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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001660280-21-000150"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TENB"
cik: "0001660280"
company_name: "Tenable Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-09-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T04:13:34.251710+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tenable acquires Accurics for $160M cash; deal expected late Q3/early Q4 2021

## Summary
- Total purchase price ~$160M in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments.
- Accurics provides cloud-native security for infrastructure as code (IaC), including automated remediation.
- Acquisition expected to close late Q3 or early Q4 2021, subject to customary closing conditions.
- Accurics' offerings will integrate with Tenable.io Container Security, Frictionless Assessment, and Web Application Scanning.
- Accurics founders Piyush Sharrma (CEO) and Om Moolchandani (CTO/CISO) currently lead the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001660280-21-000150
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TENB
- cik: 0001660280
- company_name: Tenable Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-09-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1660280/000166028021000150/0001660280-21-000150-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1660280/000166028021000150/tenb-20210913.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001660280-21-000150.txt

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