ADJ: Can you tell us more about Tanium and its role in cyber defence?
JG: Tanium gives IT and security teams real-time visibility and control over every endpoint in their environment. In defence, that translates into situational awareness: knowing what is on the network, what is running on each machine and what the risk profile of every device looks like at any given moment. That is hard to achieve when an organisation runs hundreds of thousands of endpoints across a widely dispersed estate, often over networks with patchy or intermittent connectivity.
The platform was built for, and proven in, US federal and defence environments that operate under exactly those conditions. That is why it can be deployed fully inside air-gapped networks, which many security tools cannot do, and why it performs well where bandwidth is limited. Visibility, patching, threat hunting and sensitive data tracking all run from a single platform, so a lean team can act across the entire environment without stitching together separate tools.
ADJ: Tanium’s solutions were recently added to NATO’s Information Assurance Product Catalogue. Can you tell us more about those solutions and what that means for the Asia-Pacific market?
JG: The four listed solutions map to what a defence organisation needs day to day. Core Plus provides real-time endpoint intelligence and tightly controlled remote access. Endpoint Management Plus automates provisioning and security policy enforcement. Security Operations covers threat hunting, forensics and remediation. Exposure Management Plus pulls vulnerabilities, compliance risks and sensitive data findings into one view, along with a software bill of materials built at runtime. Each was tested by the NATO Cyber Security Centre against NATO’s operational requirements, which gives procurement teams an independent benchmark rather than relying on vendor claims.
For Asia-Pacific, the relevance is coalition interoperability. Australia, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand all work closely with NATO as partners, and regional forces increasingly train and share data with allies. When allied forces use the same validated toolset, they can understand the risk profile of each other’s deployed systems before sharing data, and that confidence becomes more important as joint operations and exercises deepen.
ADJ: What are some of the challenges Tanium has identified and looks to address across the field?
JG: The first is the threat environment itself. Asia-Pacific is one of the most geopolitically charged regions in the world right now, and there are threat actors actively targeting defence organisations here. Those organisations are defending very large, geographically spread networks with highly variable connectivity, a mix of modern and legacy endpoints, and classified environments that have to stay air-gapped. Most commercial tools were designed for corporate networks and struggle in that setting.
The second set of challenges sits inside the network. Defence teams need to know, in real time, whether a threat actor has gained access anywhere across hundreds of thousands of endpoints, and a scan that is days old does not give them that. They also need to track classified data exposure. If material classified as secret moves to a lower classification level, they need to see it immediately and understand the scope of the spill. We address both from the same platform.
ADJ: With technology changing every second, how does Tanium keep up with the evolving threat matrix of the cyber domain?
JG: With AI, the threat landscape moves faster than any periodic assessment cycle, so our starting point is real-time data. Decisions about patching, hunting or isolating a device should be based on what is happening across the environment now, not on a snapshot from last week. That real-time foundation also lets teams validate risk early and act before a vulnerability becomes a breach.
We are also using AI to close the gap between insight and action. Tanium Atlas, our autonomous operating system, gives a single IT or security operator the data, guidance and reach that previously required an entire team. That matters in defence, where skilled cyber personnel are scarce and the volume of devices and alerts keeps growing. The aim is for teams to spend their time on judgement calls while the platform handles the speed and scale.
ADJ: As cyber defence spending rises, this could also attract more attention from hostile actors. How does Tanium cope with such emerging threats?
JG: The spending increase is significant. Military expenditure in Asia and Oceania totalled US$681 billion in 2025, 8.1% higher than in 2024, the largest annual rise since 2009. Much of that money is buying new equipment that will sit alongside legacy systems already in service, and every new platform, sensor and software supply chain widens the attack surface. Adversaries know that the transition period, when old and new systems are being integrated, is often when visibility is weakest.
Our role is to make sure new assets are visible and governed from the moment they connect, with the same real-time inventory, patching and policy enforcement as everything else on the network. Runtime software bills of materials help teams understand exactly what software is running on new systems, which is increasingly where supply chain risk sits. Combined with continuous threat hunting across the full estate, that lets defence organisations modernise quickly without opening gaps that hostile actors can exploit.
