TANIUM LEARNING CENTER
TANIUM ESSENTIALS
COURSE DESCRIPTION Delivery options and duration
ILT/vILT: 3 days | WBT: 7-8 hours
The Tanium Essentials course is an immersive training covering
the primary operational use cases of the Tanium core platform
and modules. Prerequisites
Participants learn how to use Tanium’s powerful abilities to gain Getting Started With Tanium is
valuable network visibility, assess potential risks, plan for threat recommended.
remediation, and empower security and IT operations teams to
continuously secure, control, and manage every endpoint at
speed and scale. Certification path
Tanium Essentials is part of the
Topics include the primary operational use cases and key recommended study material for
features of the Tanium core platform and the following the 'TCO Certification'. Click here to
modules: Interact, Trends, Connect, Discover, Asset, Deploy, learn more: Certifications | Tanium
Patch, Performance, Enforce, Threat Response, Impact, Comply,
Integrity Monitor, Reveal, and Benchmark. Target audience
This course is intended for both new
DELIVERY OPTIONS and experienced Tanium users who
are ready to expand their
knowledge of the Tanium core
platform, and desire to become
more proficient in the primary
operational and security use cases
of the Tanium modules.
Instructor-Led Virtual Web-Based
Training (ILT) Instructor-Led Training (WBT)
Training (VILT) Registration information
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COURSE OBJECTIVES CONNECT
• Describe the basic features, functions,
PLATFORM & CONSOLE and benefits of Tanium Connect
• Identify the available Connect sources
• Recognize Tanium's unique linear-chain
and destinations
communication model
• Create and configure a new connection
• Access the Tanium platform using the Console
and understand the basic fundamentals of its
user interface DISCOVER
• Customize a module overview page and user • Describe the basic features, functions,
settings and benefits of Tanium Discover
• Explain how active scanning works
INTERACT • Create a Discover profile
• Apply labels to interfaces
• Describe the basic features, functions, and
• Describe Tanium Client Management
benefits of Tanium Interact
• Ask Interact questions using a variety of
methods ASSET
• Analyze, drill down, and merge question • Describe the basic features, functions,
results and benefits of Tanium Asset
• Create and deploy actions to the environment • Create a Report
• Work with Saved Questions and Interact • Set attributes and create a view
Content • Browse product usage data
TRENDS (LEGACY) DEPLOY
• Describe the basic features, functions, and • Describe the basic features, functions,
benefits of Tanium Trends and benefits of Tanium Deploy
• Explain the differences between boards and • Import third-party software package
panels templates
• Create boards to monitor critical data about • Deploy a series of packages to an
endpoints endpoint
• Use conditional formatting to quickly bring • Use Self Service to install and remove
attention to issues software
• Customize charts to gain valuable insight into • Use maintenance windows to install or
your endpoints remove software on your schedule
• Publish boards and share to email, files, or an
AWS S3 bucket
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PATCH THREAT RESPONSE
• Describe the basic features, functions, and • Describe the basic features, functions,
benefits of Tanium Patch and benefits of Tanium Threat Response
• Choose scan methods to set up scan • Describe how Threat Response can be
configurations used to detect and react to threats
• Manage patches with patch lists and block • Describe the function of each
lists component on the Threat Response
• Align deployments with maintenance windows client
• Specify targeted endpoints with deployment • Review high-level Threat Response
templates information
• Act upon threats using Threat Response
PERFORMANCE features
• Take data related to Threat Response
• Describe the basic features, functions, and and share it
benefits of Tanium Performance
• Create profiles to detect performance
problems
IMPACT
• Analyze performance problems • Describe the basic features, functions,
• Investigate endpoints with Direct Connect and benefits of Tanium Impact
• Work with Performance and Trends to check • Describe how Tanium Impact analyzes
charts potential lateral movement
• Use the Impact categories to locate
ENFORCE potential causes of excessive rights
• Identify users, groups, and endpoints
• Describe the basic features, functions, and with high potential of lateral movement
benefits of Tanium Enforce • Use Impact data to develop a plan to
• Describe how Tanium Enforce can be used to reduce lateral movement in the
consistently harden your environment enterprise
• Describe the uses of different policy types
• Create and manage Configuration policies
• Create and manage Remediation policies
COMPLY
• Verify that policies are enforced • Describe the basic features, functions,
and benefits of Tanium Comply
• Create an assessment
• Explain the types of standards used by
Comply
• Create a compliance report
• Save a report from findings
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INTEGRITY MONITOR
• Describe the features, benefits, and use cases
for Tanium Integrity Monitor
• Describe the basic features, functions, and
benefits of Tanium Integrity Monitor
• Create an Integrity Monitor watchlist
• Set up monitors and view event data
• Ask questions that use Integrity Monitor
sensors
• Work with Integrity Monitor rules
REVEAL
• Describe the basic features, functions, and
benefits of Tanium Reveal
• Create a Rule
• Conduct a Quick Search
• Investigate matches and publish validations
BENCHMARK
• Describe the basic features, functions, and
benefits of Tanium Benchmark
• Determine an enterprise’s risk score and
asset criticality
• View metrics and dashboards
• Pivot into supporting products for deeper
analysis
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COURSE OUTLINE ASSET
• Asset overview
PLATFORM & CONSOLE • Reports
• Sources and destinations
• Tanium infrastructure
• Software Inventory & Usage
• Platform components
• The Tanium Console
DEPLOY
INTERACT • Deploy overview
• Software packages
• Interact overview
• Deployments
• Asking Questions
• Self-service profiles
• Analyzing results
• Interact content
• Creating Saved Questions PATCH
• Creating a dashboard • Patch overview
• Action types • Scan configurations
• Deploying actions • Patches
• Action history • Block lists
• Deployments
TRENDS (LEGACY)
• Trends overview PERFORMANCE
• Creating boards and panels • Performance overview
• Managing Trends content • Profiles
• Events
CONNECT • Direct Connect
• Trends
• Connect overview
• Creating connections
• Sources and destinations ENFORCE
• Configuration • Enforce overview
• Policies
DISCOVER • Configuration policies
• Remediation policies
• Discover overview
• Verifying policy enforcement
• Scans
• Organizing interfaces
• Tanium Client Management THREAT RESPONSE
• Threat Response overview
• Threat Response components
• Threat Response hygiene
• Incident Response workflow
• Integrations
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IMPACT
• Impact overview
• Interpreting results
• Identifying critical assignments
• Addressing lateral movement
COMPLY
• Comply overview
• Assessments
• Standards
• Reports
• Findings
INTEGRITY MONITOR
• Benefits
• Integrity Monitor overview
• Watchlists
• Monitors and events
• Rules
REVEAL
• Reveal overview
• Patterns
• Rules
• Quick Search
• Results and rule validations
BENCHMARK
• Benchmark overview
• Risk score
• Using Benchmark dashboards
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