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posted by martyb on Friday April 21 2017, @02:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the IPO-plans-now-require-unobTanium dept.

Information security company Tanium is a relatively well-established "next-generation" cybersecurity vendor that was founded 10 years ago—far ahead of the wave of the venture capital-funded newcomers, like Cylance, who have changed the security software space. (Tanium has reached a market valuation of more than $3 billion, though there are no indications of when it will make an initial public offering.)

Starting in 2012, Tanium apparently had a secret weapon to help it compete with the wave of newcomers, which the company's executives used in sales demonstrations: a live customer network they could tap into for product demonstrations. There was just one problem: the customer didn't know that Tanium was using its network. And since the customer was a hospital, the Tanium demos—which numbered in the hundreds between 2012 and 2015, according to a Wall Street Journal report—exposed live, sensitive information about the hospital's IT systems. Until recently, some of that data was shown in publicly posted videos.

In 2010, Tanium's software was installed at Allscripts Healthcare Solutions' El Camino Hospital (which markets itself as "the hospital of Silicon Valley") in Santa Clara County, California. The hospital no longer has a relationship with Tanium. While Tanium did not have access to patient data, the demos showed desktop and server management details that were not anonymized.

"The hospital did not authorize desktop management data or other information to be used in any product demonstration and was not previously aware of these demonstrations or videos," El Camino Hospital told the Journal's Rolfe Winkler. "We are dismayed to learn that desktop and server management information was shared. We are thoroughly investigating this matter and take our responsibility to maintain the integrity of our systems very seriously."

[...] CEO Hindawi: "Viewers didn't connect demo to that customer for years."

Additional Coverage: WSJ, BI, HealthDataManagement, Ars Technica, Bloomberg.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @05:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @05:01PM (#497492)

    (Post is pretty much off topic.)

    #2 is closer. I've found I enjoy driving fast cars, but that's a hobby that's beyond my means.

    I'm continuing to look for something within my means that makes me happy.

    I think I'm just frustrated with myself that I can't do what's clearly necessary to, say, become a race car driver, and now that I'm getting older, I doubt my body could handle the g-forces very well anyway.

    One time I came across a YouTube video by somebody who claimed to have bought a Lamborghini from years of flipping used cars in his spare time. "You can do it too! Don't mope! Get out there and earn a Lamborghini!" he said. The more I looked into it, though, it turned out that he was lying just like everybody else that has nice things in life. Shortly thereafter he lost his job in financing. I wonder if he embezzled the money. He still had the car, though.

    I guess at least if my car isn't very fast in the grand scheme of things, it's at least fun to drive.