Tanium Extends Endpoint Management Platform to Enhance Visibility, Control, and Remediation for Containerized Workloads

November 19, 2024 at 10:00 AM EST

Security, IT operations, and DevOps teams can now more easily identify and mitigate risks while ensuring compliance for containerized applications

Tanium today announced the launch of Tanium Cloud Workloads, providing real-time visibility and protection for containerized environments. Through image vulnerability scanning, container run-time inventory, rogue container identification, and Kubernetes policy enforcement, teams across security, IT operations, and DevOps can reduce their attack surface and improve the security posture of containerized workloads whether on premises or in the cloud.

As the adoption of containerized workloads increases across organizations, so does the attack surface available to bad actors exploiting their vulnerabilities. As part of the Tanium platform, Tanium Cloud Workloads reduces the risks associated with container deployments by identifying vulnerabilities and configuration issues in container images before they reach deployment. Furthermore, container inventory and analysis capabilities included in Tanium Cloud Workloads provide visibility across clusters and nodes, enabling identification of rogue containers, which can pose significant risks.

“In today’s digital landscape, managing the complexity of containerized environments is more critical than ever as businesses increasingly rely on cloud-native technologies to drive innovation and agility,” says Matt Quinn, Chief Technology Officer, Tanium. “By expanding our endpoint support for containerized workloads in the Tanium platform, organizations can now identify and mitigate risks for containers along with other endpoints, without requiring additional tooling.”

Gartner predicts that 95% of organizations will run containerized applications in production by 2028, meaning container security will be essential to safeguarding digital assets, preventing breaches, and responding to security incidents. Tanium Cloud Workloads provides unparalleled value to organizations through differentiating capabilities that strengthen overall security risk posture, including:

Real-Time Monitoring and Security for Containerized Environments: Tanium Cloud Workloads offers agent-based run-time container visibility and monitoring that detects and mitigates suspicious or unauthorized containers.
Comprehensive Vulnerability Identification Beyond Dev Tools: Tanium Cloud Workloads excels in granular vulnerability identification within container images, including third-party packages and libraries, and helps identify risks, including software supply chain attacks.
Seamless Integration and Policy Enforcement within Kubernetes: The Tanium Cloud Workloads agent integrates directly into Kubernetes clusters, enabling monitoring and automatic run-time policy enforcement. This reduces administrative overhead and ensures continuous compliance within Kubernetes environments.
Superior Visibility, Control, and Risk Management: The agent-based Tanium Cloud Workloads delivers integration, visibility, real-time data, and control. Together with the Tanium platform, this comprehensive approach ensures robust risk management.

To learn more about how Tanium Cloud Workloads deploys and protects containerized apps with detailed visibility and confidence, visit https://www.tanium.com/products/tanium-cloud-workloads/

About Tanium

Tanium delivers the industry’s only real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium’s customers include more than 40% of the Fortune 100, 7 of the top 10 U.S. retailers, 9 of the top 10 U.S. commercial banks, all 6 branches of the U.S. military, and MODs and DODs around the world. It also partners with the world’s biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

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