Case Study: Whirlpool achieves up to 99% faster incident response and 100% disk encryption compliance with Tanium

Whirlpool Corporation Takes Tanium Out for a Spin

Whirlpool Corporation, the world’s leading major appliance maker with nearly 100,000 employees and 70 global manufacturing and R&D sites, faced the challenge of securing thousands of dispersed, hard-to-find endpoints with a fragmented set of security tools. The company struggled with slow patching, inconsistent enforcement of policies (including a requirement for full-disk encryption), and heavy reliance on local IT teams to discover and remediate issues.

Tanium delivered a single, highly integrated platform that works across desktops, servers and OSes and connects with existing tools like Splunk and Palo Alto Networks to enable fast discovery and automated remediation. The result: near-instant visibility into problems, enforcement of 100% disk-encryption compliance, reduction in devices out of compliance from 5–10% to under 1%, faster patching, and dramatically improved incident handling—discovery times improved ~83% and response times up to ~99% faster—freeing teams to pursue proactive threat hunting.

Whirlpool

Greg Fisbeck

Senior Manager of Cyber Security Operations