing simplicity and focusing on what truly matters. This blog will explore the key areas where IT security and operations can benefit from getting back to basics.

In this blog

  1. Overview
  2. Understanding the basics 
  3. Simplifying IT operations 
  4. Foundational security capabilities 
  5. Addressing symptoms of failing capabilities and achieving resilience in IT operations
  6. Conclusion 

 Overview

  • Today, all enterprises rely on a backbone of mission-critical software. At the executive level, there is a strong expectation that IT systems will remain resilient in the face of operational outages or security events — often without full visibility into what it takes to ensure that resilience.
  • A business has resilience when it can maintain continuous operability of technology and data security in the face of inevitable change and disruption.
  • Autonomous Endpoint Management with real time data is paramount to either preventing disruptions or minimizing the impact of any disruption that does occur.

 Understanding the basics 

Getting back to basics in IT security and operations means focusing on foundational capabilities. These include visibility and control, which are essential for real-time observation and action across an enterprise environment. By understanding and reinforcing these core capabilities, organizations can enhance their overall security posture.

 Simplifying IT operations 

One of the first steps to getting back to basics is streamlining IT processes. This involves decluttering the IT environment, managing resources effectively, and setting clear priorities. Simplified IT operations can lead to increased efficiency and productivity, allowing teams to focus on critical tasks.  Autonomous Endpoint Management not only simplifies IT operations but can help prevent further disruptions from occurring and reduce the overall risk to the business.

 Foundational security capabilities 

Tanium's core security value propositions highlight the importance of foundational capabilities:

  • Visibility and control: In today's fast-moving and unpredictable landscape, maintaining visibility and control across your environment is essential to safeguarding the enterprise. Tanium provides the visibility and control your organization needs across the enterprise environment, offering the broadest platform coverage, strong data quality, and the highly comprehensive set of data that can be leveraged in a variety of ways.
    • Focus on improving visibility and control across the enterprise environment. These capabilities are essential for real-time observation and action. Relevant questions to consider include:
      • How complete is visibility and control across the enterprise environment?
      • What is the latency between action or information requests and responses?
      • How readily can the system adapt to take in new sources of data or enact new types of action?
  • Certainty of actions: How certain are you that the actions you take are the correct ones and will not negatively impact or disrupt your environment? Autonomous Endpoint Management with real-time data enables predictive actions to be taken with a high degree of confidence through a series of ringed and gated smart action deployments thereby greatly reducing the risk to the environment and ensuring with certainty that needed remediations have been implemented.
  • Emergency response: Tanium has consistently proven to be one of the most responsive and adaptable platforms during breach scenarios offering real-time remediation capabilities and the flexibility needed when every second counts.

 

 Addressing symptoms of failing capabilities and achieving resilience in IT operations

Organizations must identify and mitigate issues such as inconsistent, inaccurate or out-of-date insight into the state of workstations, servers, cloud instances, containers, IoT, and other connected devices. Ensuring accurate and up-to-date information is crucial for maintaining operational efficiency and security. Resilience in IT operations involves maintaining continuous operability of technology and data security in the face of inevitable change and disruption. This requires complete visibility and control over assets and data, minimizing the likelihood of disruption, and reacting and recovering quickly when disruptions occur.

 

 Conclusion 

In a world full of cyber chaos and IT sprawl, sometimes the smartest move is going back to the basics. Visibility, control and simplicity aren't just buzzwords — they're your secret weapons. So, trim the tech fat, tune the noise down, and let Tanium help you build an environment that's not just secure… but finally manageable. Because in IT, less guesswork means more greatness.

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