Ten years, a decade, it’s a very long time, and yet passes in the blink of an eye.
I joined Tenable ten years ago, and somehow they have not
tired of me yet. I had known Ron Gula and Jack Huffard for a few years before I
joined, we had tried to find a fit for me at Tenable a few times before, but in
2011 Astaro was being acquired and we decided that there was a good fit for me
as the first person to fill the role of product manager at Tenable.
In 2011 I joined a company of just over 120 people, big
enough and mature enough to be stable and profitable, but small enough that it
had the excitement of a startup. It was an amazing team, led by Ron, Jack, and Renaud,
including Marcus Ranum, Paul Asadoorian, Carlos Perez, Jon Brody, and many
more. Over the years the company evolved, the team was joined by Gavin Millard,
Space Rogue, Jeff Man, and other friends who spent some time with us at Tenable.
It has been great watching the career progression for all of those who remain
at Tenable, and those whose career paths led them elsewhere.
Tenable today is much larger, it is a successful publicly
traded company, and Tenable still has a great team, led for the past few years
by Amit Yoran. There has been a lot of change, but there are still more than a
few folks who have been at Tenable longer than I have. It is funny to think of
someone as young as Renaud as one of the “old timers”, but that’s the tech world.
While my role at Tenable has evolved continuously since
then, Tenable has always supported my community engagement efforts, and they
have always been supportive of me. Life has presented me with a few challenges
over the years; Tenable’s support, and especially the support of Ron and Jack
in the early days, and Amit, Dave Cole, and Gavin more recently, has been
nothing short of amazing. I am eternally grateful for their support,
individually and as an organization.
These days my role is community advocate, a role where I get
to dedicate much of my time to working on a wide variety of projects including
supporting Security BSides, continuing efforts to address stress and burnout in
our communities, the Shoulders of InfoSec history project, and occasional
career studies. It is truly a dream job.
What about the next ten years? I won’t pretend to know what
lies ahead, but I am happy to be starting my second decade at Tenable this
week.
(Note, my usual disclaimer applies here: I rarely speak *for*
Tenable, and am not speaking on their behalf now, this is a personal post, but
I will always *listen* for Tenable and pass feedback and comments along to the
appropriate teams.)
