About BlackHat Consultants

BlackHat Consultants, LLC was formed by two former military officers with extensive backgrounds in Information Security and Counter Terrorism / Force Protection (CT/FP).  Our vision is based on the core understanding of the necessity for businesses of all sizes and industries to adopt security practices to protect their interests, including their customers, their employees, and their partners. Information Security is necessary for organizations to protect not only their clients, but their employees and partners. Information Security affects everyone in business. Since 2005, we have been selling on-demand Information Security policies online and we are proud to be the first company to offer such a service on the Internet.

Our beliefs at BlackHat Consultants include:

• We are here to help businesses that lack this special knowledge & experience
• Information Security is too important to be left to amateurs
• Every company needs robust security policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines
• Our solution should be affordable to all businesses and simple to obtain
• Security policies must be based on industry-recognized best practices & standards
• Security policies should be written in a business-context so users can understand them

CompTIA Security Trustmark™ Certified Business

In our commitment to security, BlackHat Consultants earned the CompTIA Security Trustmark™  certification. This is a mark of excellence for a business, since the CompTIA Security Trustmark™ identifies IT solution providers that consistently follow security best practices. Currrently, no other dedicated provider of written Information Security policies has this certification. Once again, BlackHat Consultants is leading the pack.

Most IT consultants do not specialize in Information Security, so there is generally a void of attention shown to both regulatory & non-regulatory compliance. Our mission is to fill this void and provide Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) a set of professionally written Information Security policies that their existing IT provider will be able to enact without issue.

Tom Cornelius has a diverse background in Information Security that spans two decades. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY, Tom served as an officer in the U.S. Army as an Information Security Officer (ISO).  Since then, he has worked in both the public and private sectors in positions including a Department of Defense (DoD) Information Security Consultant for the United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM), network engineer, project manager, principal security consultant, security architect, and Information Technology director.

Combining his Information Security expertise with a firm understanding of business as a business owner and technology as a network engineer, Tom spearheaded the policy framework to provide a missing piece for small and medium businesses and has continued to evolve this into the Written Information Security Program (WISP). This project evolved into SecurityWaypoint.com as a way to bring an affordable, professional service to businesses nationwide. If you have any questions for Tom, please feel free to contact him.