25 Billion Endpoints By 2020, Are Your Tools Ready For This?It has been forecasted that by 2020, there will be a staggering 25 billion connected devices worldwide – almost 4 devices per person globally. Security and IT operations teams are already struggling to maintain basic awareness of all the endpoints connected to their networks, let alone inventory, secure and manage them at enterprise scale.
As modern cyber attacks continue to evolve at an alarming pace in e�iciency and frequency, security teams are still relying on ine�ective tools that are di�icult to use, provide incomplete data, expensive to scale and too slow to combat intrusions as they are happening. Furthermore, o�entimes security and IT operations teams need to join forces to fully resolve incidents, yet successful coordination is too o�en impossible due to competing priorities with IT teams preoccupied with increasingly time-consuming compliance audits and other critical maintenance tasks using their own failing solutions. This already dire situation will only get worse as the rampant proliferation of connected devices accelerates, and legacy technologies designed with outdated notions continue to deteriorate in speed, reliability and ability to scale.
Tanium Core OverviewTanium Core forms the foundation for the Tanium Endpoint Platform, which is the first and only enterprise platform that empowers security and IT operations teams with 15-second visibility and control to secure and manage every endpoint, even across the largest global networks. By providing Tanium’s patented linear-chaining architecture technology, Tanium Core enables teams to ask any question about their environment in plain English, retrieve accurate and complete data in 15-seconds, and flexibly take any corrective action directly on the endpoint as desired. Tanium Core includes basic asset inventory, control and utilization monitoring capabilities, as well as a variety of ready to use connectors making integrations with third-party systems simple and seamless. Tanium Core delivers the speed, scalability and reliability security and IT operations teams need to realize new levels of cost e�iciency and stay a step ahead of modern attacks.
Tanium Core
Key Features
Ask, Know, Act In 15 Seconds. Even Across A Million Endpoints.Tanium Core provides the backbone technology that enables teams to ask any question, confidently know what is happening right now in their environment and act directly on any or every endpoint for precise remediation and control of any kind in seconds. With its natural language parser, Tanium Core provides its hallmark feature of allowing questions to be structured in plain English, along with a minimal, cost-reducing infrastructure that not only scales to support millions of endpoints, but is also resilient to the e�ects of today’s dynamic environments and capable of navigating around o�line clients or network blockages to preserve high availability throughout the system at all times.
Asset Inventory, Control and Utilization MonitoringTanium Core provides a wide array of general-purpose tools and functionality that allows teams to accurately inventory, control and monitor the utilization of hardware and so�ware assets right out of the box. With Tanium Core, teams can better secure their environment by identifying all unmanaged assets on the network and directly maintain configurations such as firewalls, user permissions and open ports in their desired states for every endpoint. IT teams can also reduce operational ine�iciencies by having the ability to produce up-to-the-second global inventory reports for every asset with detailed information such as CPU consumption, external devices, memory usage and much more, and also reduce costs associated with preparing for sudden audits or reclaim over-licensed so�ware by accurately monitoring where they are being installed and how they are being used over time.
Tanium ConnectTanium Core includes the Tanium Connect integration layer that enriches any number of external or third-party systems like SIEMs, log analytic tools, help desk ticketing systems, CMDBs and big data clusters with up-to-the-second data from every endpoint in the environment. By addressing the narrow focus and timeliness of the data typically available to these systems, Tanium Connect enables shared visibility across both security and IT operations teams, and dramatically reduces the time to resolution for the most complex challenges these teams face in securing and managing endpoints at enterprise scale.
Enterprise Ready• Zone Servers enable every roaming machine, as long as they are connected to the Internet, to stay in contact with the Tanium Endpoint
Platform, allowing them to answer any questions or perform targeted actions as if they were on the enterprise network.
• Kerberos-based authentication leverages existing Active Directory infrastructure, credentialing and security policies.
• Role-based access control (RBAC) regulates access available to di�erent users based on their job responsibility or authority. Users can be limited from asking questions, executing existing actions, authoring new actions, authoring sensors, creating users or assigning management rights. RBAC can even be flexibly set to apply for just a select group of machines.
• 512-bit Elliptic Curve Cryptography is used for queries and actions distributed across the network to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks or other malicious behavior initiated by compromised endpoints.
Tanium Core provides security and IT operations teams the unique power to secure, control and manage millions of endpoints across the enterprise by enabling them to ask any question about their environment in plain English, retrieve accurate and complete data in 15-seconds, and flexibly take any corrective action directly on the endpoint as desired.
At A Glance● Ask any question in plain
English, and retrieve accurate and complete data across millions of endpoints in 15 seconds
● Flexibly remediate incidents or execute change of any kind across every endpoint as desired
● Precisely inventory, control and monitor the utilization of hardware and so�ware assets with out of the box capabilities
● Enrich external or third-party systems with current and feature-rich endpoint data
Data Sheet
Tanium Core forms the foundation for the Tanium Endpoint Platform.
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ABOUT TANIUMTanium gives the world’s largest enterprises and government organizations the unique power to secure, control and manage hundreds of thousands of endpoints across the enterprise within seconds. With the unprecedented speed, scale and simplicity of Tanium, security and IT operations teams now have complete and accurate information on the state of endpoints at all times to more e�ectively protect against modern day threats and realize new levels of cost e�iciency in IT operations. Visit us at www.tanium.com or follow us on Twitter at @Tanium.
Managed Endpoints Up to 35,000 Up to 150,000 Up to 400,000
Hardware Requirements(Tanium Server / Database Server)
Processor Cores (Physical)
Memory
Disk Space2
So�ware Requirements
Operating System
Database Version
16 / 8
24 GB / 16 GB
400 GB / 1 TB
40 / 32
128 GB / 64 GB
1.5 TB / 4 TB
Microso� Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2
Microso� SQL Server 2008, 2012 or 2014
80 / 64
256 GB / 128 GB
3 TB / 10 TB
Server Requirements1 Client Requirements1
● Microso� Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8 or Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012
● Mac OS X 10.5+ (Intel-only)
● Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, SUSE, Debian and Ubuntu)
● Solaris 10 10/09 “U8”+
● IBM AIX 6.1+
1 For more detailed information visit https://kb.tanium.com/System_Requirements2 Disk space requirements are approximations and actual values may vary depending on usage and use cases
25 Billion Endpoints By 2020, Are Your Tools Ready For This?It has been forecasted that by 2020, there will be a staggering 25 billion connected devices worldwide – almost 4 devices per person globally. Security and IT operations teams are already struggling to maintain basic awareness of all the endpoints connected to their networks, let alone inventory, secure and manage them at enterprise scale.
As modern cyber attacks continue to evolve at an alarming pace in e�iciency and frequency, security teams are still relying on ine�ective tools that are di�icult to use, provide incomplete data, expensive to scale and too slow to combat intrusions as they are happening. Furthermore, o�entimes security and IT operations teams need to join forces to fully resolve incidents, yet successful coordination is too o�en impossible due to competing priorities with IT teams preoccupied with increasingly time-consuming compliance audits and other critical maintenance tasks using their own failing solutions. This already dire situation will only get worse as the rampant proliferation of connected devices accelerates, and legacy technologies designed with outdated notions continue to deteriorate in speed, reliability and ability to scale.
Tanium Core OverviewTanium Core forms the foundation for the Tanium Endpoint Platform, which is the first and only enterprise platform that empowers security and IT operations teams with 15-second visibility and control to secure and manage every endpoint, even across the largest global networks. By providing Tanium’s patented linear-chaining architecture technology, Tanium Core enables teams to ask any question about their environment in plain English, retrieve accurate and complete data in 15-seconds, and flexibly take any corrective action directly on the endpoint as desired. Tanium Core includes basic asset inventory, control and utilization monitoring capabilities, as well as a variety of ready to use connectors making integrations with third-party systems simple and seamless. Tanium Core delivers the speed, scalability and reliability security and IT operations teams need to realize new levels of cost e�iciency and stay a step ahead of modern attacks.
Key Features
Ask, Know, Act In 15 Seconds. Even Across A Million Endpoints.Tanium Core provides the backbone technology that enables teams to ask any question, confidently know what is happening right now in their environment and act directly on any or every endpoint for precise remediation and control of any kind in seconds. With its natural language parser, Tanium Core provides its hallmark feature of allowing questions to be structured in plain English, along with a minimal, cost-reducing infrastructure that not only scales to support millions of endpoints, but is also resilient to the e�ects of today’s dynamic environments and capable of navigating around o�line clients or network blockages to preserve high availability throughout the system at all times.
Asset Inventory, Control and Utilization MonitoringTanium Core provides a wide array of general-purpose tools and functionality that allows teams to accurately inventory, control and monitor the utilization of hardware and so�ware assets right out of the box. With Tanium Core, teams can better secure their environment by identifying all unmanaged assets on the network and directly maintain configurations such as firewalls, user permissions and open ports in their desired states for every endpoint. IT teams can also reduce operational ine�iciencies by having the ability to produce up-to-the-second global inventory reports for every asset with detailed information such as CPU consumption, external devices, memory usage and much more, and also reduce costs associated with preparing for sudden audits or reclaim over-licensed so�ware by accurately monitoring where they are being installed and how they are being used over time.
Tanium ConnectTanium Core includes the Tanium Connect integration layer that enriches any number of external or third-party systems like SIEMs, log analytic tools, help desk ticketing systems, CMDBs and big data clusters with up-to-the-second data from every endpoint in the environment. By addressing the narrow focus and timeliness of the data typically available to these systems, Tanium Connect enables shared visibility across both security and IT operations teams, and dramatically reduces the time to resolution for the most complex challenges these teams face in securing and managing endpoints at enterprise scale.
Enterprise Ready• Zone Servers enable every roaming machine, as long as they are connected to the Internet, to stay in contact with the Tanium Endpoint
Platform, allowing them to answer any questions or perform targeted actions as if they were on the enterprise network.
• Kerberos-based authentication leverages existing Active Directory infrastructure, credentialing and security policies.
• Role-based access control (RBAC) regulates access available to di�erent users based on their job responsibility or authority. Users can be limited from asking questions, executing existing actions, authoring new actions, authoring sensors, creating users or assigning management rights. RBAC can even be flexibly set to apply for just a select group of machines.
• 512-bit Elliptic Curve Cryptography is used for queries and actions distributed across the network to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks or other malicious behavior initiated by compromised endpoints.
