Tanium Authentication Guide

How to authenticate Tanium for use with Tines

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Written by Daniel Stoeski
Updated over a week ago

Tanium is a cloud-based endpoint management solution, which assists large enterprises and government organizations with firewall management and threat monitoring. Key features include policy enforcement, status tracking, incident management and reporting.

First, get a Tanium API key

  1. Login to your Tanium account

  2. Click on "Administration" and the click "API Tokens"


  3. Click "New API Token"


  4. Give the token a descriptive note, set an expiration, add a trusted IP address and click "Save"



  5. Click "Yes"


  6. Copy your API Token to a text editor

Lastly, create a Tanium credential in Tines

  1. Login to your Tines tenant

  2. Navigate to the team that will be using the API and click "Credentials"

  3. Click "+ New Credential" and select "Text"

  4. Input the values for the Tanium credential

    1. Name: Tanium

    2. Description: Optional

    3. Value: Your API Token

  5. Optional

    1. Domains: Ensure this credential can only be used when making HTTP requests to specific domains.

    2. Access: What other teams can also use the API

  6. Click "Save"

For more on creating credentials in Tines, click here.

You can find a selection of Tanium stories in the story library

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