Tanium Comply for Essential Eight – Tanium Tech Talks #117

The Essential Eight framework, developed by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), is a set of cybersecurity recommendations designed to help organizations mitigate security threats. The framework includes best practices like patching, multifactor authentication (MFA), and privilege restrictions, resulting in more than 150 controls that must be assessed for each endpoint.

In the video, Ashley and James explain an innovative way to reduce the time and effort required for complying with cybersecurity frameworks like Australia’s Essential Eight, why companies often struggle to achieve compliance, and how to simplify the process using Tanium Comply.

Key takeaways

• What is Australia’s Essential Eight framework? Learn what it entails, its importance, and common compliance challenges.
• The difference between compliance and security, and the pitfalls of manual reporting.
• How Tanium streamlines compliance using the “four C’s” — coverage, currency, completeness, and corrective action.
• How to create your own Tanium compliance solution using Tanium modules.

Noteworthy quotes

Compliance is not security… Just because you have a paper form doesn’t mean you’re really secure.

It’s been all hands on deck to get this out the door, and we’re very excited that our customers are now using [Tanium Comply]. It’s being deployed in production for a number of customers that are running on thousands of endpoints and it’s making a difference. I’m getting great feedback.

[Customers spend] hours and hours every month producing reports. And now they don’t have to think about it anymore. It’s automated. And the best part is they can show progression and improvement within their organization by putting this in place, and very quickly being able to remediate.

Additional resources

• Essential Eight solution documentation
• Custom compliance reporting walk-through video
• Achieve continuous Essential Eight compliance with Tanium’s automated solutions

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