About Tanium
Tanium was founded in 2007 by David Hindawi and Orion Hindawi, based on the observation that large enterprises with hundreds of thousands of individual computers, servers, and other endpoint devices across their organization historically struggled to get accurate, real-time visibility into the security status, software inventory, and configuration of all these devices simultaneously, since many traditional enterprise IT management tools were architected in ways that made querying and updating information across an extremely large number of endpoints simultaneously slow, unreliable, or impractical at the scale very large global enterprises require, often taking hours or days to get a complete, accurate picture across an entire large organization's device fleet rather than the real-time visibility increasingly necessary to respond effectively to fast-moving security threats.
Tanium's platform uses a distinctive peer-to-peer-style architecture that lets it query and manage extremely large numbers of endpoints, potentially spanning hundreds of thousands or even millions of individual devices across a very large global enterprise, with unusually fast response times compared to some more traditional, centralized endpoint management architectures, letting IT and security teams get accurate, real-time visibility into device security status, software inventory, and configuration compliance across their entire device fleet within seconds rather than the much longer delays that some legacy endpoint management tools require at comparable scale. This real-time visibility and control capability has proven particularly valuable during active security incidents, when security teams need to quickly understand which specific devices across a very large organization might be affected by a given vulnerability or active threat, and need the ability to quickly deploy remediation actions across potentially very large numbers of affected devices simultaneously. Tanium's customers span very large global enterprises and government agencies with extremely large device fleets where this kind of real-time, at-scale endpoint visibility and management capability provides particularly significant value given the scale and complexity involved. The company has raised very substantial venture funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Institutional Venture Partners, and TPG, reaching a reported valuation exceeding $9 billion based on its most recent funding round, according to PitchBook data.
