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Tanium Converge 2025: Key takeaways for enterprise IT and security - Tanium Tech Talks

Tanium Tech Talks hosts Ashley McGlone, Alex Miller, and Jesh Sax go behind the scenes at Converge Orlando 2025, sharing firsthand perspectives on the product announcements, keynote insights, and hands-on experiences (from OT visibility and Jump Gate to AI agent workflows and a CTF that wasn't designed to be completed) that defined this year's event.

Tanium Converge 2025 brought together customers, partners, and practitioners in Orlando for three days of product announcements, hands-on labs, keynote sessions, and the kind of peer-to-peer conversations that can only happen in person. This year's event centered on a significant theme shift: autonomous IT, an expansion beyond autonomous endpoint management that now encompasses three additional capability buckets.

From the capture the flag competition on day zero to main stage appearances by Zack Kass, formerly of OpenAI, Shawn Bice from Microsoft, and Jesse Eisenberg, the event covered ground that even attendees found difficult to take in all at once.

Ashley, Alex, and Jesh were all onsite at Converge Orlando 2025, and in this episode they share what they saw, what resonated with customers, and which announcements generated the most excitement on the floor. The conversation covers the new operational technology visibility announcement, Tanium Jump Gate, endpoint-level triggers for Automate, AI agent workflows with Microsoft and ServiceNow, and a CTF that was deliberately designed to surface knowledge gaps rather than be finished.

Whether you attended Converge in person or followed along virtually, this recap surfaces context and detail that are easy to miss when so much is happening at once. Watch the full episode below to get the inside perspective on what Converge 2025 means for enterprise IT and security teams.

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Key takeaways

  • CTF built to reveal gaps: The Converge 2025 capture the flag featured polymorphic malware and boxes being ransomed if you messed up, and it was not designed to be completed. The goal was to show people exactly where their knowledge gaps may exist, making it a learning experience designed to mimic real life, in Jesh's words.
“It wasn't really designed to be completed, right? And when you see some of these teams just knocking it out of the park, I have no idea where this knowledge base comes from. So many amazingly talented people partook in this CTF.”
Tanium Product Enablement Architect Alex Miller
  • OT visibility announced: Tanium announced operational technology visibility, giving organizations the ability to see items that are generally not managed, even though they should be managed. For customers who have been asking for this capability, the announcement represented the delivery of something that had been in development and previewed over two previous Converge events.
  • Jump Gate introduced: Tanium Jump Gate enables users to open a CLI session on many Tanium-managed endpoints, with a streamlined experience and rapid access. The capability had been a long-standing question for practitioners, and its delivery at Converge drew significant attention on the floor and in the labs.
  • Endpoint-level triggers for Automate: An upcoming capability will allow endpoint-level triggers for Automate, enabling playbooks to execute conditions and actions at the endpoint itself without checking back with the server first. This pushes automation out from a centralized model and was described as making this automation even so much more robust with just a little feature addition.
  • AI agents and cross-platform workflows: Tanium, Microsoft, and ServiceNow are building agentic workflows that enable cross-platform workflows from end to end, described as trading AI agents like baseball cards between partners. The result is cross-platform workflows that span Tanium, Microsoft, and ServiceNow, building on two years of platform re-engineering to support the endpoint expansion with Intune and OT devices.
“Out of all the products out there, everyone knows to get good AI, you need good data. And if there's one thing we kill it at, it's that great data.”
Tanium Product Enablement Architect Alex Miller
  • Main stage keynote guests: Shawn Bice from Microsoft discussed enterprise-scale security impacts, including nation-level consequences from a single breach. Zack Kass, global AI advisor and former OpenAI GTM lead, delivered a talk on AI that referenced his paper "Unmetered Intelligence" and covered ideas that attendees found difficult to keep up with in real time. Jesse Eisenberg spoke about how AI is affecting the arts, sharing that when he fed thousands of pages of his own scripts into an AI and asked it to write an opening scene, the result was accurate but had no soul.
  • Converge ROI and the hallway track: The hallway track, consisting of side conversations with peers, product developers, and partners, often delivers problem-solving value and knowledge that can be harder to replicate in a virtual experience. Attendees consistently reported learning things in those conversations that would have taken weeks of internal effort to figure out on their own.
“You have problems and you probably know what they are that you're struggling to solve with Tanium. And either you are going to pay your people weeks and weeks worth of salary to figure it out or you're gonna go there, talk to a few people who've solved this problem already in an environment really similar to yours, can tell you the ins and outs. You learn new things, like return on investment is so real with what you get to take away from these.”
Tanium Product Enablement Architect Jesh Sax

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