Streamline Your Security with Remediation Visibility

In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, timely remediation of vulnerabilities is crucial to maintaining robust security. Yet, many organizations struggle with prioritizing and addressing critical vulnerabilities efficiently, leaving their systems and IT infrastructure exposed.

Enter Remediation Visibility, a powerful new automated workflow in Tanium Comply that transforms how organizations approach vulnerability management, exposure management, and security remediation.

Bridging the gap between IT and security teams

Effective remediation requires seamless collaboration between IT operations and security teams. Traditionally, organizations have struggled with this due to siloed processes and disconnected applications and utilities. Remediation Visibility addresses this challenge by combining vulnerability findings from Tanium Comply with unscheduled patches from Tanium Patch, providing a unified view of critical remediation priorities.

The integration does more than just surface vulnerabilities — it creates alignment between IT and security teams, enabling them to collaborate toward their shared goal of reducing risk and strengthening security posture.

3 key features of Remediation Visibility

1. Highlight top 5 unscheduled patches: Focus your efforts on the most impactful remediation actions. Remediation Visibility identifies and prioritizes a list of the top five unscheduled patches that can resolve the most critical vulnerabilities as identified by the customer’s configurations. By prioritizing these patches, IT teams can swiftly address high-severity issues that pose the greatest risk.
2. Actionable patch impact analysis: Understanding which vulnerabilities may be resolved by a patch is crucial for effective remediation. This feature allows teams to delve into each patch action, providing detailed insights into the vulnerability findings that will be resolved. This clarity ensures no critical issues are overlooked.
3. Automated intelligent remediation: The traditional approach of navigating between multiple security systems is now a thing of the past. Remediation Visibility introduces a seamless, automated transition capability that allows administrators to move effortlessly from Tanium Comply directly into Tanium Patch without the need for manual system switching or context changes.

This sophisticated integration eliminates the friction typically associated with cross-platform operations, enabling security teams to work more efficiently. The streamlined workflow significantly enhances the remediation process by providing a fluid experience for adding carefully reviewed patches to patch lists and implementing necessary security measures.

By removing the traditional barriers between vulnerability assessment and patch deployment, organizations can achieve notably faster remediation cycles, ultimately reducing the window of exposure to potential security threats.

How Remediation Visibility works

The process is simple yet powerful. With both Tanium Comply and Tanium Patch running on endpoints:

• Vulnerability scans in Comply detect endpoints affected by specific Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs).
• If an unscheduled patch exists that addresses a detected CVE, the information is displayed on the Remediations page.
• Administrators can review actionable findings grouped by unscheduled patches and either deploy the patches or add them to block lists directly within Tanium Patch.

Two main tabs on the Remediations page make navigation intuitive:

1. Patches tab: Lists aggregated findings and organizes them by patch. Teams can quickly identify patches that resolve multiple vulnerabilities and drill down to review specific details.
2. Actionable Findings tab: Offers granular data on each finding, including patch severity, CVE details, endpoint information, and more. Advanced filters help tailor the view to meet specific criteria, ensuring that administrators can prioritize and segment effectively.

Enhancing collaboration and reducing risk

With Remediation Visibility, organizations gain the ability to seamlessly integrate and consolidate vulnerability findings with comprehensive patch management data in a unified platform. This strategic integration facilitates enhanced cross-team collaboration by breaking down traditional operational silos between security and IT teams. The resulting alignment creates a more coordinated approach to vulnerability and exposure management, where security issues are methodically evaluated and prioritized according to their potential risk impact and severity levels.

This systematic prioritization framework enables organizations to execute remediation efforts with greater speed and precision, ultimately leading to more efficient and effective vulnerability management processes. The streamlined workflow not only accelerates the time-to-remediation but also ensures that critical security issues receive immediate attention, creating a more robust and responsive security infrastructure.

By highlighting critical issues and providing actionable insights, this feature empowers IT and security teams to act decisively, reducing the time vulnerabilities remain unaddressed. The result is a more secure environment, better protected against potential exploits.

Prerequisites for using Remediation Visibility

To take advantage of this feature, the following Tanium modules are required:

• Tanium Comply
• Tanium Patch

Ensure both Comply and Patch scans are active on endpoints, and appropriate role-based access control (RBAC) privileges are in place for viewing and managing findings and patches.

Driving security excellence

Remediation Visibility represents a significant advancement in vulnerability and exposure management. By integrating actionable insights with automated workflows, organizations can close the gap between detection and remediation, strengthening their overall security posture.

In the face of rising cyber threats, the ability to act quickly and efficiently on critical vulnerabilities is no longer optional — it’s essential. With Remediation Visibility, Tanium users have the tools they need to prioritize, collaborate, and remediate with confidence.

Discover how Remediation Visibility can transform your approach to security and help you stay ahead of threats. Let’s build a safer digital future together.

Visit our Resource Center for the technical details of Remediation Visibility.

Tanium AEM represents the pinnacle of modern IT management solutions giving operators confidence as they deliver high-value changes safely and reliably into their environments. We invite you to join us as we lead the way in autonomous endpoint management innovation and look forward to helping you discover how Tanium AEM can take your organization’s IT operations and security to the next level.

• Learn more about Tanium AEM at Converge 2024 On Demand
• Register for this informative webinar: Scaling IT and Security Execution with Autonomous Endpoint Management (AEM)
• Read more about Remediation Visibility at the Tanium Resource Center
• Current Tanium customers can check out these AEM training modules (Note: Tanium Learning Center account required)
• See a quick end-to-end demo of Tanium AEM
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