PwC Middle East and Tanium form strategic alliance, bringing new cybersecurity services to market

As modern IT networks become more complex and distributed, organisations face mounting pressure to manage thousands upon thousands of computing devices. This partnership will bring together PwC’s deep expertise in cybersecurity and digital transformation with Tanium’s unified endpoint management and security platform, to help organisations better manage and secure the enterprise environment.  Together, PwC and Tanium will help clients gain valuable, quick insight into their computing endpoints, including laptops, servers, virtual machines, containers, and cloud infrastructure. 

Through the partnership with Tanium, joint customers will now be able to:   

• Achieve clear visibility endpoints and insight into the hygiene of their IT environment, by proactively identifying and managing IT assets.
• Engage in proactive discovery that helps organisations identify both live and historic threat activity. 
• Obtain real-time threat alerts with a Signals subscription service to help clients derive maximum benefit from Tanium's Threat Response capability. This includes over 800 behavioural indicators of compromise in Tanium Signal format, based on the common behaviours of advanced threat actors. These are aligned to the tactics and techniques documented in the MITRE ATT&CK framework.  
• Perform Risk Modelling: A data driven solution that visualises multiple endpoint datasets collected via Tanium. This includes asset, vulnerability, compliance and threat data to allow organisations to identify high risk threat vectors and gaps in endpoint visibility and control.    

PwC’s breadth of expertise in digital transformation will also provide any organisation seeking to adopt Tanium with end-to-end support across competencies such as digital and IT, change management, upskilling, best practices, governance frameworks and technology implementation.      

Simone Vernacchia, Partner - Digital, Cybersecurity, Resilience and Infrastructure, at PwC Middle East, said: “According to PwC’s 23rd Middle East CEO survey, 77% of the Middle Eastern CEOs are planning to pursue operational efficiencies, 47% of them are worried about the shortage of cybersecurity skills, and only 31% have an existing data security strategy (compared to 58% worldwide). In response to these concerns, PwC developed a full technology optimisation, hygiene and cybersecurity service offering through its partnership with Tanium. Tanium’s technology is enabling these services by allowing clients to unleash unprecedented power in fully understanding IT assets and having full control on them in a timely and simple way, optimising cybersecurity and IT management.

This alliance is an additional indication of PwC’s leading capabilities in providing digitally enabling services to our clients, merging business and IT with the help of enabling emerging technologies.”

Matt Ellard, EMEA Managing Director at Tanium said: "Business leaders face mounting pressure to manage thousands of networked endpoints and keep critical information secure. We are delighted to extend our longtime partnership with PwC to help our joint customers increase their visibility of potential threats and accurately monitor and remediate issues in their IT environment in real time.”

PwC helps organisations across the Middle East to accelerate their transformation and reinvention. The firm’s integrated approach is designed to meet the expectations of today's customer and help public and private entities to deliver value in the rapidly evolving digital economy. PwC combines strategy, technology and management consulting expertise to help organisations succeed and employ the right technologies to create competitive advantage.