Innovator Spotlight: Tanium

During my conversation with Melissa Bischoping, Senior Director of Security & Product Design Research at Tanium, she emphasized how the company addresses the critical challenge of operational risk and security by offering real-time visibility into endpoint telemetry. In today’s complex digital landscape, organizations face growing risks from endpoint vulnerabilities, shadow IT, and the lack of timely insights. Tanium’s platform is built to solve these issues, providing comprehensive asset discovery, incident response, and policy enforcement, all of which are customizable to meet the unique needs of any enterprise.

Tanium delivers a unified platform that integrates multiple endpoint management and security functions into a single interface. The Tanium XEM Core platform enables organizations to discover every endpoint across environments, whether on-premises, cloud, or hybrid, ensuring that nothing is missed. By delivering real-time telemetry and accurate inventory data, Tanium offers organizations an unprecedented level of visibility and control over their assets, making it easier to enforce security policies and prevent potential threats from escalating.

Tanium provides real-time data across millions of endpoints within minutes, allowing for faster incident response and threat detection. With automated incident containment, security teams can isolate compromised endpoints in real-time to prevent threats from spreading, significantly reducing the time to resolve security incidents.

One of the most notable success stories for Tanium is their work with International Justice Mission (IJM), a global organization dedicated to ending violence and exploitation in developing countries. IJM needed a solution that could provide visibility and control across its vast network of devices and improve security without hindering operations. With Tanium’s platform, IJM gained the ability to detect, respond, and remediate security incidents in real time. This led to enhanced efficiency, reduced operational risks, and improved organizational resilience. Tanium allowed IJM to focus on its mission while ensuring that its digital operations remained secure.

Tanium’s real-time, cloud-based platform ensures organizations can manage their endpoints efficiently. This capability is vital in today’s security landscape, where traditional point solutions often fail to provide a holistic view of an organization’s assets and risks. Whether it’s asset discovery, policy enforcement, or incident response, Tanium offers a customizable and scalable approach, making it a trusted partner for many organizations globally.

For organizations looking to improve their security posture and operational efficiency, Tanium stands as a robust, comprehensive solution designed to tackle today’s most pressing cybersecurity challenges. To explore Tanium’s solutions further or schedule a demo, visit Tanium’s website.

About the Author

Kylie Amison is a proud alumnus of George Mason University where she obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Cybersecurity Engineering with a minor in intelligence analysis and on call reporter for Cyber Defense Magazine

She is working full time at a leading mobile security company as an Application Security Analyst where her main tasking involves pen-testing mobile applications, secure mobile application development, and contributing to exciting projects and important initiatives that are consistently highlighted throughout the security industry.

In addition, Kylie contributed to a startup company as a cybersecurity software developer where she was the lead developer on one of the company’s products; a geopolitical threat intelligence engine that combines a broad assortment of metrics and NLP sentiment analysis to calculate nuanced and real-time threat scores per nation state. Contributing to this initiative has been pivotal in her knowledge of creating secure software and has given her the opportunity to not only develop her first product, but to also start her own startup company, productizing the software and capabilities created in her threat intelligence engine. She is presently co-founder and CTO of Xenophon Analytics.

Throughout all of her experiences and coursework, she has gained essential skills in secure software development, penetration testing, mobile security and a plethora of coding languages. She has further aspirations of going back to school to get a graduate degree in the field of digital forensics and cybersecurity.

Beyond academics and professional life, Kylie enjoys watching anime, reading, and doing anything with nature involved. When asked her ultimate goal in life, she responded with “My goal in life is to learn every single day, and I am proud to be doing just that.”