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7 Best Practices for Configuration Management
With many organizations shifted to a work-from-home (WFH) policy for employees, configuration management has never been more important.
What Is Data Privacy Management?
Learn more about data privacy management and how having the right tools enables organizations to secure sensitive data and remediate privacy breaches.
What is performance monitoring?
Learn about performance monitoring and tools that enable organizations to monitor, manage, secure, and optimize their computers and devices' health.
What Is configuration management?
Learn about IT configuration management and the tools that define, apply, and enforce a system’s desired state across computer systems, servers, and software.
What Is Security Configuration Management?
Learn how security configuration management tools can protect against vulnerabilities, reduce risk, ensure compliance, and prevent catastrophic data loss.
What is software management?
Learn more about software management and how modern solutions improve the IT team's control and support over the organization's application landscape.
10 Ways That Tanium Makes Performance Monitoring Better
Performance management is the practice of monitoring and managing the performance of computers across an organization to ensure that employees’ work is never compromised by software or hardware problems. Most performance management products collect performance data from software agents installed on laptops, desktops, servers and other network endpoints.
How to Quickly Find and Remediate Critical Security Vulnerability in Firefox, CVE-2019-017026
Firefox 0-day CVE-2019-17026: What you can do to prepare and remediate. On January 8, 2020 Mozilla announced a critical update to fix an exploitable vulnerability seen targeting computers in the wild.
Tanium Use Case: Prevent Execution of Unwanted Applications
Application control, through whitelisting or blacklisting, reduces endpoint attack surface and is important to a well-rounded security strategy. Tanium Protect empowers organizations to restrict application execution with lightweight, natively available security controls and provides near-real-time visibility of attempted violations.
Tanium Use Case: Threat Alerting & Analysis and SIEM Integration
Heartbleed, Shellshock and, more recently, Intel AMT and Spectre/Meltdown are all examples of high-profile vulnerabilities affecting computing devices and network protocols at a level that makes them quite dangerous. No tool is designed to prevent them, let alone look for them, and most organizations don’t have a plan for them.
Windows 10 Upgrades and Servicing Made Easy With Tanium
General support and updates for Windows 7 will end as of January 14, 2020. Like any major OS transition, this is not a small undertaking for most organizations, and typically requires months if not a year or more of planning, testing, and training, plus the time to actually perform the migration.
Take Control of Your SSL/TLS Servers to Avoid Security Breaches and Public Outages
It is critical that enterprises audit their SSL/TLS servers as part of a regular security hygiene assessment process. Failure to do so can lead to security breaches and service outages.