Malicious actors attack an end-user device every 30 seconds and their arsenal of hacking tools is growing increasingly sophisticated and hard to detect. 

Organizations are helpless against targeted cyber-attacks if they rely on fragmented IT security solutions that only report incidents that have occurred in the past. IT security statistical investigations show large organizations need between 150 days and 287 days to detect a data breach, with figures varying by industry.

Proactive threat detection in real-time is key to detecting cyber-security incidents as they occur on organization endpoints. Tanium Threat Response is a tool that monitors an entire IT ecosystem for suspicious files, misconfiguration of registry settings and other security risks while alerting security teams in real-time.

Tanium Threat Response uses advanced file intelligence methods to detect both malicious and suspicious files across an ecosystem and automates Indicator of Compromise (IOC) detection on each endpoint, even if the system is offline.

A combination of threat detection technologies with customizable whitelists and blacklists that update file reputation data in real time, enables a security team to have a broad view over the state of their IT security while prioritizing response to advanced threats which require expert action and attention.

How Tanium Threat Response Protects Against Cyber-Threats

IT security teams must handle a growing number of automated and targeted cyber-attacks, as well as increasing sophistication of tools applied by ill-intended actors. As a result, security response teams need to monitor endpoint activities to respond immediately to a threat and record selected activities for further analysis.

Tanium Threat Response enables teams to track changes in the file system and the registry while recording endpoint activities associated with network connections. The product works at kernel level and monitors security events at both endpoint and at enterprise-wide level.

The state of cyberthreats requires a proactive approach and Tanium Threat Response allows IT experts to take the necessary actions to remediate a threat or actual incident in real-time, following a threat detection.

• Actions include but are not limited to:
• Killing malicious processes
• Closing unauthorized network connections
• Resetting user access rights and alerting users about specific events.

Along with these proactive measures to quarantine and remediate a possible threat, you can make your systems safer by deploying patches, repairing registry keys, uninstalling applications and making configuration updates.

Tanium Threat Response also allows you to capture specific files for analysis or to prevent them from harming your computer network.

Additionally, Threat Protect offers a broad set of features to detect known and unknown threats, quickly respond to IT security incidents and improve business continuity by using tools to recover systems to normal business operations as quickly as possible.

Core Features of Tanium Threat Response

A comprehensive business continuity strategy involves detailed remediation measures and it all starts with detecting actual and potential threats.

Threat Response looks for malicious behavior on endpoints in real-time, alerting security teams about potentially harmful processes. The software enables teams to perform reputation analysis by comparing file hashes and loaded modules against custom-made blacklists of malicious software or by connecting to blacklists created and updated by third-party security researchers such as Palo Alto Wildfire, ReversingLabs and Google’s VirusTotal.

As a result, organizations can monitor and control indicators of compromise for all processes they run on an endpoint as well as files that launch with auto-run and loaded software modules.

This proactive threat response approach minimizes risk of a malicious code running on a system, but organizations will still need a tool to assess how their systems are performing over time. By keeping track of key activities across their entire IT ecosystem, Threat Response enables teams to perform enterprise-wide forensic and historical analysis on specific activities and processes of interest to them as well as to analyze both real-time and historical user behavior.

Once security teams have identified a threat, in real-time or in historical perspective, Threat Response provides the tools to isolate the compromised endpoint and stop the malicious code from spreading across a network or leaking sensitive data. The software provides the means to check an endpoint for evidence of compromise in real-time, following an alert or at the IT team’s discretion.

Advanced Features of Tanium Threat Response

Modern cyberthreat detection tools are not effective in isolation, as they need to be remediated, analyzed, and searched for related incidents.

In this context, Threat Response equips organizations with functionality for threat alerting as well as remediation and trending of incident-related data by integrating with additional software such as Tanium Connect, Tanium Protect and Tanium Trends.

Threat Response uses Tanium Connect module to export file hash information to reputation service providers, which enables teams to receive reputation status immediately. Security teams have the latest threat data from sources such as Palo Alto Wildfire or other security researchers by configuring a direct connection to them.

Tanium Protect integration enables Threat Response to provide the required data for creating process and network rule policies for Windows endpoints in Threat Protect. This way, a team can identify vulnerabilities and prevent future incidents from occurring across the entire network.

Integrating with Tanium Trends enables them to create graphics representing data from Threat Response on Trends boards and panels. In addition, Trends allows teams to use Tanium Interact for getting specific responses by an endpoint.

Conclusion

Ad hoc response to cyber-security threats is not a working strategy as new threats emerge daily and malicious actors are conducting a wide range of targeted attacks against a broader selection of enterprises and public organizations.

What any organization needs is an enterprise-grade security tool that supports a combination of features to detect, analyze, isolate and remediate cyber-threats and endpoint vulnerabilities while doing it at scale. Tanium Threat Response has all these features running in real-time and allows for even more by integrations with modules for creating security rules and performing reputation analysis.