NexDefense, Inc.
NexDefense provides software products that increase the security and reliability of industrial control systems in critical infrastructure and processes focusing on the power, oil & gas and defense industries. NexDefense founders’ backgrounds include founding the network security intelligence company LogiKeep, now Cisco’s Intellishield™; Chief Security Officer (CSO) for AEP, a Fortune 200 energy company; CSO for North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC); creating the National Board of Security Examiners (NBISE) and the ICS curriculum for the SANS Institute; development of the Global Industrial Control Systems Professional (GICSP) certification; as well as decades of related industry security and technology experience. In October 2013, the Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) signed a Patent and Copyright License giving NexDefense exclusive rights to commercialize its Sophia software. Sophia, an Industrial Network Anomaly Detection (INAD) system, was designed to empower control sy