Ciphent: A Brief Introduction
Overview
Ciphent was formed in 2006 by industry leading security experts with experience at some of the world’s best known business and security organizations to include Foundstone, Bank of America, Guardent, Booz Allen, CSC, Information Security Magazine and Fortify Security. Ciphent built its reputation as enterprise cyber security experts through publication of numerous books and articles that enhanced the knowledge base of the overall security community.
Ciphent's practice includes strategic functions such as security budget consolidation, achieving compliance, and policy development. From a technical perspective, Ciphent can implement enterprise grade solutions with our technology in a fraction of the time it would take consulting pure-play organizations. We have been engaged to help implement hundreds of complex solutions for Anti-virus, endpoint encryption, host intrusion prevention, data loss prevention, firewalls, network intrusion prevention, and vulnerability management. The Ciphent Consulting organization specializes in cyber security assessments, application and software security, and incident response. Through the combination and infusion of deep application security expertise, software development, and custom technology integration, Ciphent has defined the "Secure Software Development" market.
Ciphent's approach to building and delivering security solutions sets it apart from the crowd. Our team offers a unique combination of patent-pending software and services to help customers evaluate and enhance their security investments. Ciphent Security Objects ™ HealthCheck enables customers to get a Report Card on the current policy configuration for their security products. This technology enables proactive organizations to measure their product configurations to ensure that threats are not “slipping through the cracks.”
Ciphent Security Objects™ Transformation enables customers to convert and migrate their current security policies from one product to another in the click of a button thus saving hundreds of valuable man hours and reducing the element of human error.
Ciphent executives are experts in cyber security, threat, and risk management. Their best-selling books help define the future of the industry, while customers benefit daily from their expertise. Ciphent takes its name from the combination of the terms Cipher and Enterprise. The result: Enterprise-grade Protection.
Value Proposition
The continued adoption of Internet, mobile and wireless capabilities and distributed business platforms and technologies make cyber security one of the most challenging and complex issues facing companies today and businesses that do not remain vigilant can easily become exposed to security threats that destroy critical data or shut down operations.
Today, creating a truly secure IT and business infrastructure requires access to highly specialized knowledge, expertise and intelligence in order to stay at least one step ahead of the evolving risks. Ciphent, one of the world’s foremost authorities on information security, is successfully meeting current technology protection challenges. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of security and business solutions meeting client requirements for effective security solutions.
About Ciphent
Ciphent is a private company headquartered in the Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan area and has over 150 clients ranging from 2 million to 80 billion in annual revenue. Our suite of software, strategic security consulting, and secure development solutions enable government and private industry organizations to evaluate, enhance, and reduce the cost of their cyber security investments. Ciphent is a pre-IPO company that has written over 25 books on cyber and software security.
