nGranTM at a Glance:
Managing Partner: John Kerivan, Ph.D.
Founded: January, 2002
Headquarters: Westford, Massachusetts
Financials: nGran is a privately held company
For more information, contact:
Marketing (978.392.7867) email: info@ngran.com
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What's in a Name . . .
The word nGran comes from the combination of two concepts: networking
and granularity. This means that our solutions consider the IT models as well
as the skills of the people who administer the
networks, the processes used to
safeguard the information, and the security
tools used to support the IT infrastructure.
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Company History
nGran was founded in January of 2002. Since that time,
it has operated as a profitable consultancy offering professional services and
a variety of system, application, and network security analysis tools. The
tools have been developed to identify and prevent complex network security
attacks based on behavioral techniques that identify network security anomalies
in real time, block attacks at the point of origin, and permit the secure
correlation of complex network security problems.
nGran also markets and supports focused development and
security services to Fortune 2000 corporations, federal and state governments
through direct sales and support as well as channel partners.
nGran Founder
JOHN KERIVAN - Managing Partner
Dr. John Kerivan (Jack) is a Managing Partner of nGran, LLC.
His current duties are those of a Senior Business Consulting manager and
technologist that includes managing a group of Professional Services and
development consultants to deliver systems integration, network security
software products and associated services. Jack has been providing network and
security solutions to numerous companies for the past 17 years. He has worked
as a senior technical executive in startups, as well as in major corporations,
developing many network security based applications for large multi vendor
networks. Jack is the lead developer of the Self-Defending Security Test Suite
used to evaluate the resistence of various security software solutions to
improper termination. Jack is also the lead developer for the Sentinel, TAS
Terminator and TAS-Watch security products. He is the primary developer of the
Network Early Warning System (NEWS). NEWS is a suite of security programs that
perform behavioral based security & network analysis, defense, monitoring
and diagnostic checks for computers and communications equipment in LANs or
WANs. Jack has given numerous talks and papers on security solutions, including
a tutorial on "Securing the Enterprise"
at the 2003 IEEE Infocom conference, and "Self Defending Security
Software" at the 2005 Milcom conference. He has also recently published an
article on "Heuristic Security-Testing Methods", in April, 2006 for
the Journal of Digital Forensic Practice. He has held a variety of management
posts in government and industry and is an active member of the IEEE,
Communications Society. He has held technical & management positions in Digital
Equipment Corporation and worked as a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T
Bell Laboratories. Jack received a B.A. in 1971 from the University
of Massachusetts, an M.A. in 1975 from
the University of Connecticut and completed his formal training with a
Ph.D. in Communications Sciences at the University of Connecticut
in 1978.
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nGran Principals
Larry Brandt - Senior Technical Consultant
Larry has over 20 years of progressive technical and security experience spanning programming in IBM environments, network security design, implementation and maintenance. Larry's background includes extensive implementation and use of VPN and WAN technologies based on Remote Access (analog, ISDN, DSL, Cable modem, IPSec- & SSL-based VPNs, client routers) allowing quick deployment of new connectivity for client and employee initiatives. GUI-based DNS / IP management, RSA SecurID/ACE servers & tokens, firewalls, intrusion detection, wireless LANs, web servers and Sybase databases which bolstered, secured and documented corporate initiatives. He has extensive knowledge of systems, computer languages, a variety of operating systems, hardware and applications. Larry received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Southern Connecticut State University in 1986. He is certified in numerous platforms, including Cisco, Checkpoint F/W's and other networking and security equipment.
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Chuck Dunn - Senior Consultant
Chuck is a Senior Consultant with over 10
years experience in providing various custom solutions to businesses
nationwide, with an emphasis on custom application development and systems
integration. Chuck has developed several web/internet based solutions
which integrate with enterprise data and are focused on the use of safe
programming practices. Chucks skills include expertise in creating
Microsoft based systems using Borland Delphi and C/C++ which integrate with
enterprise data via various DB engines, SQL and ODBC. His Web development
technology skills base also includes XML, VXML, SOAP, Web Services, Perl, Cold
Fusion, CGI, ISAPI, HTML, JavaScript, J2EE, J2ME, WML, WAP, PHP, Apache and IIS
config. Other technology skills include JRun, Tomcat, Websphere, Eclipse,
Sybase Adaptive Server, MySQL, MS SQL. Chuck has numerous projects to his
credit and has successfully created mobile device applications which integrate
with enterprise data, using WML, WAP, J2ME, XML, SOAP and web services. He
holds a bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science from Merrimack College
in North Andover MA.
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