Getting Answers Without Admin Rights: A Hands-On Intro to Tanium Atlas for Non-Admins

In this 90-minute hands-on lab, you’ll experience Tanium Atlas — Tanium’s autonomous operating system for IT and security operations in Tanium Cloud — from the perspective of a non-admin user with read-only console access. You’ll skip Interact syntax and module hopping and instead use Atlas’s single prompt-driven interface to ask natural-language questions of your environment, watch dynamically generated pages and visualizations assemble the answer around you, and explore the inline next-step recommendations Atlas surfaces alongside the data — with every state-changing action gated by human-in-the-loop approval policies so a read-only user can investigate safely. By the end of the session, you’ll have seen first-hand how Tanium turns uncertainty into answers — giving anyone with console access real-time visibility and the confidence to act in minutes, not hours, without scripts, guesswork, or sleepless nights.

Pre-Req(s): Console access to a Tanium Cloud environment (no admin rights required for the lab), Basic familiarity with IT or security questions you’d want answered in your role (no scripting required)

Additional details
Session Type
In-Person, Lab
Session Tag
AI Services, Core, Endpoint Management, Exposure Management, Security Operations
Role
GRC Analyst, SOC Analyst, Support Desk Analyst, Systems Administrator, Tanium Novice, Vulnerability Analyst
Difficulty
Beginner-Intermediate