Orion Hindawi (born 1980) is an American billionaire software entrepreneur, and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Tanium.
He is the son of billionaire David Hindawi, an Iraqi Jewish immigrant from Israel.
[2] In September 2015, they raised $120 million in new funding that valued Tanium at $10 billion.
[2] Tanium uses a novel 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 linear chain 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.
[2] In 2023, Orion stepped down as CEO and appointed Dan Streetman as a replacement.