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Tenable Agrees to Acquire Bit Discovery
April 2022 by Marc Jacob
Tenable Holdings, Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Bit Discovery, Inc. (“Bit Discovery”), a leader in external attack surface management (EASM). Combining Tenable’s market-leading Cyber Exposure solutions with Bit Discovery’s EASM capabilities will provide customers with a differentiated 360-degree view of the modern attack surface – both inside out and outside in – to identify and eliminate areas of known and unknown security risk.
Discovering and gaining insight into every part of a business’s digital footprint are essential steps of any effective cybersecurity program. Discovery has never been more critical, given the reliance on critical internet-facing services, applications and APIs. The problem for most organizations is that they are largely blind to the full and ever-changing scope of internet-facing assets and services. With its powerful EASM solution, Bit Discovery eliminates this problem by continuously monitoring the Internet, allowing customers to rapidly discover and identify all externally facing assets that could become exploitable targets by cyber criminals.
After closing, Tenable will leverage Bit Discovery’s EASM solutions across its entire portfolio – from enterprise vulnerability management (VM) to Nessus, from cloud to operational technology (OT) to identity. Once integrated, customers will have the ability to assess the security posture of their entire attack surface and understand each of these in the context of an attack path which might exist from external systems to critical assets. By covering both external and internal assets, Tenable will provide a comprehensive view of vulnerabilities and cyber risk, allowing customers to prioritize remediation efforts and minimize cyber exposure.
Bit Discovery was founded by Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen. Grossman, who also founded WhiteHat Security, has spent approximately 20 years in information security, during which he has become an industry luminary. Hansen previously served as a security pioneer at eBay, where he was responsible for authentication as well as anti-fraud and anti-phishing technologies.
Under the terms of the agreement, Tenable will acquire Bit Discovery for a total purchase price of $44.5 million in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. The acquisition is expected to close later in the second quarter of 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Bit Discovery is not expected to have a significant impact on Tenable’s financial results in the second quarter. For the second half of the year, revenue is not expected to be significant, but Bit Discovery is expected to add $2 million to $3 million of Calculated Current Billings, most notably in the latter part of the year, and $2 million to $3 million of non-GAAP Net Loss.
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