Tenable, Inc. is a

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company based in

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. It is known as the creator of the vulnerability scanning software Nessus.

History

Tenable was founded in 2002 as Tenable Network Security, Inc. The original co-founders of Tenable were Ron Gula, Jack Huffard, and Renaud Deraison. In 2012, Tenable received its first round of institutional funding in the form of $50 million from the

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firm

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. In 2017, the company was renamed Tenable, Inc. Its

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(IPO) took place on the

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on July 26, 2018.

Acquisitions

In 2016, Tenable acquired the cybersecurity company FlawCheck. In 2019, Tenable paid $78 million to acquire the

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-based

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company Indegy Ltd. 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.

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