Titania's history is intertwined with that of Nipper. The original public release of Nipper was made with the Titania web site as its home. In 2009 Titania was registered as a company in the UK with the aim of continuing the development of Nipper and other useful software applications.

Nipper began life in May 2006 as a simple C program called CiscoParse written by Ian Ventura-Whiting. It started because there was a requirement for a tool to quickly extract settings and reverse Cisco type-7 passwords from a large batch of Cicso router configuration files. The idea or processing the files manually was not very attractive.

Over a period of months following its birth, CiscoParse expanded with more and more settings and a facility to output the results in a nicely formatted HTML document was added. At the time, CiscoParse was used only for identifying potential security issues and it seemed to make sence to add some extra code so that the security report itself would be written. Within a year CiscoParse not only supported configuration files from several types of Cisco devices and output the reports in several different formats, but the first non-Cisco device type was added (Juniper NetScreen firewalls). So CiscoParse became Nipper. The Nipper name comes from being a Network Infrastructure Parser (with an extra P for good measure).

Originally Nipper, and CiscoParse before it, were distributed between a small number of security professionals for use everyday penetration testing work. As Nipper became more popular, and feedback was increasing as many more people were using it for their own professional use, Nipper was publically released as version 0.9.0 on the 23rd March 2007.

Today Nipper stands as a highly respected security assessment tool with a huge number of users worldwide for governments, military, financial institutions, service providers, security companies, businesses small and large.

Titania is the name given to the largest moon of Uranus, the eigth largest moon in the solar system. The moon was first discovered by William Herschel on 11th January 1789. The mass of Titania is 3,530,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg with a radius of almost 789 km.

You can find out more information about Titania from NASA.