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Converge 2025 Wednesday keynote insights: The future of Autonomous IT

Wednesday’s keynote delivered a dynamic mix of thought leadership, product innovation, and customer insights, diving deep into Tanium’s mission-driven roadmap and showing how the company is addressing today’s IT and security challenges while advancing toward Autonomous IT.

Day two of Converge keynotes began on a high note as Tanium Chief Revenue Officer Pedro Diaz greeted attendees and spotlighted the growing impact of the Women & Allies in Tech breakfast, now in its third year. Calling it “bigger and better every year,” he praised the voices and perspectives shared during the session.

Converge 2025 Women & Allies in Tech breakfast
Third annual Women & Allies in Tech breakfast

Pedro then turned to the day’s agenda, designed to reinforce the theme that defines Converge: being unstoppable in the face of complexity and change.

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He previewed an action-packed lineup: deep dives into Tanium’s platform innovations with SVP of Product Management Randy Menon and team, a customer panel led by Chief Customer Officer Russ Slaten, and a special conversation between CEO Dan Streetman and Academy Award–nominated actor and filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg on AI, collaboration, and resilience.

Converge 2025 Tanium CRO Pedro Diaz
Tanium CRO Pedro Diaz

The day promised not only technical insights but also thought-provoking discussions on what it takes to stay ahead.

Tanium product keynote takeaways

Leading the product keynote, Tanium SVP of Product Management Randy Menon took the stage to spotlight the critical pressures facing IT and security teams today:

  • Productivity at scale: Organizations must deliver faster, at lower cost, and across massive environments.
  • Reduce operational complexity: Decades of technology layers have created fragmented systems that teams struggle to manage.
  • Efficient safety and security: Every change must be trusted, reliable, and informed by accurate data.

To address these challenges, Randy reinforced Tanium’s core mission—protecting all endpoints with real-time intelligence by delivering:

  • Speed: Act before threats escalate.
  • Scale: No endpoint—regardless of type or volume—is left unprotected.
  • Safety: Automation and intelligence must remain trustworthy.

This commitment forms the foundation of Tanium’s vision for Autonomous IT, where threats are surfaced, analyzed, and resolved quickly by empowering teams to stay ahead in an increasingly complex environment.

Roadmap themes: Endpoint expansion, AI and automation, intelligent outcomes

The keynote introduced three strategic themes guiding Tanium’s investments to help customers move faster with more control:

1. Endpoint expansion

Tanium’s definition of an endpoint has evolved far beyond laptops and servers. Today, it includes mobile devices, edge nodes, virtual workloads, rugged operational technology (OT) systems, IoT sensors, and cloud workloads. The roadmap focuses on delivering unified visibility, control, and security across this growing universe without adding complexity.

Key priorities for this expansion:

  • OT and mobile: Extending the platform to operational technology and mobile environments, making these devices first-class citizens in the ecosystem.
  • Extending core platform capabilities: Expanding automation, AI, compliance, and telemetry so the experience remains unified across all device types.
  • Device-class expansion: Broadening coverage to include emerging and specialized hardware.

To turn these priorities into reality, we have a robust set of capabilities currently in development—each designed to extend Tanium’s reach across diverse environments while maintaining a unified, simplified experience.

In development

  • Full support for mobile management protocols, including enrollment, configuration, patching, and application management for iOS and Android, managed alongside existing endpoints.
  • Native ChromeOS integration via Chrome Device Management APIs, enabling bidirectional sync of device and user state, plus actions like update scheduling and remote reset/wipe.
  • OT asset discovery and compliance management, bringing industrial systems into the same real-time operational model as IT assets.
  • A single console and workflow for managing Windows, macOS, Linux, mobile, OT, and IoT endpoints.
  • Consistent policy enforcement and automation across diverse environments, reducing fragmentation and operational overhead.
  • Integration of IoT devices such as sensors and connected equipment into the Tanium platform for real-time visibility and security.
  • Support for edge nodes and virtual workloads, ensuring that every critical asset can be managed and secured without adding complexity.
Converge 2025 Tanium SVP of Product Management Randy Menon
Tanium SVP of Product Management Randy Menon

2. AI and automation

Randy described a shift from reactive operations to proactive, agentic workflows. Tanium is building systems that learn, adapt, and guide human actions, enabling IT and security teams to orchestrate outcomes rather than execute manual tasks.

Tanium’s investments are organized around these goals:

Accelerate intelligent operations

Moving from reactive to proactive, insight-driven decisions that happen in real time. The aim is to make the system do more of the heavy lifting so teams can move faster, with capabilities available now and others in development to keep advancing automation and intelligence.

Available today

  • Confidence scores provide real-time analysis across millions of endpoints to guide deployment decisions with clarity and reduced risk.

In development

  • Confidence scores 2.0 personalizes scores by endpoint and aggregate, update continuously during deployments, and incorporate local data for greater accuracy. Combined with real-time insights, you’ll be able to set deployment rules based on these scores, ensuring safer rollouts and fewer surprises.

Enabling agentic workflows

Workflows that go beyond automation to understand intent, adapt to context, and help achieve outcomes. This shifts IT from “run a script” to “help me solve a problem.”

Available today

  • AI-led remediation workflows through Tanium Ask provide natural language interaction for investigation and remediation. Users can ask questions in plain language, receive instant analysis and recommended actions, and stay in a conversational workflow without navigating multiple screens. These guided workflows allow for traceability, including source, reasoning steps, and explainability, along with pre-built playbooks for common scenarios, enabling faster, more confident decisions.

Operationalizing enterprise AI

Powered by Tanium’s MCP architecture and agent-to-agent communication, this ensures the right AI model is used for the right task—whether reasoning, summarization, or automation—and all models work together seamlessly.

In development

  • Tanium’s MCP Server acts as a secure broker between enterprise-approved AI applications and the Tanium platform. It exposes defined Tanium capabilities, such as endpoint visibility, configuration, patch, remediation, as callable actions for AI systems without requiring direct credentials or low-level access, so they can initiate actions like patch workflows or validate configurations all within the same interface. By centralizing policies, guardrails, and auditing, it ensures safe, governed execution at enterprise scale. Its extensible design also allows organizations to tailor which actions are exposed, to whom, and under what conditions.

3. Intelligent outcomes

The third roadmap theme is about delivering measurable, real-world results that help organizations run, secure, and scale their business with confidence. We’re also deepening our partner ecosystem to amplify this value through richer integrations, shared data, and coordinated workflows.

Tanium’s investments here center on these areas:

Intelligent endpoint management

Moving beyond systems that simply inform to systems that actively work alongside IT teams to help you run your business securely and at scale in the real world. The goal is to consolidate tasks that once required multiple tools and teams into coordinated, automated workflows.

Available today

  • AI-driven software management continuously identifies underutilized applications and recommends reallocation or removal based on organizational policies. Generate safe, ring-based rollout plans for gradual, controlled changes with human oversight.

In development

  • Confidence scores 2.0 goes further by incorporating real-time endpoint health and local intelligence for more accurate predictions, fewer surprises, and smoother deployments, even for custom packages and disconnected environments.
  • Enterprise application gallery provides a secure, curated environment for software deployment. IT can vet third-party applications before they reach endpoints, ensuring only trusted software is available while giving end users flexibility.

Intelligent exposure management

Organizations need more than visibility—they need to prioritize and reduce risk. Tanium is building capabilities to understand external attack surfaces and prevent issues before they become incidents.

In development

  • Closing the loop between assessments and configurations by sending CIS Benchmark controls into Tanium Enforce as enforceable policy objects, expanding the policy engine with system services and enhanced firewall rules, and enabling teams to consolidate baselines, map findings to enforcement actions, and automate remediation at scale with far less manual effort.

Key takeaway: Tanium is redefining IT operations by expanding coverage to every connected device, embedding AI-driven automation for faster, smarter decisions, and delivering outcomes that reduce risk and complexity at scale.

Ecosystem and simplification

With the roadmap themes outlined, the keynote shifted to the next pillar of Tanium’s strategy: extending intelligence across the enterprise ecosystem while simplifying operations at scale.

Shelly Sahani, senior director of product management at Tanium, took the stage to frame the challenge facing organizations across industries: complexity is outpacing control, technology footprints are growing faster than teams can manage, and disconnected tools keep operations reactive.

Converge 2025 Tanium Senior Director of Product Management Shelly Sahani
Tanium Senior Director of Product Management Shelly Sahani

To change that, Tanium has built intelligence directly into the platform, so infrastructure can predict issues before they become incidents, automate responses at enterprise scale, and learn from every action to get smarter over time. What makes this powerful is that the intelligence isn’t siloed—it integrates seamlessly with existing tools.

She then outlined two critical imperatives for achieving Autonomous IT:

1. Intelligence that spans the ecosystem

Insights and actions must flow across tools without friction. Tanium is embedding its real-time visibility and control into the platforms enterprises already rely on.

Available today

  • Microsoft Security Copilot integration brings Tanium’s endpoint intelligence into Microsoft’s security ecosystem, allowing analysts to ask natural language questions and receive instant answers enriched with identity context from Sentinel. This creates a unified triage experience that accelerates investigations.

In development

  • AI Agent for ServiceNow transforms IT service operations by embedding Tanium intelligence directly into ServiceNow workflows, enabling faster incident resolution and predictive service delivery.
Intelligence without simplicity is just complexity with a better engine.
Tanium Senior Director of Product Management Shelly Sahani

2. Simplification that removes complexity

Organizations need to streamline architectures and accelerate outcomes. Tanium is reducing friction through architectural improvements that deliver unified workflows and smarter automation.

Available today

  • Simplified ServiceNow architecture positions Tanium as the single source of truth for servers, mobile devices, OT systems, and Intune-managed assets, eliminating multiple connectors and manual updates. The results? A simplified architecture with smarter automation and a CMDB that is always current.
  • Integrations Gallery provides a centralized hub for pre-built connectors and streamlined data flows across SIEM, ITSM, CMDB, and security tools, replacing brittle point-to-point integrations with reliable, scalable workflows that just work.

Operational scale for partners

Shelly closed by emphasizing Tanium’s commitment to partner enablement. By handling complexity at the platform level, Tanium allows partners to build on its infrastructure without reinventing the wheel to support global enterprises, government environments, and managed service providers with faster value delivery and simplified management for our joint customers.

Key takeaway: Tanium is extending intelligence beyond its own platform to integrate seamlessly with enterprise ecosystems while removing architectural complexity. By combining real-time visibility with simplified workflows and partner enablement, organizations gain a single source of truth and frictionless automation across IT and security operations.

Strengthening the platform for scale and trust

Following Shelly’s discussion on ecosystem intelligence and simplification, the keynote moved on to the core of Tanium’s platform strategy.

Jason Ellison, VP of product management and platform portfolio lead at Tanium, outlined foundational investments designed to strengthen Tanium as the trusted control point for IT and security operations.

These investments focus on three pillars:

  1. Support automation and oversight

Moving from reactive operations to proactive, autonomous workflows while keeping humans in control at critical decision points. The goal is to automate routine tasks, accelerate remediation, and maintain governance for sensitive actions.

Available today

  • Expanded Automate capabilities like parameterized playbooks, the ability to target and run playbooks directly from Tanium Interact and Reporting, or add a deploy software step to leverage the gallery for streamlined deployments.
  • Direct endpoint connection allows for secure, low-latency access to endpoints, now migrated to Tanium protocol for reliability and reduced open ports. For cloud customers, we used this to deliver Connect Cloud to Ground for SQL Server, letting customers send data from Connect to their internal SQL instances through a Tanium Client.
  • Jump Gate enables users to directly connect and get command line access through just-in-time SSH or PowerShell with no standing credentials, orchestrated through Tanium client.

In development

  • Automate enhancements including batched endpoint actions for faster execution and triggers that allow playbooks to run automatically when endpoints meet defined criteria, which enable real-time remediation without waiting for scheduled tasks.
Converge 2025 VP of Product Management and Platform Portfolio Lead Jason Ellison
Tanium VP of Product Management and Platform Portfolio Lead Jason Ellison

2. Control change to drive outcome and action

Reducing risk and complexity when implementing changes across diverse environments. These capabilities give IT teams visibility, predictability, and control over change sequencing.

Available today

  • Jump Gate allows organizations to secure endpoint access without persistent credentials, reducing risk.

In development

  • Global maintenance windows are a unified scheduling framework for patching, deployments, and platform actions. Users can defer changes to predefined windows, gaining visibility into sequencing and reducing operational disruption.
  • Identity and endpoint reconciliation combines data from Tanium, Entra ID, and internal systems into a single unified record, simplifying asset management and reducing errors.
  • Change approval workflows driven by a robust rules engine ensures sensitive actions, such as reboots on critical endpoints, require explicit approval. This balances speed with governance and transparency.
  • Enhanced endpoint change management allows you to specify the day and time for changes entering rings to match your organizational posture and requirements.
Tanium provides that essential point of visibility and control for our customers. We have to ensure that it remains a solid foundation that both customers and partners can rely on and build upon.
Tanium VP of Product Management and Platform Portfolio Lead Jason Ellison

3. Continued stability and performance

Ensuring the platform remains reliable and performant as capabilities expand. Tanium is making foundational optimizations and introducing new technology to improve efficiency at scale.

Available today

  • Performance gains from recent optimizations delivered a 10% reduction in average memory usage and a 38% decrease in tool installation time, improving efficiency across large-scale environments.

In development

  • Tanium Script Engine is a new embedded engine that replaces reliance on external scripting languages (VBScript, PowerShell, shell), ensuring consistent execution across operating systems. Supports a Python-like syntax for easier content creation and control.

Key takeaway: These investments make Tanium the trusted foundation for Autonomous IT by uniting automation and oversight, ensuring safe change management, and boosting performance at scale.

Security Operations: From reactive defense to proactive resilience

Tanium Head of Threat Hunting Stephanie Aceves entered the stage and introduced the evolution of Tanium’s Incident Response portfolio into Security Operations (SecOps): a shift to address the entire threat lifecycle with proactive hunting, advanced detection, and real-time response. This transformation reflects the reality of AI-powered attacks: adversaries are moving faster and becoming more sophisticated, forcing security teams to evolve.

Tanium’s approach centers on three strategic focus areas:

  1. Threat hunting: Proactively pursue hidden adversaries using human expertise, Tanium Intelligence, AI, and advanced analytics to uncover threats that bypass conventional detection.
  2. Autonomous agents: Intelligent systems that continuously optimize defenses, streamline workflows, and enable real-time response at scale.
  3. Advanced detection: Sophisticated techniques to identify complex attack patterns and anomalous behavior missed by traditional signature-based tools.
Converge 2025 Tanium Head of Threat Hunting Stephanie Aceves
Tanium Head of Threat Hunting Stephanie Aceves

Capabilities driving SecOps

Available today

  • IOC Editor is an in-console OpenIOC rule creator with real-time syntax validation and instant feedback. Link IOCs to automated reactions, such as quarantining endpoints or stopping malicious processes. Analysts can also connect detection rules to automated actions, accelerating containment and reducing manual effort.
  • HuntIQ and anomaly detection automation provides baseline deviation detection that flags unexpected changes, such as new admin accounts or unauthorized services, turning outliers into actionable signals.

In development

  • Threat Navigator enables analysts to navigate massive telemetry datasets quickly, identify anomalies, and refine hunts without complex query building. Intelligent filtering and automation turn hunts into long-lasting detections, reducing repetitive work and accelerating response. Save investigations as intel documents and trigger scans, creating a feedback loop that strengthens detection engineering.
  • AI enrichment for alerts allows every alert to become context-rich, including process ancestry and behavioral insights, reducing analyst fatigue and accelerating investigations.
  • Integration with Tanium Ask means analysts can request full assessments in natural language, receiving guided workflows and recommended next steps.
  • Live Connections with AI context enriches investigations with summaries of suspicious activity and key artifacts, enabling confident response without deep forensic expertise.
In a proactive SOC, the goal is to never conduct the same hunt twice. Instead, we aim to automate these hunts into long lasting and resilient detections.
Tanium Head of Threat Hunting Stephanie Aceves

Key takeaway: The future of threat defense rests on expert hunters, advanced detection tools, and autonomous agents working in concert. Tanium’s Security Operations portfolio is designed to operationalize this approach, helping organizations move from reactive firefighting to proactive, AI-driven resilience.

Exposure Management: From fragmented tools to unified risk reduction

Tanium Senior Director, Product Management and Exposure Management Portfolio Lead Julia Grunewald introduced Tanium’s vision for transforming vulnerability management into a comprehensive Exposure Management platform designed to reduce risk through automation and intelligence.

This evolution is driven by the reality that today’s exposure management workflows are inefficient and disconnected. Organizations struggle with fragmented data and reporting across multiple tools, difficult prioritization due to inconsistent scoring and lack of context, and complex remediation that slows response and heightens risk.

Converge 2025 Tanium Senior Director, Product Management and Exposure Management Portfolio Lead Julia Grunewald
Tanium Senior Director, Product Management and Exposure Management Portfolio Lead Julia Grunewald

To overcome these obstacles, Tanium is focusing on three strategic themes that redefine how organizations manage risk:

  1. External attack surface discovery: Visibility must extend beyond traditional endpoints. Tanium is consolidating managed assets, cloud workloads, OT/IoT devices, and external attack surface data into a single, unified view that eliminates the need to pivot between tools and spreadsheets.
  2. Data-driven prioritization: Prioritization should be clear and contextual. Tanium applies industry-standard risk scoring enriched with environment-specific data, such as whether an endpoint is internet-facing or supports critical business processes, so teams can focus on the exposures that matter most.
  3. AI-powered remediation: Remediation must be fast, safe, and automated. By linking exposure data directly to AI-driven workflows, Tanium provides a clear path to resolution, guided by confidence scores and natural language recommendations that simplify decision-making.

Capabilities driving Exposure Management

Available today

  • Remediate OS vulnerabilities by displaying all outstanding OS patches grouped by the vulnerabilities they resolve, with seamless pivots into new or existing patch lists for faster remediation.
  • TLS certificate replacement enables organizations to replace certificates across their environment at scale, helping them future-proof for post-quantum security requirements.
  • Detected products pinpoints which application triggered a vulnerability (e.g., Chrome vs. Edge) for precise, targeted updates.

In development

  • Exposure management dashboard consolidates managed assets, cloud workloads, OT, and IoT devices into a centralized exposure view. Quickly identify vulnerabilities, TLS/SSL misconfigurations, application security findings, and cloud compliance issues.
  • Remediate application vulnerabilities by combining industry-standard scoring with asset criticality, lateral movement risk, and threat-informed prioritization for smarter decision-making.
  • Tanium Ask Agent for exposure management leverages a natural language interface to summarizes findings and generates recommended remediation plans, including out-of-band patch options for urgent vulnerabilities.
  • Foundational scanning improvements will leverage Tanium Index to accelerate vulnerability detection while minimizing CPU and memory impact on endpoints.
  • Validation workflows will perform targeted rescans to confirm successful remediation and close the loop with automated reporting.
We're going to evolve our remediation-focused vulnerability management into a complete Exposure Management platform with automated remediation as a central tenet, not an afterthought.
Tanium Senior Director, Product Management and Exposure Management Portfolio Lead Julia Grunewald

Key takeaways: Tanium’s Exposure Management platform is designed to move beyond visibility and prioritization to deliver automated remediation and validation, ensuring not just action but measurable success.

Following the roadmap deep dive, the program continued with an interactive session that brought customer perspectives and industry insights to the forefront.

Customer panel: Highlighting real-world success with Autonomous IT

Tanium Chief Customer Officer Russ Slaten hosted a conversation with three forward-thinking organizations—the Gates Foundation, Vanguard, and JLL—highlighting how they are leveraging Tanium to transform IT and security in an era defined by AI-driven threats and rapid change.

Breaking silos and driving efficiency

Jon Wu, senior manager at the Gates Foundation, shared how the Tanium connector for Microsoft Intune is helping consolidate management of multiple Intune domains into a single pane of glass. By eliminating console-hopping and enabling mobile device actions directly in Tanium, the foundation has achieved full cloud management and global scalability.

Jon emphasized the value of Tanium’s collaborative approach, noting that his team was deeply involved in shaping the integration during its private preview.

We manage our entire estate with just Intune and Tanium, and, as a result, we’re fully cloud managed as an environment.
Gates Foundation Senior Manager Jon Wu

Elevating security maturity with embedded expertise

Aaron Davis, manager, cyber threat management at Vanguard, described the impact of participating in Tanium program that goes beyond automated detection by embedding a seasoned threat hunter within the organization. This partnership enabled Vanguard to tailor its SecOps strategy, standardize development environments, and deploy custom signals to identify and remove unapproved code.

Aaron summed it up simply: “If I had to paraphrase it, I would say we love it,” crediting Tanium for helping his team move from reactive defense to proactive resilience.

We have to turn our analysts, our engineers from scribes to poets that can write songs across departments, across divisions and meet that objective.
Vanguard Manager, Cyber Threat Management Aaron Davis

Global visibility and automation at scale

Chris Mosteller, executive director, security engineering at JLL, highlighted how Tanium became the backbone of a global IT estate spanning tens of thousands of assets. By standardizing on Tanium, JLL gained real-time visibility and reduced cybersecurity risk across regions.

We decided to standardize on Tanium for that enterprise platform for management. Since then, we've been able to harness the full visibility, real-time intelligence of every asset at any time, which has helped us empower it and our business and also reduce our cybersecurity risk across the organization.
JLL Executive Director, Security Engineering Chris Mosteller

Chris detailed how integrations with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and ServiceNow have streamlined workflows from automated agent deployment to real-time CMDB updates, and set the stage for fully automated patching and incident response.

Looking ahead, JLL plans to expand automation into exposure management and endpoint remediation.

What does Autonomous IT mean to them?

For these leaders, autonomous IT is more than a concept: it’s empowerment, collaboration, and speed. Jon called it “empowerment and better together,” breaking silos across teams. Aaron framed it as the future: enabling analysts to move faster than AI-driven adversaries. Chris sees it as the next step in scaling automation across integrated platforms.

Converge 2025 Tanium CCO Russ Slaten and customers
Tanium Chief Customer Officer Russ Slaten; Gates Foundation Senior Manager Jon Wu; Vanguard Manager, Cyber Threat Management Aaron Davis; JLL Executive Director, Security Engineering Chris Mosteller

Together, their stories underscore Tanium’s mission: to make organizations unstoppable.

A conversation with Jesse Eisenberg

Tanium CEO Dan Streetman closed the day with an engaging discussion with Academy Award-nominated actor and filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg. Known for his sharp, human-centered storytelling, Jesse shared insights on creativity, resilience, and the evolving role of AI, drawing surprising parallels to the challenges IT and security leaders face every day.

Thriving under constraints

Jesse spoke candidly about how limitations like tight deadlines and fewer resources fuel his creativity. From writing plays during six-hour windows while raising a child to filming on modest budgets, he explained that boundaries sharpen focus and inspire originality.

I've always said that if you give me a blank page, I'll spend a year thinking of a story. But if you tell me, write a story about a guy who is allergic to pears, suddenly my mind is immediately active.
Academy Award-nominated actor and filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg

Dan connected this mindset to Autonomous IT: building safeguards and automating routine tasks so teams can focus on higher-value work. It’s about freeing people from the mundane while keeping humans “above the loop” for oversight and critical decisions, ensuring technology amplifies, not replaces, human judgment.

AI as an enabler, not a replacement

Jesse acknowledged the controversy around AI in the arts but described how he uses it as a “clerical service” to organize ideas and research, freeing him to concentrate on the human elements of storytelling. He even stress-tested ChatGPT by uploading thousands of pages of his work and asking it to write an opening scene in his voice. The result?

It got a kind of wry humor. It got kind of a self-awareness and a self-deprecation, but it just missed a soul. I don't even know how to quantify or codify it because it's so amorphous. It just missed a soul.
Academy Award-nominated actor and filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg

That gap, he said, was a relief and a reminder that technology can assist but not replace the essence of creativity.

Converge 2025 Academy Award-nominated actor and filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg
Academy Award-nominated actor and filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg

The pursuit of meaning and the importance of collaboration

Beyond technology, Jesse reflected on his constant search for purpose, describing himself as a “meaning junkie” and even revealing plans to donate a kidney. This drive shapes his work and his life.

He also stressed the importance of collaboration and stress-testing ideas early, drawing from filmmaking where multiple writers challenge each other to strengthen a story before production. “Say the worst thing about this movie now,” he explained, describing how he gathers his team before production to surface potential flaws early.

Jesse stressed that identifying problems upfront is critical: “I need to know it now. Because if I find out in a year from now when a movie comes out and the critics find it, we’re dead… It feels bad, but it feels much worse later.” This proactive approach, he noted, prevents costly mistakes and ensures the final product withstands scrutiny.

Dan likened this to IT and security operations: teams must break silos and challenge assumptions before threats materialize. “The worst organizations,” he noted, “are ones where security is like, ‘Don’t bother me, I’m busy being secure,’ and IT operations is like, ‘Get out of my way, security, I have to deliver this.’”

Converge 2025 Tanium CEO Dan Streetman and Academy Award-nominated actor and filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg
Tanium CEO Dan Streetman with Academy Award-nominated actor and filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg

Both agreed that while hard conversations feel uncomfortable in the moment, they’re essential to resilience. That mindset—addressing critical issues early—shapes how Jesse approaches creative work and how Tanium helps organizations stay ahead of risk.

Key takeaway: Creativity and resilience flourish under structure, collaboration, and the right use of technology. For IT leaders, as for artists, the goal is the same: focus on what matters most, automate what doesn’t, and work together to remain unstoppable.

Let’s become unstoppable together

Dan closed the final keynote with an inspiring message about collaboration, grit, and the relentless pursuit of innovation. He reflected on the energy and candor that filled the room throughout the week, emphasizing that these conversations weren’t just about ideas: they were about preparing for a fast-changing future.

To keep organizations, industries, and vital services moving forward safely and without disruption, Dan emphasized the need to reinforce resilience, accelerate innovation, and enable IT and security teams to act decisively. He tied this back to Tanium’s shared mission and promise of Autonomous IT: delivering clarity, trust, and real-time responsiveness so businesses remain unstoppable.

By combining real-time visibility, automated remediation, and a unified control plane, Tanium empowers teams to outpace risks, champion productivity, and simplify operations while maintaining oversight. Dan urged everyone to carry this momentum forward, enabling IT and security teams to flourish on the front lines and stay resilient in the face of constant change.

Before signing off, Dan revealed the next chapter: Converge 2026 will take place in Las Vegas, November 16–19, 2026. And with a smile, he added a playful note to cap the week: “I’ll see you on the VelociCoaster!”—a nod to the exclusive Converge attendee-only celebration at Universal Orlando Resort and a perfect metaphor for the thrill, speed, and excitement that defined this year’s event.

Converge 2025 Tanium CEO Dan Streetman
Tanium CEO Dan Streetman

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