How Barclays improved IT ops and security with the Tanium Communications Architecture
Tanium use cases
• Security Hygiene
• Endpoint Detection & Response
Challenges
• Visibility and control at global scale
• Time to detect, contain, and remediate security incidents
• Patch deployment measurement and completeness
• Endpoint tool sprawl and the need for consolidation
Benefits to IT
• Speed up security incident remediation to just minutes
• More complete patch deployment than previously possible through real-time measurement • Confident in visibility and control over 300,000 globally distributed endpoints
• Improved line-of-business confidence and reduced costs
With more than 300,000 endpoints across 40 countries, Barclays was dealing with a plethora of point tools, patch management challenges, and a frustrated incident response team. The Tanium platform allowed the organization to consolidate all those point tools, find an effective way to manage patching, and speed up incident response time to minutes. Since the 2008 financial crisis, global banks have faced increasing regulatory pressure across all aspects of their business. Barclays, the world’s seventh largest bank with 48 million customers worldwide and more than $2.42 trillion in assets, is no exception. Against the backdrop of CBEST, the Bank of England’s vulnerability test, and other regulatory requirements, Barclays decided to invest in new tools to enhance the speed, agility, and scalability of their security response. In 2016, they turned to Tanium. Barclays’ IT leaders were impressed by Tanium’s promise to provide clarity and management over their vast network of more than 300,000 endpoints across 40 countries. They also needed a complete solution that could interoperate and drive performance of existing security tools. Since acquiring Tanium in July, they haven’t looked back. “Operating on a global scale provides a lot of challenges when it comes to knowing your environment,” said Troels Oerting, Group Chief Security Officer at Barclays. “For the first time, we’ve been able to get a fast and accurate picture of our environment with Tanium.”
