American firm Tenable appoints Rajnish Gupta as MD & Country Manager in India

American exposure management company Tenable recently announced the appointment of Rajnish Gupta as Managing Director for India and SAARC.

At Tenable, he will lead strategic initiatives, oversee operations, and drive the continued growth of business and channel activities across the region. 

The company said that the latest appointment aligns with its rapid expansion of its cloud capabilities and exposure management platform, enabling organisations to know, expose and close their cyber exposure gaps.

What does Tenable do?

Tenable is an exposure management company that exposes and closes the cybersecurity gaps that erode business value, reputation, and trust.

The company’s AI-powered exposure management platform radically unifies security visibility, insight, and action across the attack surface, equipping modern organisations to protect against attacks from IT infrastructure to cloud environments to critical infrastructure and everywhere in between.

Tenable claims that it reduces business risk for more than 44,000 customers around the globe.

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Rajnish Gupta's experience

With over 30 years of IT and cybersecurity experience driving momentum for enterprises, Gupta joins Tenable from Palo Alto Networks, where he was the India Country Director for the Cortex division.

Prior to that, Gupta was a senior director and cybersecurity leader at Microsoft.

“With the modern attack surface rapidly expanding in both size and complexity and security teams managing multiple clouds and identities across a converged IoT, OT, and IT landscape, we must continue helping our customers bridge the gap in how business and security leaders understand and manage cyber risk,” said Rajnish Gupta.

“I look forward to working with our customers and partners to navigate the complex and ever-changing cybersecurity landscape.” 

Leadership comments

“Rajnish’s extensive experience in finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, public sector, and his deep knowledge of cybersecurity will be instrumental in driving further growth in the region,” said Nigel Ng, Senior Vice President, Tenable Asia Pacific and Japan.

“I’m confident that under Rajnish’s leadership, we will achieve significant advancements in delivering security solutions that address the evolving needs of our clients, ensuring they can understand and remediate their risk.”