Dan Ballance is the Senior Manager of Applied AI Architecture at Tanium. His team connects Tanium's Field, Product, and Engineering groups to make Tanium Atlas work in real customer environments. His built Tanium Observe, the system that Tanium uses to evaluate Atlas behavior. Dan joined Tanium in 2021. Since then, he has been a Technical Account Manager, a Director of Technical Account Management, and a Senior Advanced Consulting Engineer. Before Tanium, he spent ten years in national defense as a U.S. Navy officer at sea and in cyber defense operations. He holds the CISSP certification.