Venture-capital fixed Andreessen Horowitz is introduction its second-biggest expect eternally on an unheralded tool in support of corporate-technology departments.
The fixed, accepted in support of patronage Facebook Inc. FB +0.25% and Pinterest Inc., with others, is investing $90 million in the sphere of Tanium Inc., which helps companies pinpoint security threats and get by their expansive central processing unit networks. Andreessen Horowitz's investment standards seven-year-old Tanium by the side of $900 million, according to group familiar with the transaction.
Orion Hindawi, who founded Tanium with his father, thought the company's know-how offers a near-instant snapshot of potentially malicious software in the sphere of corporate-computing networks, at that moment lets employees wipe old hat the discarded software at all. Mr. Hindawi thought many anti-hacker tools, by contrast, let somebody have companies in a row with the aim of is hours or else days old, and can be present ineffective if companies don't know someplace to erect security barriers.
In support of Andreessen Horowitz, the Tanium investment trails solitary the $100 million the fixed invested in the sphere of 2012 in the sphere of software-code startup GitHub Inc. The expect reflects investors' enthusiasm in support of a new to the job breed of corporate technologies to struggle with digital vulnerabilities in the sphere of the wake of cyberattacks on Target Corp. TGT -0.77% and others.
Mr. Hindawi thought Tanium leads its pitch with security for the reason that of companies' desire to watch over themselves, but the know-how besides helps customers television each PC, central processing unit head waiter and sample of software on a corporate set of connections. Single customer using Tanium found 200 central processing unit servers with the aim of weren't being used. It scrapped the hardware by the side of a saving of $2 million a time, Mr. Hindawi thought.
"Once you realize you can persuade real-time data, it pervades everything with the aim of you complete," Mr. Hindawi thought.
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