NowSecure

NowSecure
Private
Industry Mobile Security, Security software
Predecessor viaForensics
Founded United States
Headquarters United States
Area served
 International
Key people
 Andrew Hoog, Chee-Young Kim
Products The NowSecure Mobile Apps, NowSecure Forensics, NowSecure Lab
Number of employees
 51-200
Website www.nowsecure.com

NowSecure is a Chicago-based mobile security company that provides insight about mobile device behavior to both private and business devices as well as analyzes app security.

2009: Beginnings

CEO and co-founder Andrew Hoog was working as a CIO when one of his employees was dismissed. After this dismissal, Hoog was tasked with reviewing whether the employee had stolen any sensitive data from the company. Rather than hire a forensics firm to investigate, Hoog performed the investigation himself and continued to do forensic work on the side.

2009-2014: From Forensics to Security

Hoog and Chee-Young Kim both contributed money to start the company, originally known as Chicago Electronic Discovery and then as viaForensics.[1] Hoog devoted himself full-time to mobile forensics, while Kim continued to work at her corporate job during the day and participated in the business development at night and on weekends. In March 2011, viaForensics was profitable to the extent that it could pay for employee benefits, so Kim left her job and went to work at viaForensics full-time. On June 5 of that year, viaExtract 1.0 was released at a conference in Myrtle Beach.[2] This product, aimed at law enforcement officials, provided deleted data recovery and automated search through data. viaForensics introduced what was known as viaLab in March 2013. viaLab was a product that allowed automated testing for a variety of security flaws in apps, including man-in-the-middle attacks, SSL strip attacks, app coding and reversing, and more.

2014-Present: Rebrand to NowSecure

In 2014, viaForensics launched viaProtect,[3] an app to show users destinations and sources of data to and from their mobile devices, at RSA Conference.[4] The company then began to focus more on similar individual and enterprise device protection. As a result of this focus shift, viaForensics decided to rebrand. On December 2, 2014 viaForensics concurrently announced receipt of $12.5 million in venture capital[5] and its name change to NowSecure.[6]

Products

NowSecure offers NowSecure Forensics (formerly viaExtract), NowSecure Lab (formerly viaLab), and the NowSecure Mobile Apps (formerly viaProtect). NowSecure Forensics allows law enforcement users to perform artifact extractions on mobile devices. NowSecure Lab allows an enterprise to run attacks against their mobile apps to determine safety and privacy capabilities.[7] NowSecure Mobile is a free mobile app to download for iOS, Android, and Blackphone.

Recognition

Honoree Title Awarded By Year
viaForensics #760 fastest-growing company in the US INC 5000 2014
viaForensics #13 fastest-growing tech company in the US INC 5000[8] 2014
viaForensics Phase III SBIR Contract US Government 2014
viaProtect Editor's Choice for Android Privacy Utilities PC Magazine[9] 2014, 2015

See also

References

  1. ↑ McLean, Tessa (January 12, 2015). "6 secrets to NowSecure's success". Built In Chicago. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  2. ↑ http://www.pr.com/press-release/329506
  3. ↑ Smith, Chris (March 13, 2014). "Spy on the NSA as it spies on you with this new Android app". Boy Genius Report. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  4. ↑ http://bgr.com/2014/03/13/viaprotect-online-privacy-android-app/
  5. ↑ Dameron, Emerson (December 2, 2014). "NowSecure lands $12.5M in Series A funding for mobile safety". Built In Chicago. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  6. ↑ Graham, Meg (December 2, 2014). "ViaForensics raises $12.5 million in funding, rebrands as NowSecure". Chicago Tribune Blue Sky. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  7. ↑ Pletz, John (September 11, 2014). "Is your app secure? viaForensics can tell". Crain's Chicago Business. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  8. ↑ http://www.inc.com/profile/viaforensics
  9. ↑ Eddy, Max (March 24, 2014). "viaProtect (for Android)". PC Mag. Retrieved February 20, 2015.

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