Ntrepid is a software, hardware, and cyber security company, registered in Florida and based in Herndon, VA. In 2008, the Anonymizer company was acquired by the Abraxas Corporation, which was itself purchased by Cubic in 2010 Some of Abraxas' former employees left to form Ntrepid that same year. Lance Cottrell, founder of Anonymizer, is the chief scientist at Ntrepid. Anonymizer is wholly owned by Ntrepid. In March 2011, Ntrepid won a $2.76 million contract from the U.S. military for "online persona management. The contract was for the creation of technology which would allow for blogging activities on websites, exclusively outside of the United States, to "counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda. It would allow for one operator to anonymously create and control up to ten personas from one computer. Each persona would have a background, history, supporting details, and cyber presence that is consistent from a technical, cultural, and geographic standpoint. ]mproving Data Harvesting, Malware Protection, International Data Scraping Episode, Cookies and Web Scraping, Browser Fingerprints and Scraping
