NCC Group

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NCC Group (LSE: NCC) is an information assurance firm headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom. Its service areas cover software escrow and verification, cyber security consulting and managed services, website performance, software testing and domain services. NCC Group claims over 15,000 clients worldwide. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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History

NCC Group was formed in June 1999, when the National Computing Centre sold its commercial divisions to its existing management team supported by private equity firm ECI Ventures. This new company was named NCC Services Ltd and was renamed NCC Group Ltd in May 2000. In 2000, Rob Cotton was hired as finance director and subsequently took responsibility for the Group's escrow division. In 2003 he led a secondary management buyout and became chief executive of NCC Group Ltd. This valued the Group at £30 million and was supported by Barclays Private Equity.

On 12 July 2004 NCC Group was admitted to trading on AIM, with the flotation raising £38.1 million before expenses. After rapid expansion, in July 2007 the Group made the move to the London Stock Exchange's main market.

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Acquisitions

NCC Group has expanded through a mixture of organic growth and acquisitions, as outlined below.

2006 Recall Total Information Management's escrow division
2006 Source Harbor
2007 Secure Test
2007 Site Confidence
2008 Escrow Europe
2008 Next Generation Security Software (NGS)
2010 iSEC Partners Inc
2010 SDLC Solutions
2010 Meridian Services International
2011 Axzona Ltd
2011 Escrow Associates
2012 Matasano Security
2012 Intrepidus Group
2014 FortConsult A/S
2015 Open Registry Group
2015 Accumuli
2015 Fox-IT
2016 Payment Software Company, Inc.
2016 VSR, Inc.

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Services

NCC Group's services are divided into the following areas:

Software escrow and verification
Assurance
- Security consulting
  - Risk Management & Governance
  - Technical Security Consulting
  - Cyber Defence Operations and Incident Response
  - Security managed services
    - Managed Security Scanning Services
    - Two 24/7 Security Operations Centres
- Web performance
- Software testing
Domain Services

.secure

In 2012 NCC Group announced the investment of £6 million over 15 months in a wholly owned subsidiary, Artemis Internet. This was used to apply for a new .secure generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) and develop an associated security programme.