Tanium Redefines Security Operations for the AI Era

Tanium , the autonomous IT company, has released a new version of its Tanium Security Operations tool to address a new type of attacker unlike any threat most security tools were designed to combat. AI now enables these attackers to act as trusted administrators, using tools already present on each machine, blending in with normal business activity, and spreading across thousands of endpoints at a speed and scale no analyst can match. Tanium Security Operations detects this endpoint-level behavior, responds to the threat level, and provides every analyst with expert-level tracking capabilities.

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Thanks to AI, hackers no longer need to use malware that could be detected by a scanner. They log in using stolen credentials and the same administrative tools that IT departments use every day. For a security tool trained to track known malicious files, this type of activity looks just like what happens during a normal workday. Detecting this kind of behavior requires knowing what normal operation looks like on each endpoint and taking action on each one as soon as a deviation is detected. Tanium already handles this work for IT teams. Tanium Security Operations applies the same approach to the attacker, working in parallel with the SIEM and EDR tools already used by the teams.

“ AI has changed the nature of attackers and the speed of their actions. The next intrusion won’t take the form of malware; it will resemble the actions of one of your own administrators ,” says Harman Kaur, CTO of Tanium. “ We’ve spent years learning to recognize what’s normal on every endpoint our customers use. We’re now leveraging that knowledge to detect elements that don’t belong in daily operations and block them everywhere simultaneously. This is how security operations must evolve in the age of AI. ”

A continuous loop of detection, response, and tracking

Tanium Security Operations relies on the same platform and real-time data used by IT teams to manage all endpoints. With this new version, detection, response, and tracking are no longer separate steps that need to be transferred between tools, but now run in a continuous loop.

• A detection tool that focuses on behavior and doesn’t just look at files known to be malicious. When attackers use the same tools as IT teams, a simple list of malicious files isn’t enough to spot them. The New Endpoint Drift feature learns the normal behavior of each endpoint and categorizes machines whose behavior deviates from the norm, allowing threat hunters to start their searches where it really matters. The new Insights Engine replaces Tanium’s process injection detection with an engine designed to spot attackers hiding within trusted processes.
• A response tailored to the threat. Without action, detection is little more than a queue of alerts. When an attack spreads to thousands of endpoints in minutes, a simple quarantine button is too rudimentary and too slow. Tanium implements a full range of responses directly on the affected endpoints, from stopping an isolated process and collecting digital evidence to isolating a host, whether on a single machine or across the entire fleet simultaneously. A new federated SOC model allows different security teams to share a single platform while defining their own removal rules and automated responses. This ensures that one team’s rules never apply to another team’s endpoints. Users define the boundaries, and every automated action remains within those boundaries.
• Threat hunting for all analysts, not just a select few experts. Most teams rarely dedicate time to threat hunting because it requires specialized skills and days of work. Tanium Atlas changes that. An analyst asks a question in plain language, gets a response from each endpoint within seconds, and then acts directly from the same interface. Search strategies developed by Tanium’s threat hunters guide each step. Tanium Atlas also examines the alert queue, prioritizes alerts, and then recommends which alerts to ignore, escalate, analyze, or contain. Teams can then use the new SecOps dashboards and templates as a starting point. With Tanium, threat hunting becomes a routine and repeatable workflow that any analyst can execute.

“ The AI-powered threat landscape has changed the dynamics of security operations ,” said Dave Gruber, Chief Cybersecurity Analyst at Omdia . “ Speed ​​is more important than ever, as the speed at which attacks execute outpaces the current mechanisms and processes implemented by security operations. Agentic capabilities can accelerate detection and response, but without access to telemetry data and near real-time response, agentic SOC capabilities remain insufficient to keep pace with attackers’ activities. Tanium’s approach, which bases threat detection and search on the real-time state of endpoints, addresses one of the gaps that is almost universally found in enterprise SOC architectures. ”

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For organizations seeking expert services, Tanium HuntIQ offers access to Tanium’s threat hunters, who utilize the same platform and AI. HuntIQ hunters operate directly within client environments to detect threats, strengthen detection mechanisms, and assist in incident response. They can launch threat hunting campaigns even before a patch or CVE is available, as demonstrated by their work on the FalconFlank zero-day vulnerability. The insights gained from their interventions are then integrated into the platform, ensuring that each subsequent threat hunting campaign begins with optimized efficiency.