David Hindawi (Arabic: ديفيد هنداوي; born 1944) is an Iraqi-born, American billionaire software entrepreneur, and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Tanium.
[1] Hindawi was born on December 8, 1944, to an Iraqi-Jewish family in Baghdad and moved to Israel in 1951.
[2] In 1984, he founded a telecommunications company, Software Ventures, which was sold to an Internet service provider in 1995.
[2] Tanium uses an approach to cybersecurity different from its main competitors Symantec and Intel's McAfee which have a central data center that communicates directly with individual computers (and requiring a massive investment in data centers), Tanium instead uses a peer-to-peer system where each computer on a network talks to the computer adjacent to it, pooling data, and then relaying the information in a chain before sending it back to a single server.
[3] In February 2016, Orion took over as CEO from his father, who continued to serve as the company's executive chairman.