About Curtail
Our Mission
Curtail keeps businesses running by using live traffic analysis to identify defects before software goes live, and detect and isolate security threats before they impact systems.
Our Technology
Curtail is built on NCAST (Network Comparison Application Security Testing), our patented technology for detecting behavioral differences between software versions. NCAST operates at the packet level, comparing responses from current and candidate versions in real time. It works inline as a proxy or passively as a network tap, handles encrypted traffic via TLS proxying, and requires no code changes, SDKs, or agents.
NCAST powers both of Curtail’s products. ReGrade™ uses it to catch regressions during development and merge requests by replaying recorded traffic against candidate builds. ReCover uses it to monitor production traffic in real time, detect anomalies, and divert traffic away from failing services — providing protection across the entire software delivery lifecycle.
Management Team
Mr. Huerta is a seasoned CEO and founder of four other companies including the security company Recourse Technologies that was sold to Symantec in 2002. Previously he was the CEO and co-founder of TransLattice, Inc. (a distributed relational database company) and Cartilix (a medical device company). Before he started his first company, Mr. Huerta worked and went public at Exodus Communications as Director of Business Development, after starting Exodus’s managed security services business. He has also held product management jobs at Verifone, Seagate Software, and Hughes Aircraft, Santa Barbara Research Center. Currently, he is Chair of the Board of the Santa Barbara School of Squash and a Director of the Ansel Adams Gallery. He previously served on the Board of Trustees of Cate School (2009-2021), the Board of the Arthritis Foundation, Northern California Chapter, Advocacy Chair (2004-2014) and the Stanford Graduate School of Business Management Board (2004-2008).
Mr. Huerta has an MBA from Stanford, Graduate School of Business, and a degree in physics from Harvard University.
Mr. Ross is responsible for technical direction and strategy to bring innovative security solutions to market. Prior to Curtail Security, he was named CTO of TransLattice, Inc. a distributed relational database company. Before joining TransLattice, Mr. Ross was a research scientist at McAfee and a developer at eEye Digital Security, where he discovered security vulnerabilities, developed exploit tools and patches and contributed to the development of endpoint security products. He worked as a senior software engineer at Symantec, where he contributed to the first multi-gigabit protocol analyzer. He also developed deception based systems (commercializing the industry’s first honeypot solution) and (non-signature based) high-speed network intrusion detection systems at Recourse Technologies before it was acquired by Symantec.
Mr. Ross is a holder of more than 15 patents in computer security, database, and distributed systems technologies.