Website www.tanium.com Headquarters Emeryville Type of business Privately held company | CEO Orion Hindawi (Feb 2016–) Founded 2007 | |
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Founders Orion Hindawi, David Hindawi | ||
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Tanium is a privately held endpoint security and systems management company based in Emeryville, California. Founded in 2007 by David Hindawi and Orion Hindawi, the company's platform employs a novel technology that enables visibility and control across enterprise-wide network endpoints within 15 seconds.
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The company has raised more than $300 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Franklin Templeton, Geodesic Partners, Institutional Venture Partners and TPG, valuing the company at $3.5 billion in September 2015. Tanium is Andreessen Horowitz's largest single investment to date.
History
The company was founded in 2007 by father and son David Hindawi and Orion Hindawi, co-founders of IT management company BigFix (acquired by IBM in 2010). Orion was named CEO in February 2016, and David serves as Executive Chairman.
In 2016, Tanium was ranked #13 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list.
Reception
Tanium is in use with more than half the Fortune 100, with clients including Amazon, eBay, JPMorgan Chase, Metlife, Monsanto, Nasdaq, Target, Verizon and Visa, plus the U.S. Department of Defense.
The company was named to the JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation and was named Forbes' "Hottest Cybersecurity Startup of 2015."
Target CISO Brad Maiorino has publicly said Tanium was his "first call" when he joined Target following a 2013 Target data breach that compromised up to 40 million credit and debit card accounts.