SUCCESS STORY
North Carolina Department of Information Technology
North Carolina's Department of Information Technology relies on Tanium's Autonomous IT Platform to establish consistent endpoint visibility, automate routine security workflows, and coordinate cyber resilience across state agencies, counties, and communities.
Stats to prove it
The ninth-largest state in the U.S., North Carolina spans 100 counties with 11 million residents, 78,000+ state employees, and more than 168,000 managed endpoints ranging from laptops to enterprise servers across agencies, universities, and municipalities.
Managed endpoints across SecureNC participating organizations
Browser patching time reduced per month
Google Chrome versions reduced across the state
Manual interventions required for daily Chrome patching
Key takeaways
North Carolina needed to extend consistent cybersecurity capabilities across hundreds of jurisdictions—from well-resourced state agencies to counties staffed by part-time IT managers. Uneven resources and disparate tooling created blind spots that threat actors could exploit. With Tanium supporting SecureNC, participating organizations now have real-time endpoint visibility, automated patching workflows, and a shared foundation for coordinated incident response—without requiring a one-size-fits-all operating model.
Whole-of-state visibility
Tanium gives North Carolina a single platform to verify access risk posture across every participating agency—from state departments to counties, school systems, and higher education institutions.
Automated patching at scale
Browser patching time dropped from 10 hours to 8 minutes a month. Chrome now patches automatically each morning with no manual intervention, reducing active versions from 117 down to 4.
Built for any team size
The platform adapts to organizations of all sizes—from enterprise state agencies to jurisdictions where IT is managed by a single part-time staffer supported by an outside vendor.
The partnership with North Carolina and Tanium is going to make us unstoppable.
