{"id":3478,"date":"2012-09-05T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?guid=73bd4a872a6acd9dc8e71a8dc5e4a533"},"modified":"2012-09-05T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T14:22:00","slug":"tenable-network-security-gets-50-million-for-vulnerability-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/tenable-network-security-gets-50-million-for-vulnerability-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenable Network Security Gets $50 Million for Vulnerability Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"org fn\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tenable.com%2F&amp;esheet=50397191&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Tenable+Network+Security&amp;index=1&amp;md5=d0fbc904efc1f1be821a9d403a67113b\">Tenable Network Security<\/a>, Inc., whose software identifies network security gaps before they are exploited by attackers, today announced $50 million in first-round funding from <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.accel.com&amp;esheet=50397191&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Accel+Partners&amp;index=2&amp;md5=959090cb344a38eb63777c81ad58fcf2\">Accel Partners<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tenable will use the funds to expand its innovative security offerings and accelerate global growth \u2013 while deepening its research into evolving threats that are becoming a critical trust issue for CEOs, regulators and customers worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecurity is a mainstream issue \u2013 especially with the explosion of mobile, cloud and virtual computing,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tenable.com%2Fabout-tenable%2Fmanagement-team%23Ron&amp;esheet=50397191&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Ron+Gula&amp;index=3&amp;md5=c94b877f2e3b696d45265476fe47ad25\">Ron Gula<\/a>, CEO of Tenable. \u201cSerious network attacks are far more common than anyone wants to publicly admit \u2013 and our customers count on us to keep their networks safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-12016\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tenable is the top choice for businesses of all sizes, governments and universities to manage network threats. The company\u2019s flagship vulnerability management products, Nessus and SecurityCenter, are used by the most demanding security professionals and compliance auditors at 15,000 organizations worldwide, including:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"bwmarginl1\">\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">The entire U.S. Department of Defense, where Tenable has become the<br \/>\nvulnerability management standard<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">12 of the 14 U.S. Federal Civilian Departments<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">Top Financial Services Companies: <em>Barclays, Deloitte, RBS, Morgan<br \/>\nStanley, T. Rowe Price, Visa<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">Technology Leaders: <em>Spotify, Dell, Etsy, Google, Intel, Microsoft,<br \/>\nSkype, Apple, Yahoo<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">Top Universities: <em>Brown, Dartmouth, Michigan, Ohio State, Purdue<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">Healthcare Leaders: <em>Coventry, HealthSouth, Johnson &amp; Johnson,<br \/>\nMerck, Scripps, Sutter Health<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">Key Energy Players: <em>Chevron, Chesapeake Energy, ConocoPhillips,<br \/>\nConEdison, Duke Energy, TXU<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">Retailer Innovators: <em>Chipotle, GSI, Meijer, Diapers.com, Zappos.com<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">Media Visionaries: <em>British Sky Broadcasting, CBS, Comcast, Time<br \/>\nWarner, 20<\/em><sup><em>th<\/em><\/sup><em> Century Fox<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">Telecom Providers: <em>Alcatel Lucent, Bell Canada, British Telecom,<br \/>\nSoftbank Mobile, Verizon<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tenable\u2019s user community has 1 million people who have learned the benefits of automated vulnerability scanning through their viral adoption of Nessus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTenable is the thought leader in the rapidly growing and critical area of vulnerability assessment,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.accel.com%2Fglobal%2Fpeople%2Fspecialty%2Fall%2FPing_Li&amp;esheet=50397191&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Ping+Li&amp;index=6&amp;md5=3919c34610b7d10319280e7ed30cf253\">Ping Li<\/a>, General Partner at Accel, who will join Tenable\u2019s board of directors. \u201cIT security practitioners fight the constant battle to stay ahead of network attacks, and it\u2019s only getting harder. Many of these practitioners globally rely on Tenable for their vulnerability management platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tenable\u2019s SecurityCenter is the only security platform combining essential active and innovative passive vulnerability scanning, real-time network monitoring, and configuration and compliance management. Tenable\u2019s Nessus, the industry\u2019s most widely deployed vulnerability scanner, provides the deepest database of known vulnerabilities and compliance risks on the market today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=3d44eedd-27a2-4ad2-8ccb-f1d0604ac5ed\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/m_rotazxjTBFq_q79un9P8uO_Eg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/m_rotazxjTBFq_q79un9P8uO_Eg\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/m_rotazxjTBFq_q79un9P8uO_Eg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/m_rotazxjTBFq_q79un9P8uO_Eg\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/3gcGvV0Ab5g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investment to accelerate technology innovation and global expansion     COLUMBIA, Md.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Tenable        Network Security, Inc., whose widely used software identifies        network security gaps before they are exploited by atta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,878,879,303],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accel-partners","category-tenable","category-tenable-network-security","category-venture-funding","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}