Tenable Holdings, Inc. | |
Formerly | Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
Company type | Public company |
Nasdaq: TENB | |
Industry | Cybersecurity |
Founded | 2002 |
Founders |
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Headquarters | |
Key people | Amit Yoran, CEO |
Products | Nessus |
Revenue | $712 million (2023) |
Number of employees | 1,900, including 796 employees outside the U.S. |
Website |
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Footnotes / references [1] |
Tenable, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Columbia, Maryland. Its vulnerability scanner software Nessus, developed in 1998, is one of the most widely deployed vulnerability assessment solutions in the cybersecurity industry. [1] As of December 31, 2022, the company had approximately 43,000 customers. [1]
Tenable was founded in 2002 as Tenable Network Security, Inc. by Ron Gula, Jack Huffard, and Renaud Deraison. [2] In 2005, Nessus became proprietary software, rather than open-source software, to generate income for the company. [3]
In September 2012, Tenable received $50 million in series A round funding from Accel Partners. [4] Also that month, the company entered into a partnership to provide cybersecurity services for the United States Intelligence Community. [5] In 2015, Tenable received $250 million in a series B round led by Insight Partners. [6] In 2017, the company was renamed Tenable, Inc. [1] In July 2018, the company became a public company via an initial public offering. [7]
# | Year | Company | Price | Description of Assets | Ref(s). |
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1 | 2016 | FlawCheck | Undisclosed | Cybersecurity company | [8] |
2 | 2019 | Indegy | $78 million | Israel-based operational technology company | [9] |
3 | April 2021 | Alsid | $98 million | Software for finding security issues in Active Directory deployments | [10] |
4 | October 2021 | Accurics | $160 million | cloud-native security for DevOps and security teams | [11] |
5 | June 2022 | Bit Discovery | $45 million | Attack surface management software startup | [12] |
6 | October 2023 | Ermetic | $240 million in cash and $25 million in restricted stock and RSUs | Israeli cloud-native application protection startup | [13] |