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Core Security
Company typePrivate
IndustryComputer Security
Vulnerability Management
Security Consulting Services
Founded1996
Headquarters
Boston, MA and Buenos Aires, Argentina
Key people
Mark Hatton (President and CEO)
Number of employees
~ 200
Websitewww.coresecurity.com

Core Security Technologies provides security test and measurement solutions that reveal exactly where and how outside attacks can happen on organizations before they occur. The company’s research arm, CoreLabs, proactively identifies new IT security vulnerabilities, publishes public vulnerability advisories, and works with vendors to assist in eliminating the exposures they find.[1]

History

  • 1996: Core Security was founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • 1997: The CoreLabs Research group was established and published their first advisory.
  • 1998: Core conducted its first penetration test for a U.S. company.
  • 1998: Core Security was recognized as an “Endeavor Entrepreneur” by the Endeavor Foundation, a foundation that supports entrepreneurial projects in emerging markets.
  • 2000: The company’s first U.S. office opened in New York, NY.
  • 2002: Core released the first and second versions of their flagship penetration testing product, Core Impact Pro.[2]
  • 2003: The company’s U.S. headquarters was relocated from New York to Boston, MA.
  • 2008: Mark Hatton becomes CEO of Core Security.[3]
  • 2009: Core adds development sites in Boston and India.
  • 2010: Core released new security testing and measurement product, Core Insight Enterprise
  • 2011: Core announces two new security testing and measurement products Core CloudInspect and Core WebVerify.


Company

Management Team[4]

  • Mark Hatton- President and Chief Executive Officer [5]
  • John O´Brien- Executive Vice President of Corporate Operations and CFO
  • Ivan Arce- Chief Technology Officer
  • Milan Shah- Senior Vice President of Engineering
  • Jeffrey Cassidy- Vice President of Business Development
  • Kimberly Legelis- Vice President of Marketing
  • Stephen Pace- Vice President of Sales and Services
  • Paula Varas- Vice President of Engineering
  • Pablo Setuan- Vice President and General Manager of South American Operations


Board of Directors[6]

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Advisory Board

The Core Advisory Board helps to guide the company’s business strategy, vulnerability research and product development plans.[7]

Products

Core Impact Pro: a penetration testing software solution that replicates cyber attacks to assess the security of web applications, network systems, endpoint systems, email users, mobile devices and wireless networks [10][11]

Core Insight Enterprise: an automated security testing and measurement solution that allows for continuous and proactive assessment of the security of an organization's most critical information assets. [12]

Core CloudInspect: a penetration testing software solution that proactively tests Amazon AWS (Amazon Web Service) instances against real-world threats and confirms whether organization's cloud deployments are secure. [13]

Core WebVerify: an automated security testing software provides real-world intelligence on organization’s web application exposures and their implications using the same techniques employed by actual attackers. [14]

Services

Security Consulting Services: in-depth penetration testing and source code auditing services group who conducts custom security assessment engagements leveraging CORE IMPACT technologies, along with other public, custom and professional tools, to offer clients a full set of security analysis tasks that would otherwise demand expensive and hard-to-find security testing staff. [15]

CORE IMPACT Professional Services: provide targeted penetration testing engagements to small and medium-sized business that require ad-hoc or scheduled assessments of their IT assets. [16]

CORE IMPACT Certified Professional (CICP) Training and Certification: introductory course to IMPACT Pro and the wizard-driven RPTs (Rapid Penetration Tests) for web applications, network systems, end users and their systems, wireless networks, and network devices. [17]

CORE IMPACT Certified Advanced Professional (CICAP) Training and Certification: designed for CICP recipients who are seeking to expand their security assessments by gaining an advanced knowledge of CORE IMPACT interested in learning how it can be utilized with various modules to address large- or small-scale network assessments, customized and covert client-side engagements, or deep web application tests. [18]


Facilities

Core Security is headquartered in Boston, MA, and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Research and Advisories

Core Security’s research department, CoreLabs, conducts research in various areas of computer security, including system vulnerabilities, cyber attack planning and simulation, source code auditing and cryptography. CoreLabs regularly publishes security advisories, technical papers, project information and shared software tools for public use, with its researchers participating in many IT security research conferences including the Black Hat Briefings .[19][20]

Recent Advisories [21]

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2010/08/30/story11.html
  2. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/core-security-technologies-announces-first-comprehensive-penetration-testing
  3. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/core-security-technologies-appoints-new-ceo-relocates-corporate
  4. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/management-team
  5. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/core-security-technologies-appoints-new-ceo-relocates-corporate
  6. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/board-of-directors
  7. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/core-advisory-board
  8. ^ http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2010/prod_020210c.html
  9. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/board-of-directors
  10. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/security-testing-and-penetration-testing-products-and-services
  11. ^ http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/product-review-core-impact-penetration-tester-goes-phishing-390
  12. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/CORE-INSIGHT-Enterprise
  13. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/Core-CloudInspect-Cloud-Security-Testing-for-AWS
  14. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/core-web-verify
  15. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/services-overview-core-security-consulting-services
  16. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/Professional-Services
  17. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/CICP-Training-and-Certification
  18. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/CICP-Training-and-Certification
  19. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/corelabs-advisories
  20. ^ http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9176373/Security_firm_reveals_Microsoft_s_silent_patches?taxonomyId=17&pageNumber=1
  21. ^ http://www.coresecurity.com/content/corelabs-advisories
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