Gaining organizational effectiveness

The three key organizational governance steps to maximizing the value that is delivered by Trends are as follows:

Change management

Develop a tailored, dedicated change management process for data visualizations, taking into account the new capabilities provided by Tanium.

  • Update SLAs with elevated expectations, including data visualization configuration and maintenance.
  • Identify key resources in the organization to review and approve changes to data visualizations to ensure minimal unexpected or unapproved changes.
  • Identify maintenance windows for various data visualization scenarios to maximize uptime.
  • Create a Tanium steering group (TSG) for data visualization activities, to expedite reviews and approvals of processes that align with SLAs.

Organizational alignment

Successful organizations use Tanium across functional silos as a common platform for high-fidelity endpoint data and unified endpoint management. Tanium provides a common data schema that enables security, operations, and risk/compliance teams to assure that they are acting on a common set of facts that are delivered by a unified platform.

In the absence of cross-functional alignment, functional silos often spend time and effort in litigating data quality instead of making decisions to increase awareness of data visualizations at all levels of the organization.

Operational metrics

Trends maturity

Managing data visualizations successfully includes operationalization of the technology and measuring success through key benchmarking metrics. The four key processes to measure and guide operational maturity of your Tanium Trends program are as follows:

Process Description
Usage How and when Tanium Trends is used in your organization
Automation How automated Tanium Trends is
Functional Integration How integrated Tanium Trends is, across IT security, IT operations, and IT risk/compliance teams
Reporting How automated Tanium Trends is and who the audience of data visualizations is

Use the following table to determine the maturity level for Tanium Trends in your organization.

    Level 1
(Initializing)		 Level 2
(Progressing)		 Level 3
(Intermediate)		 Level 4
(Mature)		 Level 5
(Optimized)
Process Usage Tanium Core Platform and Trends installed Trends boards, panels, and sources created and in use Tanium administrators rely on Trends boards to monitor health of environment, investigate and take action

Multiple boards in use to track organization key performance indicators, set goals, and strategic initiatives

New sources created as standard operating procedure to important upgrades, vulnerabilities, events, and incidents

Custom sensors or modify an existing sensor specifically for use as a Trends source are in use

Custom RBAC roles and content sets to restrict access to boards and sources
Automation Tanium module boards automatically imported into Trends Creating sources to track key results and metrics over time Use Connect to periodically publish and email Trends boards to major stakeholders Conditional and advanced formatting to prioritize further investigation and action Conditional and advanced formatting to prioritize further investigation and action
Functional integration Trends is functionally siloed within Operations and Security Utilizing Trends for basic reporting and actions Exporting to internal systems for reporting and actions; end-users access to Trends to access dashboards​ Utilizing Trends imports and exports to move boards, panels, and sources between Tanium environments​ Utilize Trends API to publish Trends boards to an internal portal (optional)​
Reporting Unused Ad hoc; Tanium administrators Consistent; Reporting tailored to stakeholders on cadence Automated; Reporting tailored to stakeholders ranging from Operator to Executive Automated; Reporting tailored to stakeholders ranging from Operator to Executive