Ciphent
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Ciphent was formed in 2006 by security experts with experience at some business and security organizations to include Foundstone, Bank of America
Bank of America
Bank of America Corporation, an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. The bank is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina...

, Guardent, Booz Allen, CSC, Information Security Magazine and Fortify Security. Ciphent was acquired by Accuvant in September 2010.

Ciphent's Services

Ciphent's practice includes strategic functions such as security budget consolidation, achieving compliance, and policy development. The Ciphent Consulting organization specializes in cyber security assessments, application and software security, and incident response.

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.

About Ciphent

Ciphent was a private company headquartered in the Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...

/Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

Metropolitan area until 2010 when it was purchased by Denver-based Accuvant Inc. At the time of the purchase, Ciphent and had over 150 clients ranging from 2 million to 80 billion in annual revenue.
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