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 formerly viaprotect is a chicago based mobile security company that publishes mobile app and device security software . contents 1 2009 beginnings 2 2009 2014 from forensics to security 3 2014 present rebrand to nowsecure 4 products 5 see also 6 references 7 external links 2009 beginnings edit 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 . citation needed 2009 2014 from forensics to security edit hoog and his wife 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 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 coding problems and opportunities for reverse engineering . viaforensics was the subject of inc 5000 s 13 fastest growing tech company in the us award in 2014 . 3 2014 present rebrand to nowsecure edit in 2014 viaforensics launched viaprotect 4 an app to show users destinations and sources of data to and from their mobile devices at rsa conference . 5 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 as nowsecure . 6 products edit nowsecure is the publisher of nowsecure forensics formerly viaextract nowsecure lab formerly vialab and the nowsecure mobile apps formerly viaprotect . nowsecure forensics is designed for law enforcement to extract artifacts from mobile devices by applying deleted data recovery and data search . nowsecure lab is mobile app vulnerability scanning software . 7 nowsecure mobile is a free end user oriented vulnerability scanner for ios android and blackphone . in 2014 and 2015 pc magazine awarded viaprotect its editor s choice for android privacy utilities . 8 see also edit mobile security references edit mclean tessa january 12 2015 . 6 secrets to nowsecure s success . built in chicago . retrieved february 20 2015 . http www.pr.com press release 329506 http www.inc.com profile viaforensics 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 . http bgr.com 2014 03 13 viaprotect online privacy android app graham meg december 2 2014 . viaforensics raises 12.5 million in funding rebrands as nowsecure . chicago tribune blue sky . retrieved february 20 2015 . pletz john september 11 2014 . is your app secure viaforensics can tell . crain s chicago business . retrieved february 20 2015 . eddy max march 24 2014 . viaprotect for android . pc mag . retrieved february 20 2015 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nowsecure & oldid 743336944 categories android operating system softwarecomputer security companiescomputer security software companiesios softwaremobile securitycompanies based in chicago2009 establishments in illinoishidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 04 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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