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Tanium

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Tanium defends every team, endpoint and workflow against the largest attack surface in history by delivering the industry’s first convergence of IT management and security operations with a single platform under a new category, Converged Endpoint Management (XEM).

Key Facts

Benefits

  • Unique academic unlimited site licence
  • Simplified product bundle
  • Simple preferential pricing model based on Jisc HE Banding
  • Choice of two or three-year licence with annual or upfront payments
  • Additional modules can be added at any time

Important dates

Agreement start: 26 May 2025

Agreement end: 25 May 2028

Invoice date: If an institution opts for annual payments, invoices will be issued three months in advance of the licence anniversary date.

Commitment Period

Institutions may participate in the Agreement at any time during the agreement period, and are bound by its Terms and Conditions, including payments, until the end of the Licence Period.

Licence type

Site Licence.

Trial

Contact Chest Help for more information.

 

Eligible Institutions

Higher and Further Education and Research Councils in the United Kingdom, and to Universities and Colleges of Further Education in Ireland.

Other organisations (including Further Education / Research Councils / Colleges) aligned with Jisc's charitable objectives of supporting education, research bodies and the public sector may ask to participate in the Agreement. Jisc will liaise with the Supplier about any such requests.

Background Information

This is the second term for the Tanium Chest Agreement. Universities have been very positive in their feedback about this Agreement, not available to commercial customers and offering significantly discounted pricing.

Product Information

Supplier Details

Licensor: Tanium UK Limited, a UK corporation with company number 09335968, having its principal place of business at 2nd Floor South 100 Brook Drive, Green Park, Reading, Berkshire, England, RG2 6UJ.

Product Description

The Tanium Chest Agreement is made up of the following:

  • A base bundle, available on Tanium Cloud, comprised of:
    • Tanium Core - The Core Platform, including hosting and support
    • Tanium Discover - For finding all IP connected devices across your environment
    • Tanium Asset - For collecting all asset data to build a mini CMBD
    • Tanium Comply - For vulnerability scanning and compliance
    • Tanium Patch - For patching multiple operating systems
    • Tanium Deploy - For software deployment and automated 3rd party application updates
    • Tanium Impact - For understanding possible lateral movement opportunities for a hacker 

  • Training and Exams
    • A range of 35 different training courses and exams
  • Enterprise Services
    • Purchase additional hands-on support from Tanium by day or by week

Deployment Service is a mandatory purchase for all new customers

With the exception of Deployment Service (see above) all modules can be added at any time.  Payment will be pro-rated for additional modules, although the minimum term will be 6 months.

Please see below for descriptions of these products

Tanium Base Bundle (referred to as “Tanium Base”).

Tanium base is designed on the needs of organisations in the sector. 

Through Tanium's patented linear chain architecture, organisations area able to discover and understand all IP connected devices, whether on campus, or at home. 

Devices can then be brought together to create a better understanding of the entire environment. Software installed is then clear with detailed usage. All vulnerabilities across the estate can then be realised, giving a clear and rapid review of the threat landscape. 

Operating systems can be patched and 3rd party applications can be updated (in an automated manner_ using the same agent, in the same console, in the cloud with zero infrastructure. 

Plain language answers from plain language questions makes this management and understanding of machines fast and easy. Tanium gives real time, trusted data to all staff across all IT teams to make corrective decisions as a group. 

APIs can be used to integrate with third-party and in-house solutions such as ITSM products. 

Tanium Reveal Module. Tanium Reveal helps to enable organizations to detect sensitive data at rest on endpoints. 

Tanium Enforce. Tanium Enforce enables unified endpoint management and security by providing centralized policy management across operating system, application, and security for Windows and macOS environments that are on-premise, remote, or cloud-based.

Tanium Performance Module. Tanium Performance helps to enable organizations to efficiently monitor, investigate, and remediate endpoint performance issues at scale.

Tanium Integrity Monitor Module. Tanium Integrity Monitor helps to enable organizations to continuously monitor critical operating system, application, and log files at scale, while providing the ability to link file integrity monitoring with active alert investigation, configuration compliance, vulnerability scanning, and other aspects of endpoint management and security.

Tanium Investigate

Tanium Engage

Tanium Benchmark. Tanium Benchmark provides industry comparisons for common enterprise risk, security, and operations metrics. Security continues to be a board-level issue, and Benchmark gives teams the context necessary to highlight areas of good performance and show opportunities for investment. Metrics are updated daily to ensure that both your progress and the industry benchmark are based on the most up-to-date data.

Tanium Threat Response Module. Tanium Threat Response helps to enable organizations to detect, investigate, and respond to threats and compromise with speed and scalability.

Tanium Certificate Manager. With Tanium Certificate Manager, you can gain complete visibility into the digital certificates across your Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints. With weak encryption and expired certificates, endpoint communications are at risk of interception critical business service outages. You can use Certificate Manager to find and alert on expired or expiring certificates and for visibility into certificate encryption strength.

Certificate Manager provides dashboards, reports, sensors, and packages that you can use to:

  • Find expired or expiring certificates
  • Identify weak cryptographic algorithms and key lengths
  • View self-signed and unauthorized CA certificates
  • Inventory TLS ciphers for listening services
  • Send reports with certificate details using Tanium™ Connect

https://www.tanium.com/products/tanium-certificate-manager/

Tanium Provision.  Provision provides bare-metal provisioning of Microsoft Windows or Linux to on-premises and internet-connected devices. It also enables re-imaging outdated or broken devices.

https://docs.tanium.com/provision/provision/overview.html

Tanium SBOM.  Tanium SBOM allows you to know all your software supply chain vulnerabilities in seconds

https://www.tanium.com/products/tanium-sbom/

Tanium Training Modules & Exams.  Please click here for a PDF summary of the courses and exams currently available.

Useful Resources

We will continue to update this page as and when we receive new content.  The new content will always be added at the top of the page.

How Tanium is Increasing Efficiency & Reducing Cyber Risk for The UK Public Sector

Read their Customer Impact and Value Report here.

Tanium Gives Certainty to U.K. Institutions of Higher Learning

Hear from IT leaders from some of the United Kingdom's top universities on the challenges they face and how they support their institution's mission of higher learning with help from Tanium

Tanium Provision

For customers and potential customers who are currently testing Tanium's provision module, the following video is a walkthrough of Bare Metal Provisioning of Windows and Linux machines. Click on the below image to watch. 

Tanium and Oracle Java

Check out the below video, released by Tanium in January 2024, on how Tanium can help find all instances of Java within your institution.  Click on the below image to watch.

Snip of screen for video

 

Tanium Podcasts

This is a series of new podcasts from Tanium specifically focusing on the UK education sector! More podcasts are due to be added.  In Tanium's own words:
"At Tanium, we live, dream, and debate cybersecurity 24/7. Now, with TANIUM PODCAST, you’re in on the conversation. Go behind the scenes with our team leaders, partners, and customers in the U.S., UK, Europe, Asia, and elsewhere around the globe. We’ll discuss the latest products, perspectives, and success stories at Tanium, an innovator in security software and the industry’s only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM)"

Find the podcasts here.

 

Tanium Newsletter

Subscribe to Tanium's newsletter to get the latest from the Tanium blog and Focal Point magazine straight to your inbox. Each week, you’ll receive the most current thought leadership, industry news, and cyber threat intelligence for IT security and operations.   Click here to sign up.

Cyber Essentials Video

Click on the below image to view Tanium's Cyber Essentials video from January 2023, uploaded to Chest's YouTube page.  It's only two minutes long, a nice succinct summary of how Tanium can help.

Screenshot from video

How Canterbury Christ Church University Improved Visibility into Endpoint Vulnerabilities 

Canterbury Christ Church University improved its security posture and staff efficiency by using Tanium's platform using real-time visibility, automation, compliance and reduced vulnerabilities. Read more here on the valuable findings and solutions Tanium provided for Canterbury Christ Church.

How Tanium helped the University of Salford gain visibility of assets and combat cybercrime.

When Covid-19 struck, the University of Salford knew they were facing serious risks and threats of cybercrime due to the sudden switch to remote working and learning.

To combat this, Salford used the Tanium platform to get a comprehensive visibility of assets. This revealed hundreds of shadow IT endpoints, identified thousands of missing critical patches and vulnerabilities while also establishing real-time visibility into its 5,000 on-premises, remote, and cloud-based assets. Click here to read more on the valuable findings and solutions Tanium provided for the University of Salford.  

Tanium User Documentation

This content is aimed at users accessing the Platform

Tanium Deployment Service

Please click on the below to learn more about the Deployment Service offered by Tanium

Front cover of Tanium PDF

Tanium Community

The Tanium Community is where customers can be part of and ask the community questions and search for information

Tanium Data Protection Terms

Tanium's data protection terms are here.

How and where is the data hosted. 

Service and Support

Trials

Contact Chest Help for more information.

Product Documentation

Available.

Training and Training Materials

Further information on both free and paid training options can be found via the "Training" tab.

Training Catalogue which can be found on https://www.tanium.com/training/

There is also a public course schedule (a few clicks in)

Technical Support

Institutions in Jisc band 1 are provided with a Tanium support resource which may comprise engineers/TAMs (dependent upon the nature of the customer request) who can:

  • Provide advice on Licensed Software/Service roll-out/implementation.
  • Define an upgrade path based on business need
  • Liaise with the End User with respect to Licensed Software/Service issues and resolution.

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Details of system releases and/or new versions and/or new supporting documentation will be notified.

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