In a world where complexity grows by the day and AI reshapes the threat landscape, one question stands out: How do organizations stay ahead?
Day one’s keynote addressed the realities facing IT and security leaders. Global outages, escalating cyberattacks, and the relentless pace of AI have made complexity the new normal.
In his opening remarks, CEO Dan Streetman set the tone: resilience is essential, but it’s not enough. Organizations need confidence in their systems, trust in their data, and seamless collaboration across every team.
The future, Dan emphasized, will be built on Autonomous IT. To move toward this future, Tanium’s mission is to empower IT and security leaders to innovate faster, strengthen resilience and drive business outcomes with confidence.
Our mission is to deliver Autonomous IT
With AI shaping the future, speed is everything. Critical systems must run 24/7, from healthcare and finance to global supply chains. AI is transforming workflows everywhere, and it’s also rewriting the rules of cybersecurity. Threat actors now use AI to launch adaptive malware, deepfake-powered social engineering, and large-scale cloud infrastructure to detect vulnerabilities.
Dan reminded the audience that enterprises have the home-field advantage because they don’t just hold data—they know how to turn it into decisive action.
By deploying intelligent agents that know their environment, adapt in real time, and act with precision, organizations can outpace disruption to become unstoppable, operating with confidence in an AI-driven world.
Unstoppable by design
Why does being unstoppable matter? It’s not just about preventing outages or breaches; it’s about accelerating innovation and building trust in a world where regulators demand resilience and customers expect reliability.
CIOs, CISOs, and their teams are at the heart of this mission, and Tanium is committed to delivering intelligent, proactive automation and unifying management and security across IT, operational technology (OT), and mobile. Tanium eliminates blind spots and enables decision-making at speed and scale, so organizations can be truly unstoppable.
Through powerful customer stories shared on the main stage, Converge attendees saw this vision come to life:
- AutoNation used Tanium to verify more than 25,000 endpoints after a supplier ransomware attack, emerging stronger and more secure.
- SAP leveraged Tanium to consolidate thousands of endpoints after multiple acquisitions, reducing complexity and risk.
- The City of Phoenix relies on Tanium to keep lifesaving services resilient as cyber threats increase.
These stories underscored what Autonomous IT delivers today: real-time intelligence, confidence through risk scoring, progressive deployment, and remediation in seconds, not hours or days.
And where is Tanium headed? We build. We protect. And we find new ways to do all these things better by expanding coverage for mobile and OT devices, delivering AI that’s generative and agentic to understand your unique IT environment, and strengthening integrations with key partnerships.
Dan made the vision clear: Autonomous IT. Unstoppable Business. That’s what this week is about—and what the future holds for IT and security teams.
Leaders keeping their companies unstoppable
During his keynote, Dan welcomed industry leaders in person and virtually to share what "unstoppable" looks like in their organizations:
- SailPoint: CIO Sree Kancharla described a 75 percent reduction in manual compliance reviews and a 600 percent productivity boost through AI-powered recommendations and unified data modeling—all powered by Tanium.
- Microsoft: Steve Dispensa, CVP security solutions, shared how Tanium and Microsoft are partnering to deliver real-time intelligence and autonomous workflows, giving enterprises the upper hand against evolving threats.
- Best Buy: CISO Adam Mishler highlighted a 20 percent reduction in alert resolution time and the ingestion of 25 TB of real-time data daily, turning Best Buy into a defensive powerhouse.
- McDonald's: Deputy CISO Dane Thomas described deploying Tanium to nearly one million endpoints across more than 100 countries, achieving unprecedented visibility and consistency.
- ServiceNow: SVP Digital Business Services and Experiences Sankha Nagchoudhury revealed zero past-due vulnerabilities, a 50 percent reduction in IT operations cost, and a real-time CMDB all with Tanium at the core.
- UKG and Teleperformance: Leaders from both organizations—Lance Brown, global EVP of infrastructure at Teleperformance, and Adam Zaulyczny, senior director of strategic product incubation at UKG—shared how Tanium and ServiceNow are helping them push boundaries with AI, autonomous IT, and predictive service delivery.
“You can’t automate chaos.”UKG Senior Director of Strategic Product Incubation Adam Zaulyczny
Dan closed the keynote by reinforcing Tanium’s commitment to helping organizations remain unstoppable in an era of rapid change. The stories shared proved that success isn’t just about technology; it’s about confidence, collaboration, and preparing for a future that’s already here.
With AI-powered innovation, autonomous workflows, and real-time intelligence at the center, Tanium and its partners are shaping a future where enterprises move forward with confidence and unstoppable momentum—and the journey starts now.
Afternoon keynote: The road to Autonomous IT
After lunch, the keynote began with a customer video featuring Fujifilm celebrating their digital transformation and partnership with Tanium—a powerful way to set the stage for the afternoon sessions.
Tanium VP of Product Marketing Andy Leong then took the stage to set the tone for a deep dive into the technology behind Autonomous IT. He explained that real-time intelligence—managing the volume, velocity, and variety of data and turning it into action—is what makes autonomy possible. It all starts at the endpoint, and Tanium’s unique ability to deliver this intelligence is what sets the platform apart.
He then previewed the afternoon agenda, which featured a fireside chat with Zack Kass, global AI advisor and former GTM lead at OpenAI, alongside Harman Kaur, Tanium SVP of technology strategy and AI, followed by a Technology State of the Union with CTO Matt Quinn.
The next renaissance: AI and the expansion of human potential
Harman and Zack explored how AI is reshaping the way we work and live—not as a replacement for humans, but as a force multiplier for creativity and progress.
Zack reflected on OpenAI’s early days, explaining that science alone doesn’t change the world. In 2021, GPT-3 existed, but adoption lagged until OpenAI built ChatGPT—a simple, intuitive interface designed to help CEOs convince CTOs to adopt the technology. The lesson: usability, not complexity, drives adoption.
He compared early AI “wrappers” to market makers in financial systems, arguing that simplifying access creates real value. The challenge for builders: avoid becoming a commodity as agent-driven systems emerge.
Looking ahead, Zack introduced the concept of the agentic internet, predicting two major shifts:
- Automation boundaries and preferences: People will soon discover which decisions they want to automate and which they want to keep. For enterprises, this means defining a “preference stack” to balance efficiency with human judgment.
- A structural shift in the web: The internet will move from being HTML-driven to one shaped by TXT and XML, enabling agent-driven interactions and natural language interfaces. Devices will become wearable, displays less critical, and technology self-evident, which will help erase the digital divide.
Zack warned of a widening K curve in AI adoption, where some companies accelerate while others fall behind. He also highlighted a misunderstood truth: as inference costs plummet, intelligence is becoming a utility like water or electricity. Technology alone isn’t enough; meaningful impact requires real-world understanding and experiences that expand access.
The conversation even touched on chatbots (“basically an AOL instant messenger”) to highlight the magic in simplicity. He also predicted what’s next for AI: voice interfaces, telemetry-driven agents, and a future where machines adapt to us rather than the other way around. Additionally, he believes devices will become wearable, displays will become less critical, and technology will become self-evident, helping erase the digital divide.
“The reality is that we've built these very complex machines that work for some of us, but not many of us. And I actually think those days are coming to an end. I think that the digital divide is very nearly over because machines will effectively become self-evident in the way that communicating with another human is.”Global AI Advisor and Former GTM Lead at OpenAI Zack Kass
Zack also addressed what OpenAI got right (predicting intelligence as a resource) and wrong (underestimating societal inertia), and warned of challenges like ethical risks, bad actors, identity displacement, and the erosion of critical thinking. Humans, he argued, must compete on creativity, empathy, and conviction—not routine tasks.
“I know that I sit here because of my storytelling ability. It is not lost on me that everything I'm saying could have been a ChatGPT response… 5.1 is quite smart. This is something very comforting to me that you could get this response elsewhere, but it matters that I'm sitting here saying it, my tone, my intonation... these things, my conviction matters.”Global AI Advisor and Former GTM Lead at OpenAI Zack Kass
Despite these hurdles, Zack’s outlook was optimistic: AI will drive cost deflation, expose inefficiencies in housing, healthcare, and education, and accelerate breakthroughs in life sciences, materials, and energy—from custom gene therapies to proton batteries and fusion.
The future, he concluded, will be more human, not less, if we build technology that strengthens connection and trust.
Technology State of the Union
Matt Quinn, Tanium CTO, returned to the stage to outline the platform’s technology direction and recognize the product and engineering teams behind Tanium’s innovation. He also thanked customers for their role as partners in shaping the platform.
He reinforced the vision shared earlier: Autonomous IT is the next evolution in managing and securing endpoints: not just automation, but intelligence powered by real-time operational data, enabling the platform to sense, reason, and act across the environment.
Addressing today’s IT challenges
Matt grounded the discussion in reality by outlining the challenges customers face every day:
- Growing complexity and shrinking budgets: More devices, more configurations, and fewer resources
- A proliferation of devices and operational silos: Multiple endpoint tools with overlapping workflows create blind spots
- Difficulty achieving real-time visibility and governance: Without a unified view and built-in controls, teams struggle to act confidently and prevent small issues from escalating into major outages
Before introducing new capabilities, Matt emphasized that these pain points are what drive Tanium’s roadmap. Customers aren’t asking for abstract features. They want practical outcomes that make Autonomous IT real:
- Comprehensive visibility across the entire IT landscape
- Seamless integration across operational silos
- Intelligent automation that reduces manual effort without adding risk
- Governance built into the core, protecting the organization without slowing delivery
- Speed and scale, because environments are growing faster than resources
Tanium’s answer? Unify real-time operational data, automate intelligently, and embed governance into the platform to deliver outcomes at speed and scale.
Tanium’s commitment: Speed, scale, safety, and partnership
Matt framed these capabilities as essential for organizations facing complexity and shrinking budgets. Each represents how Tanium is evolving to help teams operate confidently and without disruption:
Speed
Matt emphasized that speed is critical for global environments where delays can impact security and productivity. Tanium is investing in capabilities that accelerate workflows and reduce manual effort:
Available today
- New CDN for Tanium Cloud: Delivers content closer to endpoints, reducing transfer times and improving patch distribution.
- IPv6 support: Extends Tanium Discover scanning coverage to modern networks, eliminating blind spots.
- Self-service account management: Available for both cloud and on-premises deployments, reducing dependency on support.
In development
- Expanded reactions: Adds support for custom triggers and response logic, enabling faster automated actions at the endpoint.
- Identity sync with Microsoft Entra ID: Automates user access alignment with enterprise identity structures, saving significant time for large organizations.
Scale
As environments grow from thousands to millions of endpoints, Tanium is focused on simplifying workflows and improving efficiency:
Available today
- Jump Gate: Introduces just-in-time access with clear, auditable workflows, replacing standing privileged access.
- CVE Naming Authority (CNA): Tanium can now identify and assign CVE IDs for vulnerabilities discovered in integrated technologies.
In development
- Threat Navigator: Consolidates threat investigation steps into a single integrated workflow.
Safety
Matt reinforced that governance and security must be built into the platform—not bolted on. Key enhancements include:
Available today
- Secure by Design pledge: Strengthening Tanium’s role in the security ecosystem.
- Semi-Annual Release (SAR) improvements: Ensures predictable, consistent upgrade paths for on-premises customers.
In development
- Anti-tamper protection for Windows clients: Prevents interference from users or other tools, improving stability.
- Global maintenance windows: Allows organizations to define master schedules for automated actions across all modules.
Partnership
Tanium continues to expand integrations to reduce manual handoffs and unify workflows:
Available today
- Integration Gallery: Over 15 native integrations in one place for easy configuration.
- ServiceNow Vulnerability Management integration: Combines Tanium Comply with ServiceNow to reduce a 15-step process to one.
In development
- Microsoft Edge for Business integration: Provides visibility into browser activity for enhanced security.
- CMDB enhancements: Adds support for new device types and real-time synchronization between Tanium Asset and ServiceNow CMDB.
“Because ultimately, we want to protect your endpoints—protect them from bad changes, protect them from attack, and protect them from downtime. But let’s be honest: the simple truth is it’s not actually about your endpoints. It’s about you, and it’s about your business—your organization. And this is the real promise of Autonomous IT: that your endpoints support your business. They process the work, they help you send those emails, they enable your productivity. And it is your business, your organization, that needs to be unstoppable.”Tanium CTO Matt Quinn
Expanding endpoint visibility
Matt reminded the audience of last year’s commitment: to expand the types of devices Tanium can see and manage. Historically, Tanium focused on core IT assets like servers, laptops, and workstations, but customers made it clear that endpoint diversity is growing, and these devices are critical to business operations.
He underscored the urgency of closing visibility gaps across diverse device types. Most management tools only cover half of an organization’s devices, leaving OT, IoT, and mobile assets exposed. The goal is clear: bring everything under one control plane, without bolt-on complexity.
“It's time to unify all your visibility and control in one place—natively. Tanium is ready to erase the separation, providing one control plane instead of several for every endpoint. One Tanium console to see it, report on it, run vulnerability scans, remediate it, and automate.”Tanium CTO Matt Quinn
Available today
- OT support via Ethernet/IP and PROFINET protocols, delivered through extended Tanium satellites—no new appliances required. Active connections ensure certainty, not guesswork.
- Microsoft Intune integration with bi-directional sync, consolidating data from multiple implementations into a single console for unified reporting and workflows.
- Apple MDM support for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS, enabling patching, compliance, and consistent reporting.
In development
- IoT device support (REST, SNMP, MQTT) for broader coverage.
- Expanded Kubernetes and cloud observability.
- Visibility into AI workloads running on endpoints and servers.
These new endpoints integrate at a foundational level: reports, dashboards, automation, and Tanium Ask all work without bolt-on complexity. Comply now matches vulnerabilities against OT devices, strengthening security posture.
Matt emphasized that this expansion required deep engineering work to extend Tanium’s identity and device recognition mechanisms, paving the way for rapid support of future device types.
“Your businesses, your organizations rely upon you for everything. Every single decision these days runs through IT and security. And this is why the shift to Autonomous IT matters. It's not about giving you a kind of a way to handle different problems. It's about looking back and saying, I can do better. That this can change and that we can use the power of AI and automation and that visibility to do something different. And that change and that core change is what we're calling Autonomous IT.”Tanium CTO Matt Quinn
Autonomous IT and AI innovations
Matt transitioned from endpoint expansion to how Tanium’s Autonomous IT approach is taking shape—powered by real-time data, automation, and AI, and already seeing strong adoption among customers:
- Over half of customers are already using Tanium Automate and other new automation features
- More than 80 percent receive actionable Tanium Guide notifications to flag and remediate issues automatically
- Over half use agentic AI features like Tanium Ask for natural language to query their environments and automate actions
Matt emphasized that expanding endpoint visibility and embedding automation and AI into IT operations is only part of the story. A revolution like Autonomous IT requires strong partners to make it real.
With that, he introduced Shawn Bice, Microsoft’s corporate VP for security platform and AI, for a discussion about how Tanium and Microsoft are working together to shape the future of secure, data-driven IT.
Microsoft partnership: A conversation with Shawn Bice
Shawn began by sharing his career journey across Microsoft, AWS, and Splunk—a path defined by a passion for data and its intersection with AI and security. He explained that graph technology, though widely referenced, is often misunderstood. At its core, a graph consists of four concepts: nodes (things), edges (relationships), hops (distance between nodes), and traversals (journeys through the graph).
Why does this matter for security? Graphs provide contextual focus for large language models (LLMs) and enable advanced scenarios like blast radius analysis. Shawn highlighted the importance of multi-source breadth-first search (BFS), a traversal algorithm rarely implemented but critical for detecting attacks that originate from multiple points simultaneously.
The conversation then turned to the synergy between graph and AI. Shawn likened enriching graphs with Tanium and Microsoft data to adding traffic and weather layers to Google Maps to illustrate how more context leads to better decisions. He emphasized that there is no single graph; rather, multiple graphs exist across networks, endpoints, and applications. And that the more these graphs are enriched, the more powerful and precise AI becomes.
Shawn underscored the role of partners like Tanium in this ecosystem. He cited the recent JLR cyber incident, which disrupted thousands of suppliers and impacted the U.K. economy, as a stark reminder of what’s at stake. “Good guys working together” is foundational to making the world safer, echoing the military concept of an overmatch strategy applied to cybersecurity.
Finally, Shawn addressed the dual nature of AI with its potential for good and its risk of weaponization. He warned that offensive AI agents could overwhelm traditional defenses, much like swarms of drones changing the dynamics of modern warfare.
This is why security teams must rethink their strategies and embrace AI-centric and agentic models to stay ahead. Collaboration and automation, he concluded, aren’t optional: they’re essential to reimagining security in the era of AI.
Matt posed the question on everyone’s mind: “Where are we with our journey? Where does the future of autonomous and the autonomous capabilities within Tanium go from here?”
With that, he welcomed Harman Kaur, SVP of technology strategy and AI, back to the stage to share what’s next for Autonomous IT.
From endpoint management to Autonomous IT
Harman reflected on the journey since last year’s launch of Autonomous Endpoint Management. She noted that many organizations have automated processes and leveraged real-time data to power those automations, and, most importantly, provided feedback that has shaped Tanium’s evolution.
She explained that this session would go beyond a retrospective—it would outline what’s available today, what’s coming next, and how these innovations move Tanium closer to a fully autonomous future.
Key enhancements and innovations
Available today
- Tanium Guide now delivers more types of notifications, including certificate expiration alerts and operational health checks (e.g., uncached files that could delay deployments).
- Guardian integrates with Tanium Automate for complex remediations, enabling users to pivot from a notification directly into a remediation workflow.
- Comply-to-Patch integration maps compliance findings to OS patches, allowing teams to add patches to cycles or create new lists with a single click.
In development
- Confidence scores are becoming more personalized, breaking down impact by OS and factoring in unique configurations for localized insights.
- Comply-to-Deploy and Comply-to-Enforce workflows will extend automation to third-party patches, leveraging rings and confidence scores for safe rollouts.
- Governance features like global maintenance windows and expanded Action Oversight will provide visibility across all automated actions and time zones.
Introducing Tanium AI
Harman then unveiled one of the most anticipated announcements: Tanium AI, available today for U.S. and U.K. cloud customers. This marks a major milestone, embedding AI deeply into the platform to anticipate needs, enhance workflows, and mobilize action all while keeping governance at the core.
Tanium AI focuses on three key areas:
1. Anticipate
Leveraging AI, Tanium will deliver even more precise insights to help organizations stay ahead of risks:
In development
- Software anomaly detection: Tanium will map installed software across your organizations, detect deviations from baselines, and alert you to anomalies.
- Guided remediation: Tanium Ask will then guide removal workflows, ensuring safe and efficient execution.
2. Enhance
AI enriches everyday tasks with intelligence and context:
Available today
- Report summarization: Generate executive summaries with key insights, potential risks, and actionable recommendations.
- Console documentation search: Ask how to perform tasks like creating maintenance windows or deploying software and get step-by-step guidance.
In development
- Sensitive data discovery in Reveal: Use plain English prompts to create patterns for locating sensitive data across your organization.
- Alert triage enrichment in Threat Response: Hover over command lines or processes to instantly reveal context, accelerating investigations. Seamlessly pivot to Tanium Ask for deeper analysis.
3. Mobilize
AI enables goal-oriented automation to complete tasks end-to-end:
Available today
- Software reclamation: Identify machines with unused software and remove it automatically, using rings and confidence score for safe rollouts.
- Device reboot orchestration: Detect endpoints that need rebooting and execute the process with progressive deployment rings for minimal disruption.
Future extensions
Harman emphasized that Tanium AI is not a standalone feature and part of the platform that will continue to evolve. She previewed upcoming capabilities that will extend AI-driven workflows through Agent2Agent (A2A) and Managed Control Plane (MCP) integrations. These enhancements will enable deeper orchestration across Tanium modules and partner ecosystems, creating a truly integrated agentic experience.
Outcomes and platform evolution: From tools to integrated solutions
After Harman’s deep dive into the future of Autonomous IT, Matt returned to the stage to connect Tanium’s vision with the outcomes that matter most to customers. He emphasized that success isn’t about assembling individual tools but solving problems through integrated solutions that deliver real results.
Echoing Dan’s earlier remarks, Matt reinforced that relying on a tightly integrated set of tools is far more effective than stitching together products with overlapping or incompatible functionality.
Bringing it all together with Autonomous IT
Matt posed a powerful question: What if every midnight crisis call could be prevented before it happened? He highlighted how Tanium’s platform bridges IT operations and security with a single agent and console, enabling queries across millions of machines in seconds and actions in minutes.
Building on customer feedback, Tanium introduced autonomous capabilities designed to illuminate and resolve issues before they escalate:
- Tanium Guardian dashboard: Real-time alerts on emerging issues so teams can assess risk in seconds.
- HuntIQ and Jump Gate: Expert threat hunting and secure, auditable sessions for pinpoint execution without standing access.
- Adaptive actions: Automated remediation with progressive deployment rings for safe, controlled rollouts.
- Tanium Guide and Benchmark: Autonomous analysis against industry standards to identify misconfigurations and plan resolutions before help desks are overwhelmed.
These innovations reflect Tanium’s commitment to making IT not just faster and smarter—but truly autonomous.
Advancing security and expanding risk visibility
Matt outlined how Tanium is evolving from incident response to full Security Operations. HuntIQ was the first step, and now advanced hunter tools like context-based anomaly detection will strengthen security posture. This marks a major move toward a richer, more comprehensive security operations suite.
Risk, compliance, and exposure management
Matt highlighted improvements in vulnerability and compliance scanning, including unified reporting for consistent risk visibility and upcoming native scanning technologies that expand endpoint coverage with minimal impact. Beyond identifying risk, Tanium enables automatic remediation through features like Comply-to-Patch and confidence-based prioritization.
Recognizing the need for a holistic view, Tanium is expanding beyond endpoints to external scanning, attack surface visibility, attack path management, and proactive policy enforcement, all designed to give organizations real-time insight into their complete security posture.
Automation and managed playbooks
To help customers create integrated outcomes, Tanium is developing managed playbooks: ready-to-use or customizable workflows for scenarios like scan-to-patch pivots and software reclamation. Combined with Tanium Automate and AI-driven orchestration, these playbooks empower organizations to move beyond individual tools toward end-to-end solutions.
“It's not about the individual modules, it's about those integrated sets of activities that all of you do bringing together different parts of the organization to solve common problems.”Tanium CTO Matt Quinn
Looking ahead
Matt previewed what’s coming in the product roadmap keynote on Wednesday: deeper security operations capabilities, expanded exposure management, and advanced automation features like Tanium Ask AI-Mode, Agent2Agent, and MCP support. These innovations are governed by strong oversight to ensure safe, seamless integration.
Closing the section, Matt reaffirmed Tanium’s steady, highly governed march toward full autonomous technology: a bold step built on visibility, control, and certainty. This evolution will transform how organizations manage risk, security, and change: always at scale, with speed and safety.
Matt ended with a powerful takeaway: “This is a path that we are on together, because it's together with the power and the promise of Autonomous IT we can build unstoppable businesses together.”
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