Orion Hindawi (born 1980) is an American billionaire software entrepreneur, and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Tanium.

Biography

Hindawi was born and raised in Berkeley, California,Forbes: The World's Billionaires - Orion Hindawi
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April 15, 2015 and attended the

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. He is the son of billionaire David Hindawi, an

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immigrant from

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. In 2007, along with his father, he founded the cybersecurity firm, Tanium. In September 2015, they raised $120 million in new funding that valued Tanium at $10 billion. Tanium uses a novel approach to cybersecurity different from its main competitors Symantec and Intel's

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which have a central data center that communicates directly with individual computers (and requiring a massive investment in data centers), Tanium instead uses a linear chain system where each computer on a network talks to the computer adjacent to it, pooling data, and then relaying the information in a chain before sending it back to a single server. In February 2016, Orion took over as CEO from his father.

Personal life

Hindawi is married and has two children.

References

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