Security leaders arriving at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026 this June will bring a crowded agenda: how to harness AI as a defensive asset while defending against its offensive uses; how to break down the siloed tools and fragmented workflows that slow response and drive up costs; and, how to keep pace with a threat landscape that is expanding faster than most organizations can track.
We feel the summit, running June 1–3 in National Harbor, Md., meets those challenges head-on through more than 110 research-driven sessions, keynotes and direct access to Gartner analysts.
This year's theme, "Smarter, Faster, Stronger ... Together," is not aspirational. It is operational. As Gartner puts it: "In an environment characterized by an expanding threat landscape, AI, tariffs, global instability and regulations, the cybersecurity community must gain and share insights faster. Together, we are smarter and stronger."
Tanium will be at the summit as a Platinum Exhibitor with a new ground-breaking solution to show.
AI won't wait and neither can security teams
CISOs heading to National Harbor are not just managing a longer list of threats. They are advancing critical priorities in spite of them: incorporating AI and agentic AI into security operations safely, consolidating a sprawling and expensive tool landscape, and maintaining full visibility across endpoint environments that grow more complex by the quarter.
The AI challenge is particularly acute. The latest generation of AI models has collapsed the time from vulnerability discovery to weaponized exploit from weeks to minutes. That is not an incremental shift. It is a structural one. Reactive point solutions built on static dashboards and fragmented workflows are no longer adequate. The question security leaders are bringing to this summit is not whether to act on AI, but how to act on it now, at scale, without introducing new risk.
Tool sprawl compounds the pressure. Disconnected platforms drive up total cost of ownership, create training burdens and slow the responsiveness that modern threat environments demand. Consolidation is a priority for most security organizations, but consolidation without capability is just a smaller version of the same problem.
Tanium Atlas: built for this moment
Tanium, a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, has invested years building something no AI model can replicate on its own: real-time, accurate telemetry across some of the world's most complex environments.
That data foundation, complete, high-fidelity and captured directly from the source across more than 36 million endpoints worldwide, is what makes Tanium Atlas possible.
The recently announced is an autonomous operating system that gives a single IT or security operator the data, guidance and reach to accomplish what once required an entire team.
Unlike traditional consoles built around fixed modules and linear workflows, Atlas is built around the individual operator. It dynamically surfaces the most relevant data, visualizations, and actions in the moment, while ambient agents operating at the system level observe the environment and surface what matters before the user has to ask. The result is a platform that moves from intent to outcome in a single, governed experience.
Built on a curated ensemble of leading AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others, Atlas is grounded in Tanium's real-time endpoint data layer and exposed through open APIs and MCP so any agent, Tanium's or a customer's, can reason and act on it.
That is the differentiator. No foundation model provides that depth of real-time endpoint context on its own.
Deep integrations with Microsoft, ServiceNow and leading SIEM platforms extend Tanium’s intelligence across the broader enterprise environment, sharpening threat correlation and accelerating response across the security stack.
In a threat environment where the window between vulnerability and exploit has shrunk to minutes, that combination of real-time intelligence, autonomous action and ecosystem depth is exactly what the summit's hardest conversations are calling for.
Meet Tanium at the summit
Visit Booth No. 309 for live demos and conversations with Tanium practitioners on endpoint management, exposure management and automated security operations response.
Attend the session, “Securing Digital Defense Through Trusted Ecosystems," from 3:15 to 3:45 p.m. on June 1 for a closer look at how organizations are building trustworthy, resilient security programs at scale.
Join the executive dinner. Tanium and ServiceNow are hosting a "Better Together" executive dinner at Osteria Costa in the MGM National Harbor. The invitation-only event is designed for senior security and IT leaders. Contact your Tanium DSA or SDR to request a seat.
Smarter, faster, stronger and ready for what's next
The organizations that will come out of this moment stronger are the ones that stop reacting and start operating with the speed and intelligence the threat environment demands.
Cyber resilience, the ability to absorb disruption, adapt and keep moving, is no longer a board-level aspiration. It is the measurable outcome of having the right data, the right autonomous IT and the right platform in place before something goes wrong.
That is also the spirit of this year’s conference, which recognizes that in a more complex and fast-moving threat environment, organizations are smarter and stronger when they can gain, share, and act on insight together.
This is what Tanium is bringing to National Harbor. We will see you at Booth No. 309.
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