(Reuters) – Amit Yoran, the chairman and chief executive of cybersecurity firm Tenable Holdings died on Friday following a battle with cancer, the company said on Saturday.
Yoran, 54, joined Tenable as CEO in 2016 and was credited with steering the company’s growth, including its 2018 initial public offering.
The company said it would continue to operate under the leadership of Chief Financial Officer Steve Vintz and Chief Operating Officer Mark Thurmond, who were appointed as co-CEOs when Yoran took medical leave in December last year.
Yoran was also the chair of the company’s board, a position that now will be held by Art Coviello, Tenable’s lead independent director.
Yoran’s career was marked by influential leadership roles in the cybersecurity industry.
Before joining Tenable, he served as president of Dell Technologies’ RSA cybersecurity unit and as the founding director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s now-retired United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), an agency in protecting Americans from cyberattacks.
Columbia, Maryland-based Tenable competes with Crowdstrike, Qualys and Rapid7 in selling software that businesses and governments use to monitor large computer networks for security vulnerabilities and anomalies that indicate cyber attacks.
(Reporting by Surbhi Misra in Bengaluru; Editing by Sandra Maler)
