We're continuing as an independent business; the two biggest changes are (1) we're hiring more people than our original plan, and (2) we get to work directly with our friends and rivals at iSEC, who were bought by NCC 2 years ago.
(2) is a big deal --- there are so many smart people doing what we do at NCC companies that we expect research time to get way more productive; also, iSEC and NGS/NCC (the UK "us") have different research focuses, like Android and 3G to our crypto and trading protocols. Black Hat next year should be fun. (there are crypto people at iSEC; I'm sleep deprived and on an airplane)
Yeah I'd reckon with the depth and breadth of talent across the testing business now, it should be really cool. I hope they make the internal information sharing/collaboration piece a priority.
