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It’s Only the Beginning
“There are three existential threats that can put us out of business today,” a CEO recently told me. “Meteors, nuclear war and cybersecurity.”
Assessing What Matters in an EDR Solution
Looking back at 2015, it’s hard to dispute that the security industry has been flooded with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) products. Walk the sponsor floor at any conference or sample the white papers and marketing pitches from any vendor web site, and you’ll see the same claims repeated ad nauseam: “Prevent, Detect, and Respond” at “enterprise scale” in “real time.”
a16z Podcast: The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth
At September’s a16z Capital Summit, Andreessen Horowitz’s Ben Horowitz and Tanium’s Orion Hindawi sat down to discuss “The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth”, featured this week on the a16z Podcast.
How to Rapidly Remedy the OpenSSH Vulnerability
Last week, Qualys published a security advisory exposing vulnerabilities (CVE-2016–0777 and 0778) in OpenSSH client versions 5.4 to 7.1. When exploited, these vulnerabilities can result in the theft of private key material.
Reducing Risk During Mergers and Acquisitions
A checklist to create cross-company visibility of all systems. Mergers and acquisitions activity among the world’s largest companies has been on the upswing since 2014 with Dow and DuPont making headlines last week as the latest blockbuster merger, following names like Starwood and Marriott and AT&T and DirecTV.
How to Get to the Root of Certificate Security Risks
Dell's Certificate Authority (CA). News recently broke about Dell shipping a self-signed root Certificate Authority (CA) certificate and its private key on a wide range of Windows-based systems.
The Time to Change Federal Cybersecurity Is Now
How governments can stay ahead and recover from cyber attacks. This week, Federal CIO Tony Scott is expected to release a public report on ideas submitted from industry, government and academia to the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC), a public-private partnership, for how agencies can stay ahead of and recover from cyber attacks.
Cybersecurity Panel Key Takeaways: What Board Members Need to Know
What is cyber security risk? Tanium CFO & COO Eric Brown recently participated in a panel hosted by Nasdaq called Cyber Security: What Board Members Need to Know, alongside moderator, T.K. Kerstetter, CEO & Talk Show Host, Boardroom Resources LLC and panelists, Yafit Cohn, Associate at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett, A.J. Kess, Partner at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett and Martin Liutermoza, AVP of Information Security Engineering at Nasdaq.
In Conversation: Nasdaq’s Brad Peterson and Tanium’s Orion Hindawi on the Six Questions Every Board Must Ask Their InfoSec Leadership
When facing a massive data breach, a company’s status quo — and perhaps its very existence — can all be gone in a matter of seconds. Tanium co-founder & CTO Orion Hindawi and Brad Peterson, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Nasdaq, understand better than most that countless companies are teetering on the brink of a preventable catastrophe.
Tanium Incident Response Updates: WMI, Scheduled Tasks and Enhanced File Search
On Friday, October 30, Tanium released an updated version of our Incident Response module. I’m excited about several of the new capabilities introduced by this point update, including the ability to hunt for malicious WMI event consumers, conduct at-scale analysis of scheduled tasks and search for files at rest within seconds.
The Case for Board Cyber Risk Oversight
Enterprise risk management model (ERM). As the Audit Committee chair for a public company, I am continually evaluating the enterprise risk management (ERM) model to monitor multiple components of risk to the organization.
Helping Communities Stay Protected While Connected
Protecting the data of citizens. Smart government is truly the name of the game when it comes to cybersecurity.