Tanium Wins 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Award for Best Cybersecurity Company — Recognised for AI-First Autonomous IT Innovation
Cybersecurity / AI Tech Trends | 3 min read
Tanium, a leader in Autonomous IT, has been named a Silver Award winner in the Best Cybersecurity Company category at the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards — presented by Cybersecurity Insiders and announced at RSA Conference 2026 in San Francisco. The annual awards recognise companies, technologies, and professionals who demonstrate excellence, innovation, and leadership in cybersecurity. Tanium was specifically honoured for its innovation in unifying IT operations and security operations on a single platform, driven by AI and real-time intelligence.
AI-First Autonomous IT — The Platform That Earned the Recognition
The Tanium Autonomous IT Platform brings together endpoint management, exposure management, and security operations in a unified environment — enabling organisations to continuously identify, prioritise, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities and threats at speed and scale. By combining AI with real-time intelligence, the platform is designed to help organisations move from reactive, point-in-time security responses to a continuously operational posture — addressing threats before they escalate rather than after the damage is done.
A recent Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study quantified the platform's real-world impact, finding that organisations deploying the Tanium platform achieved a 75% reduction in mean time to repair (MTTR) for endpoint incidents, a 95% improvement in workstation patching efficiency, and a 70% productivity improvement for endpoint operations and security teams by year three — a compelling set of metrics that underpins the award recognition.
"As organisations confront an increasingly complex and relentless threat landscape, cyber resilience requires operating at real time with speed, scale and safety. This recognition reinforces Tanium's AI-first commitment and approach to Autonomous IT — bringing together endpoint management, exposure management and security operations on a single, unified platform driven by AI and real-time intelligence."
— Matt Quinn, Chief Technology Officer, Tanium
"We congratulate Tanium on being recognised as a Silver Award winner for Best Cybersecurity Company in the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. This recognition reflects Tanium's impact and commitment to advancing cybersecurity, as evaluated by an independent panel of practitioners, analysts and CISOs from the Cybersecurity Insiders community."
— Holger Schulze, Founder, Cybersecurity Insiders and Cybersecurity Excellence Awards
Strong Momentum Across the Industry
The Cybersecurity Excellence Award builds on a strong run of industry recognition for Tanium in 2026. The company has also received a 5-star rating in the 2026 CRN® Partner Program Guide, been included in CRN's Security 100 list, and was recognised as Microsoft Security Software Development Company of the Year — a trio of accolades that reinforces Tanium's position as a leading force in the enterprise cybersecurity landscape.
Together, these recognitions reflect a broader industry shift toward unified, AI-driven security platforms that eliminate the operational silos between IT and security teams — a model that Tanium has been building toward and that the threat environment increasingly demands. As the attack surface continues to expand across endpoints, cloud environments, and AI-driven workflows, the ability to see, manage, and respond to the entire environment in real time is no longer a competitive differentiator — it is a baseline requirement for cyber resilience.
Key Takeaways
- • Tanium has been named a Silver Award winner in the Best Cybersecurity Company category at the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards — presented by Cybersecurity Insiders and announced at RSA Conference 2026 in San Francisco, evaluated by an independent panel of practitioners, analysts, and CISOs.
- • The award recognises Tanium's Autonomous IT Platform — a unified environment combining endpoint management, exposure management, and security operations, driven by AI and real-time intelligence to enable continuous identification, prioritisation, validation, and remediation of threats at scale.
- • A Forrester Consulting TEI study found the platform delivered: 75% reduction in MTTR for endpoint incidents, 95% improvement in workstation patching efficiency, and a 70% productivity improvement for endpoint operations and security teams by year three.
- • The win adds to a strong 2026 recognition streak: 5-star rating in the CRN® Partner Program Guide, inclusion in CRN's Security 100 list, and recognition as Microsoft Security Software Development Company of the Year.
- • The broader signal: the industry is moving decisively toward unified, AI-first security platforms that bridge the gap between IT operations and security operations — with real-time visibility and autonomous remediation becoming baseline requirements for cyber resilience in an expanding threat landscape.