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Ron Gula

Founder

Ron Gula is listed as a founder of Tenable on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

Quick Facts

Role Founder
Company Tenable
Country United States
Industry AI in Cybersecurity
Founded 2002
Known For Tenable's Nessus scanner has been a foundational tool in vulnerability management since before the company that…
Last Reviewed Aug 2026

Ron Gula is listed as a founder of Tenable on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

Verified company milestones linked to this executive’s organization.

1998 Development
April 1998: A 17-year-old Renaud Deraison creates the Nessus vulnerability scanner as an open-source project.
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2002 Company founded
Tenable was founded in 2002 per the company profile source on file.
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2002 Development
September 16, 2002: Deraison, Ron Gula, and Jack Huffard found Tenable Network Security in Columbia, Maryland, commercializing Nessus.
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2005 Development
October 2005: Nessus becomes proprietary software; the codebase is forked into the open-source OpenVAS project.
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2018 Development
2018: Tenable completes its initial public offering on Nasdaq under ticker TENB, raising $250 million.
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2022 Product
October 2022: Tenable launches Tenable One, its unified exposure management platform.
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2025 Acquisition
August 2025: Tenable launches Tenable AI Exposure, following its acquisition of Apex Security, to protect AI-specific attack surfaces.
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2026 Partnership
May 20, 2026: Tenable announces a partnership with Anthropic at its EXPOSURE 2026 conference to power Claude-based workflows in Tenable Hexa AI.
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The Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, unifying vulnerability, cloud, identity, and operational-technology exposure data, powered by…

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Security AI product

The Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, unifying vulnerability, cloud, identity, and operational-technology exposure data, powered by…

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