Autonomous patch management
When AI can find and exploit thousands of zero-days in hours—or minutes—patching at speed and scale is no longer optional. Tanium helps organizations patch confidently and stay ahead of disruption.
Time-to-exploit can now be measured in minutes
AI models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos have fundamentally changed the dynamics of cyber exploits. Vulnerabilities—new and old—can now be discovered and weaponized autonomously with alarming speed and sophistication. Security teams no longer have days or weeks to close the exposure-to-remediation loop—only minutes or hours to patch.
Traditional patching, built on manual workflows, fragmented tools, and scheduled maintenance windows, cannot keep pace with the speed of AI. Every unpatched vulnerability is now at heightened risk.
Close the exposure-to-remediation loop
Move from delayed, reactive efforts to autonomous, integrated, and comprehensive patching.
Patch with confidence—at speed and scale
Use predictive confidence scores or progressive rollouts to automate safe change.
Maintain business continuity
Apply patching autonomously and comprehensively across IT and cloud environments.
Achieve audit readiness with verifiable compliance
Keep pace with increasing regulatory requirements with automated remediation and policy enforcement.
Protect against AI exploits
Tanium closes the exposure-to-remediation loop with autonomous, integrated, and comprehensive patch management ready to handle modern AI threats.
Autonomous
As AI shortens time-to-exploit to minutes, Tanium closes the exposure window before adversaries act. Agentic workflows help accelerate investigation, prioritization, and remediation.
Integrated
A single, unified platform for IT operations and security with AI and real-time intelligence saves costs while deep integrations with existing ITSM and security tools streamline workflows.
Comprehensive
Consolidate disparate tools with a single solution to manage Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems, third-party software, and policy.
Automated patch management
with Tanium
Tanium delivers autonomous patch management by combining AI with real-time endpoint intelligence to patch confidently - at speed and scale.
Discovery and prioritization
Assess endpoint posture and patch applicability and readiness using real-time visibility across Windows, Linux, and macOS. Combine vulnerability data with endpoint criticality and Confidence Scores—based on installation success rates, crash frequency, and performance impact—to prioritize patching and focus on high-risk gaps.
With Tanium, organizations can:
Audit
Leverage live insights into endpoint status
Identify
Assign patch-ready endpoints in ring-based phases
Assess
Determine which endpoints require patch deferral
Detect
Identify anomalies and systemic issues that may affect patch readiness
Decide
Make informed decisions on patch success and impact with Confidence Scores
Patch approval & scheduling
Route proposed system changes for the right approvals and place deployments into maintenance windows to minimize business impact.
With Tanium, organizations can:
Govern
Route patch deployments through to the approval stage
Customize
Configure patch scheduling and workflows to minimize business impact
Orchestrate and deploy
Execute staged rollouts that start small and scale quickly when results meet confidence thresholds. You can define and automate the timing and process of applying software patches across endpoints.
With Tanium, organizations can:
Execute
Deploy ring-based rollouts with progression criteria
Monitor
Track and filter deployments to see which need troubleshooting
Orchestrate
Streamline complex tasks with low/no-code automation
Validate, report, and improve
Confirm successful installation, automatically detect exceptions, and update dashboards and audit evidence. Tanium tracks patch success, exceptions, and performance metrics in real time and offers detailed reporting to support future process improvements to targeting, timing, and sequencing for the next cycle.
With Tanium, organizations can:
Evaluate
Understand post-deployment insights including success rate, crash frequency, and anomalies
Validate
Confirm patch status and identify systems that failed to update
Monitor
Track endpoint health and performance sentiment
Report
Generate reports at both organizational and device levels
Iterate
Refine targeting, timing, and sequencing for the next cycle
“Read MoreWith [Tanium] Automate, we’re able to patch a data center—which would normally take about a week—in just a few hours.
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More resources
Ultimate Guide to Endpoint Management
This guide serves as an introduction to endpoint management, providing a foundational overview for IT and cybersecurity professionals of all skill levels.
Claude Mythos security risks: What the Anthropic System Card tells us
Mythos security risks explained, including Claude Mythos capabilities, shortens exploit timelines, and what the evidence means for defenders.
Tanium Autonomous Endpoint Management (AEM)
Empowering organizations to efficiently mitigate risk while maintaining operational resiliency, Tanium AEM leverages real-time insights from Tanium cloud-managed endpoints to recommend and automate endpoint changes safely and at scale.
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Tanium Autonomous IT Platform
Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT operations and security teams to identify, manage, and execute change safely and reliably—at scale, with confidence, and in real time.