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How to Get to the Root of Certificate Security Risks
Dec 2, 2015

Dell's Certificate Authority (CA). News recently broke about Dell shipping a self-signed root Certificate Authority (CA) certificate and its private key on a wide range of Windows-based systems.

The Time to Change Federal Cybersecurity Is Now
Dec 1, 2015

How governments can stay ahead and recover from cyber attacks. This week, Federal CIO Tony Scott is expected to release a public report on ideas submitted from industry, government and academia to the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC), a public-private partnership, for how agencies can stay ahead of and recover from cyber attacks.

Cybersecurity Panel Key Takeaways: What Board Members Need to Know
Nov 5, 2015

What is cyber security risk? Tanium CFO & COO Eric Brown recently participated in a panel hosted by Nasdaq called Cyber Security: What Board Members Need to Know, alongside moderator, T.K. Kerstetter, CEO & Talk Show Host, Boardroom Resources LLC and panelists, Yafit Cohn, Associate at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett, A.J. Kess, Partner at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett and Martin Liutermoza, AVP of Information Security Engineering at Nasdaq.

In Conversation: Nasdaq’s Brad Peterson and Tanium’s Orion Hindawi on the Six Questions Every Board Must Ask Their InfoSec Leadership
Nov 5, 2015

When facing a massive data breach, a company’s status quo — and perhaps its very existence — can all be gone in a matter of seconds. Tanium co-founder & CTO Orion Hindawi and Brad Peterson, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Nasdaq, understand better than most that countless companies are teetering on the brink of a preventable catastrophe.

Tanium Incident Response Updates: WMI, Scheduled Tasks and Enhanced File Search
Nov 4, 2015

On Friday, October 30, Tanium released an updated version of our Incident Response module. I’m excited about several of the new capabilities introduced by this point update, including the ability to hunt for malicious WMI event consumers, conduct at-scale analysis of scheduled tasks and search for files at rest within seconds.

The Case for Board Cyber Risk Oversight
Oct 28, 2015

Enterprise risk management model (ERM). As the Audit Committee chair for a public company, I am continually evaluating the enterprise risk management (ERM) model to monitor multiple components of risk to the organization.

Helping Communities Stay Protected While Connected
Oct 15, 2015

Protecting the data of citizens. Smart government is truly the name of the game when it comes to cybersecurity.

The Global State of Information Security
Oct 12, 2015

As a Senior Associate, I worked closely with customers at PwC to collect information for their yearly Global State of Information Security Survey (GSISS). A decade later, I was excited to receive a copy from PwC, one of Tanium’s partners.

Improving Federal Cybersecurity Is a Shared Responsibility
Oct 1, 2015

Today marks the start of National Cyber Security Awareness Month and the fifth anniversary of the Stop.Think.Connect campaign, the federal government’s initiative to educate Americans on how to be safer online. To demonstrate the gravity of our current cyber security landscape, simply start asking around.

Counting the Experiences and Not the Years
Sep 24, 2015

Today I was named one of this year’s most influential people in business under 40, a recognition I’m honored — and humbled — to receive. To be honest, it feels a bit odd to receive this kind of attention.

Fueling Innovation Through Our Customers
Sep 2, 2015

The origin story. David and I started Tanium in 2007 because of a problem that was simple in concept and gargantuan in reality: our customers were asking us to do things we didn’t know how to do.

On the Hunt With Modern Cyber Hunters
Jul 27, 2015

Q&A with David Damato and Kris McConkey. Tanium Chief Security Officer David Damato and PwC UK Cyber Security Partner Kris McConkey have spent their careers on the front lines of the fight against cyber criminals within the networks of the world’s largest companies and institutions.