Benchmarking IT Risk with Tanium

The attack surface has rapidly expanded in recent years due to digital investments designed to support hybrid work, streamline processes and enhance end-user experiences. Many government organizations are experiencing an out-of-control attack surface full of unmanaged endpoints and minimal visibility, making patch and configuration management challenging.

State and local government agencies cater to several different needs across the country with diverse budgets, resources and capabilities. It is important that cybersecurity professionals within these agencies can contextualize security metrics to those outside of IT to communicate the need for investments. Industry benchmarking enables cybersecurity teams to compare and prescriptively improve IT risk metrics against industry peers and best practices. Tanium Benchmark provides industry comparisons for common enterprise risk, security and operations metrics and allows organizations to define goals for those metrics. By defining these goals, organizations can measure improvement over time against both industry peers and their own stated targets. In this Tech Spotlight, you'll discover:

• Challenges that government agencies face with measuring IT risk
• How agencies can solve these challenges with real-time, actionable insight and metrics
• Additional resources to help IT leadership minimize their attack surface and meet organizational risk reduction goals