You can't patch what you can't see – that was the case with NHS. Now with Tanium, the organization gets real-time data and visibility into third-party applications.
Key takeaways
NHS Informatics Merseyside gained patch visibility and more with Tanium.
Third-party applications elude patch visibility
Using third-party applications lets an organization select best-of-breed software, but many of these tools also make the challenging task of patching even more challenging. To ensure all applications have up-to-date patches, organizations need high levels of visibility. Before using Tanium, this organization didn’t have it.
Patching visibility gained via a single pane of glass
With Tanium, the organization now has a single interface providing visibility into its full range of third-party applications. What’s more, the data is up-to-the-minute and live, something the organization’s previous endpoint tool couldn’t offer.
Post-patching notifications, too
Patching, though important, isn’t the whole story. The organization discovered that a surprisingly large number of its patched systems hadn’t been restarted. With Tanium, it can now identify those machines quickly and easily, and then get them restarted and provisioned.
“It was incredible how many of our machines had been patched, but not restarted. With Tanium, we can now identify these machines, then get them restarted and provisioned.”