Amit Yoran

In April 1998, during the dot-com bubble, along with his two brothers and Tim Belcher, founded RipTech. It began operations in December 1999 and raised $45 million in venture capital from Columbia Capital, Providence Equity, and Broadview Capital.^[5] It was sold to Symantec (now Gen Digital) in August 2002 for $145 million in cash.^[4][1]

In September 2003, he was named director of the newly created National Cyber Security Division within the United States Department of Homeland Security. There, he oversaw the creation of a cyber alert system that sends out warnings about computer viruses and net attacks. He resigned from the position abruptly in October 2004.^[6][7]

In January 2006, he was named CEO of In-Q-Tel.^[8] He resigned in April 2006 after less than four months in the position.^[9] At that time, he was also a member of the board of directors of Trust Digital, Guidance Software, and Guardium.^[10]

In November 2006, he was named CEO of Netwitness.^[11]

In October 2014, Yoran was named president of RSA.^[12]

Effective January 2017, he was named CEO of Tenable, Inc.^[13]

In August 2023, he accused Microsoft of putting its customers at risk after he revealed the existence of a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Azure.^[14]

Yoran was married to Catherine Lotrionte and had three children,^[2][9] including a set of twins.^[7] Yoran died from cancer on January 3, 2025, at the age of 54.^[15][16]