Hindawi was born and raised in
Berkeley, California, and attended the
University of California, Berkeley. He is the son of billionaire
David Hindawi, an
Iraqi Jewish immigrant from
Israel. In 2007, along with his father, he founded the cybersecurity firm,
Tanium. In September 2015, they raised $120 million in new funding that valued Tanium at $10 billion. 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. In February 2016, Orion took over as CEO from his father. In 2023, Orion stepped down as CEO and appointed Dan Streetman as a replacement. == Personal life ==