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Netskope

Netskope, Indian Co-Founders who make a huge contribution to the success of the company.

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Founded in 2012, Netskope is an American software company based in Santa Clara, California, United States. Netskope provides a computer security platform and offers cloud-native solutions for enterprises such that the companies can protect their sensitive data and defend their application and system against various cyber threats. Netskope is considered a leading company in its sector because of its Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB). The founders of the company are Sanjay Beri (current CEO), Lebin Cheng, Ravi Ithal, and Krishna Narayanaswamy. Apart from its headquarters that is based in Santa Clara, the company also has a software development facility in Bangalore, India. 

About Netskope

When the team of Netskope was formed, it brought in distinguished engineers from the security and networking field. Some of its early members are ex-employees of Cisco, Juniper Networks, Palo Alto Networks, and VMWare. The company currently has more than 1,000 employees and it has some of the biggest multinational conglomerates as its clients (more than 25% of Fortune 100 customers). 

Netskope has expanded to various international markets including India, Singapore, Melbourne, London, etc. In the 21st century, Netskope is one of the fastest-growing SASE companies and the main idea behind building the company was to give people the power to access the cloud on their devices,

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Founding History of Netskope

Before co-founding Netskope, Sanjay Beri was the VP of the Access & Security business at Juniper Networks. Since Sanjay worked at a very reputed company he made several connections throughout the year. So, for some time he took time and spoke to several CEOs of other companies and finally in 2012 co-founded Netskope. He started the company with initial venture capital of $21 million approximately. During the first six months, an office was set up in Palo Alto from where Netskope operated. When they established the company, the first thing that Netskope put their focus on was hiring the best talents. 

In October 2013, the company launched its first product which was security software available openly. The company also formed an advisory team and brought Enrique Salem, former Symantec Chairman onboard. In the funding round of 2014, the company raised $35 million followed by raising another $75 million in 2015. The latter funding round was led by ICONIQ Capital. The company announced that the latest fundings would be invested to expand in New Zealand and Australia. 

Funding and Acquisition

In 2016, the first two patents of Netskope were finally issued in its name for security and network-delivered services. Next year, the company conducted another funding round which was bigger than all the funding rounds held before that. Netskope was able to raise $100 million in the funding round and it was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. In the same year, the company acquired Sift Security, a software business that mainly focused on next-generation cloud infrastructure security. Cloud Hunter of Sift Security was renamed as Netskope’s Security Cloud after the acquisition. In 2018, another patent was issued to Netskope for context-aware data loss prevention. By the end of 2018, the company successfully raised another $168.7 million. 

Recent Days

In 2019, the company brought a new CFO of Netskope, Drew Del Matto (former Citrix and Fortinet executive). Earlier in 2020, Netskope conducted another funding round and raised $340 million. This funding round was led by Sequoia Capital Global Equities and the total funding summed up to $740 million. In February 2020, the company launched Netskope Private Access Solution, and the same year the company’s total valuation became $3 billion (tripled within fifteen months). The company has made Forbes Cloud 100 list because of its advanced cloud services that include protection against cyber threats. The company has already entered into a partnership with Cybersecurity and Exclusive Networks. 

Sanjay Beri – Co-founder and CEO

Sanjay pursued computer engineering from the University of Waterloo followed by completing his master’s in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Though Sanjay came on the radar after co-founding Netskope, his first startup was Ingrian Networks which was eventually acquired by SafeNet. Some of the companies that he worked at before building his own company were Microsoft, McAfee, and Juniper Networks. 

Tanium

Father-Son Duo Orion And David Hindawi That Set Up Endpoint Security Firm Tanium!

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Orion Hindawi and David Hindawi, a father-son duo recognized that IT management issues and increasing cybercrimes could not be solved by technology alone. Thus, the duo took the next step and set up a company called Tanium. In 2007, Orion Hindawi set up Tanium with his father in partnership. Presently, Tanium stands out differently than the other competitors McAfee, Symantec, etc. Because the company uses a novel approach to cybersecurity that is unique.

All this achieved under the guidance of father-son duo. However, Orion is playing a crucial role in exploring the business of the company. Currently, he leads product strategy and development of the Tanium platform. Also, responsible for all customer-facing technical operations as well as management functions.

Tanium’s co-founder and CEO- Orion Hindawi

American businessman Orion Hindawi is the present CEO of the Tanium. Earlier, he worked at VP technology for more than 8 years. Orion is a technology executive with deep technical experience in enterprise management software. Let’s see the details of personal as well as the professional life of Orion Hindawi.

Personal Life

He was born in 1980 in an Iraqi Jewish family. However, he spent most of his childhood in Berkeley, California. As his father David Hindawi was shifted to California from Israel to earn a Ph. D. at UC Berkeley. Following father’s path, he also admitted to the same college. But he dropped out before graduation to help his father at work.

Career achievements of Orion Hindawi

Before setting up Tanium, Orion co-founded another security management platform called BigFix. He served more than 17 years in the firm where he led the development of endpoint security and management platform. This firm later on acquired by IBM in 2010. Also, he had a great contribution to what the Tanium is today. As well, he works with Tanium costumers daily so that the Tanium platform would find out new approaches for solving the significant challenges of securing and managing large enterprise environments. Presently, he is one of the board of directors at Tanium. In 2016, he succeeded his father and became the new CEO of the company.

The Tanium foundation Backstory

The vision of the founders behind the Tanium establishment was to empower the largest organizations of the world to manage and secure their networks. Tanium is a resultant of this idea that solves the biggest security issues of the firms. Especially, focusing on the IT sector. With this vision, Orion and David Hindawi established Tanium in 2007. In a short duration, the company managed to provide a new way to manage and secure the networks against cyber threats. Today, it has a team of smartest people with the deepest expertise in the market. In fact, the duo spent almost five years to develop a cybersecurity platform so that the technology would scale across the largest global networks.

About Tanium

It is American system management and endpoint security firm. It headquartered at Emeryville in California. However, the firm managed to understand the security issues the IT industry faced and enable the best cybersecurity solution. Tanium uses advance technology along with a deep understanding of the processes and people. Thus, enabling the best service to keep the client’s most precious data secure.

Under Orion and his father’s guidance, several largest and most respected firms in the world re-platformed endpoint security as well as management with Tanium. Includes, AutoNation, Barclays, GoDaddy, Whirlpool, Sutter Health as well as U. S. Navy.

Bottom Line

The firm Orion and his father David Hindawi established in 2007 raised 120 million dollars in funding in the past. However, the company successfully raised many fundings that valued Tanium at 3.5 billion dollars firm. In return, the father-son duo became a billionaire. Presently, it is one of the leading endpoint security companies that ensures the client’s sensitive data security.

Presently, 1,000+ experts worked at Tanium to make its platform more advanced. The company is unstoppable and consistently working to transform IT management. Also, aims to solve unsolvable problems of IT management and cybersecurity.