as reliable software technologies renamed in 2000 to cigital 1 headquarters dulles va u. s. number of locations atlanta bangalore bloomington boston chicago dallas minneapolis new york santa clara seattle london area served worldwide key people gary mcgraw services architecture analysis ethical hacking penetration testing static analysis training policy development owner privately held number of employees 400 security consultants 2 slogan building security in website cigital.com cigital is a software security firm based in dulles va. 3 services include application security testing penetration testing and architecture analysis . cigital also provides instructor led security training and products such as secureassist a static analysis tool that acts as an application security spellchecker for developers . 4 5 6 7 8 contents 1 history 2 products 3 clients 4 acquisitions 5 references 6 external links history edit cigital was established in 1992 with grants from darpa 9 10 in 1999 the firm created its4 which according to cigital was the world s first static analysis tool . 11 the technology in this product was eventually licensed to kleiner perkins and used as the basis for the creation of fortify software in 1999 . in 2010 fortify was acquired by hewlett packard for 300 million . 12 bsimm build security in maturity model is a software security measurement framework that helps organizations compare their software security to other organizations . 13 bsimm was started as a joint project by cigital and fortify software . 14 15 in 2002 cigital announced finding a vulnerability in visual c . net compiler 16 17 18 related to a gs compiler flag being inefficient . 19 cigital was criticized for not following responsible disclosure in this case 19 however cigital has defended its position due to the nature of the vulnerability . 19 products edit cigital secureassist identifies security bugs 20 within the ide and provides custom guidance to developers in reducing defects in future development . citation needed buildsecure elibrary is an online portal containing a suite of software security training classes . 21 enterprise security portal tracks identified security bugs and checks for omissions to ensure a thorough analysis of the software . citation needed cigital has published 20 books and research articles on software security . in 2009 they found that poker games such as texas hold em involve considerable skill . 22 clients edit cigital serves numerous fortune 500 and fortune 100 companies including american express aetna bank of america intuit jp morgan chase and avis . 23 24 acquisitions edit in november 2014 cigital acquired iviz security an information security company which is into on demand application penetration testing . references edit cigital inc. profile the cigital story . cigital . may 2016 . retrieved may 27 2016 . schafer sarah january 25 2001 . cigital helps wired world stay that way ; dulles firm works to minimize its clients risks of software failure . the washington post . retrieved october 12 2014 via highbeam research . subscription required help . http www.cigital.com johnston nicholas august 26 2002 . cigital sees secure opportunities ; already profitable the 10 year old software maker is poised to grow . the washington post . retrieved october 12 2014 via highbeam research . subscription required help . overly steven october 7 2013 . the download dulles based cigital secures 50m from private equity firm lr partners posted 2013 10 07 15 56 28 ; software security firm brings in private equity shop to expand in existing markets reach new ones . the washington post . retrieved october 12 2014 via highbeam research . subscription required help . king mason october 7 2013 . town gown and techies team up in bloomington . indianapolis business journal . retrieved april 9 2012 via highbeam research . subscription required help . smeltz adam october 7 2013 . hackers who attack u.s. in line for lucrative payoffs . pittsburgh tribune review . retrieved october 27 2012 via highbeam research . subscription required help . calnan christopher . praetorian pours profits into new products . retrieved 28 june 2013 . reliable software technologies corp. . sbirsource . retrieved 29 july 2013 . its4 software security tool . retrieved 21 april 2015 . rao leena . hp acquires software security company fortify . tech crunch . mcgraw gary ; rian chess ; sammy migues march 16 2009 . software in security the building security in maturity model bsimm . informit . retrieved 28 june 2013 . the rocky road to more secure code wall street and technology new effort hopes to improve software security wall street journal microsoft s new compiler program has security flaw consultancy says . wsj flaw spotted in new microsoft tool . cnet net security company reports flaw . associated press . february 15 2002 . retrieved october 12 2014 via highbeam research . subscription required help . a b c was cigital security warning too hasty cnet cigital releases software security training for developers . dark reading . august 12 2010 . retrieved 28 june 2013 . cigital partners with fs isac to provide training to members . at war with luck . the economist . july 10 2010 . retrieved october 27 2012 via highbeam research . subscription required help . cigital s bloomington office makes a big splash in the midwest cloud services for application security . cigital . september 30 2013 . retrieved 27 may 2016 . insight into scaling automated code review . cigital . september 30 2013 . retrieved 27 may 2016 . external links edit cigital website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cigital & oldid 725870323 categories software companies based in virginiacompanies based in dulles virginiahidden categories pages containing links to subscription only contentall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from november 2013 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 add links this page was last modified on 18 june 2016 at 11 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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