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| Tenable Holdings, Inc. | |
| Formerly | Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| Nasdaq: TENB | |
| Industry | Cybersecurity |
| Founded | 2002 |
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| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Amit Yoran (CEO) |
| Products | Nessus |
| Revenue |  $712 Million(2023) |
Number of employees | 1900 [1] |
| Website | www |
Tenable, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Columbia, Maryland. It is known as the creator of the vulnerability scanning software Nessus.[2]
Tenable was founded in 2002 as Tenable Network Security, Inc. The original co-founders of Tenable were Ron Gula, Jack Huffard, and Renaud Deraison.[3] In 2012, Tenable received its first round of institutional funding in the form of $50 million from the venture capital firm Accel Partners.[4] In 2017, the company was renamed Tenable, Inc.[5] Its initial public offering (IPO) took place on the Nasdaq on July 26, 2018.[6]
In 2016, Tenable acquired the cybersecurity company FlawCheck.[7] In 2019, Tenable paid $78 million to acquire the Israel-based operational technology company Indegy Ltd.[8]
In April 2022, Tenable announced plans to acquire an attack surface management software startup, Bit Discovery, for $45 million in cash. The acquisition was expected to close in the second quarter of 2022.[9]
In September 2023, Tenable announced plans to acquire Ermetic—an Israeli cloud-native application protection startup—for $240 million in cash and $25 million in restricted stock and RSUs. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2023.[10][11]