Tanium, a provider of Converged Endpoint Management (XEM), has announced its selection to join the Joint Cyber Defense Collaboration (JCDC) by the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The JCDC is a public-private cybersecurity collective aimed at uniting the global cyber community and staying ahead of adversaries. As a member of the JCDC, Tanium will work closely with organizations and operators from both the public and private sectors to exchange cyber threat intelligence and disseminate threat indicators to the broader IT security community.
Sam Kinch, Director of Technical Account Management at Tanium, highlighted the importance of a strong defensive cybersecurity posture to withstand attacks from foreign nation-states, criminal cyber enterprises, and opportunistic hackers. Tanium looks forward to collaborating with cyber defense organizations and leading security agencies to enhance the nation’s cyber resilience.
The Biden Administration’s cybersecurity efforts reflect its prioritization of technology modernization in the federal government. These efforts aim to strengthen the security posture of federal systems critical to U.S. infrastructure that face constant threats from highly sophisticated supply chain and ransomware attacks. This commitment is outlined in the White House memorandum M-23-18, Administration Cybersecurity Priorities for the FY 2025 Budget, released on June 27, 2023, and the May 2021 White House Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. These initiatives align the nation’s cybersecurity budget to support five pillars of the National Security Strategy: defending critical infrastructure, disrupting and dismantling threat actors, shaping market forces to drive security and resilience, investing in a resilient future, and forging international partnerships to pursue shared goals.
Matt Marsden, Vice President of Technical Account Management and Enterprise Services at Tanium, emphasized the need to go beyond historical data and focus on real-time information to outmaneuver threat actors in cyberspace. He highlighted the importance of cyber defenders having the ability to conduct live operations at scale and respond proactively to emerging threats.
Tanium currently supports five branches of the Department of Defense and numerous federal and civilian agencies. The company’s XEM platform, which utilizes a single endpoint agent, offers asset discovery and inventory, endpoint management, certificate management, unified policy configuration, digital employee experience, risk and compliance, and incident response. By leveraging Tanium’s solutions, agencies and organizations can enhance their security posture, ensure compliance, reduce complexity, decrease costs, and enhance collaboration among IT, risk, and security teams.
Melissa Bischoping, Director of Endpoint Security Research at Tanium, emphasized the power of collaboration in improving security. She highlighted the increasing scale and frequency of attacks on businesses, critical infrastructure, and supply chains. By collectively leveraging the best solutions and talent in the industry, the cyber community can strengthen responses and remediation efforts against these threats.
Tanium has recently introduced innovations to its award-winning XEM Platform, including Certificate Manager, Digital Employee Experience, and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM). The SBOM specification is increasingly mandated by federal regulators for software security and software supply chain risk management. Tanium’s SBOM helps organizations find, prioritize, and remediate emerging and zero-day vulnerabilities in the software components of applications, including open-source software embedded within application libraries.
Tanium is the industry’s only provider of Converged Endpoint Management, serving as the reference platform for managing complex security and technology environments. Its platform integrates workflows across IT, Risk, Compliance, and Security into a single platform that offers comprehensive visibility, a unified set of controls, real-time remediation, and a common taxonomy. Tanium’s mission is to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. The company has been recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for seven consecutive years and has ranked on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For for two consecutive years. Over half of the Fortune 100 and the U.S. Armed Forces trust Tanium to protect people, defend data, secure systems, and have visibility and control over every endpoint, team, and workflow.