Tanium Collaborates with IBM to Provide Endpoint Manageability, Security and Compliance for Regulated Industries

Tanium, the provider of unified endpoint management and security built for the world’s most demanding IT environments, announced it is working with IBM to create a security and compliance monitoring solution for hybrid cloud, creating an easy path to verify and validate compliance for highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services and government. IBM Cloud customers can access Tanium-delivered compliance monitoring for continuous, real-time visibility across endpoints everywhere. This collaboration is designed to enable customers to manage and protect their mission-critical workloads in a distributed hybrid cloud environment.

Agility is a key requirement for every industry and adopting a strong hybrid cloud strategy is a key enabler of that agility. For financial services, healthcare and government organizations, however, meeting regulatory requirements and addressing security exposures continue to be concerns for cloud adoption. Because most public cloud environments are still hardening their compliance and security instrumentation, regulated industries find they spend too much time, effort and money to obtain complete and consolidated audit evidence for cloud workloads. This is why, as recently as 2017, a Reuters analysis found that 80 percent of financial transactions and 95 percent of ATM transactions still ran on premises.

“For financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and government organizations in particular, regulatory requirements and security concerns continue to be an obstacle for cloud adoption,” said Howard Boville, senior vice president, IBM Hybrid Cloud. “Highly regulated organizations often face the need to choose between spending significant time, effort and money to obtain audit evidence for the workloads they migrate, or not modernizing at all. We are working with our ecosystem partners to deliver solutions that can help clients modernize in an efficient and secure way. Tanium is one of our key partners that brings deep knowledge of endpoint security and compliance, and by making that information readily available in a hybrid cloud environment, we’re aiming to ease these challenges for our clients.”

Tanium and IBM are collaborating to provide highly regulated industries, such as financial services, a consistent approach for real-time visibility, security and compliance to help them benefit from hybrid cloud transformations. Gartner predicts* that, “by 2023, companies that earn and maintain digital trust with customers will see 30% more digital commerce profits than their competitors.”

Moving forward, IBM expects to integrate Tanium’s capability into its Security and Compliance Center that provides continuous compliance assessment, enforcement and remediation that organizations can leverage within the IBM Cloud.

“Tanium works with the majority of the Fortune 100, and the largest banks, healthcare companies and governments globally. Our large customers all have complex regulatory compliance requirements, which are often their biggest inhibitors to cloud-enabled modernization,” said Orion Hindawi, co-founder and CEO, Tanium. “Through our collaboration with IBM, we’re helping our customers get the comprehensive visibility and control they need across the compute assets in their environment, both on premise and in the cloud. As a result, Tanium’s platform seamlessly integrated with IBM’s strong compliance framework will help customers to satisfy their regulatory needs, and let them accelerate the massive benefits cloud migration can provide them.”

To learn more about how Tanium is enabling hybrid cloud management and security, visit https://www.tanium.com/cloud-infrastructure.

*Gartner, “The State of Privacy and Personal Data Protection, 2020-2022”, Nader Henein, et al, 26 August 2020.

About Tanium
Tanium offers a unified endpoint management and security platform that is built for the world’s most demanding IT environments. Many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated organizations, including nearly half of the Fortune 100, top retailers and financial institutions, and six branches of the US Armed Forces rely on Tanium to make confident decisions, operate efficiently and effectively, and remain resilient against disruption. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list of “Top 100 Private Companies in Cloud Computing” for five consecutive years and ranks 10th on FORTUNE’s list of the “100 Best Medium Workplaces.” Visit us at www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.