About Us
About the Company
Established in January 2007, we can be contacted in the following manner:
contact [at] heorot [dot] net
PHONE
719.433.3440 – Local Number
719.433.3644 – Regional & On-Site Training
Social Networks
Twitter: @thomas_wilhelm
LinedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomwilhelm
For those of you traveling to Colorado Springs for training, please contact us before making your hotel reservation. So far, we have not had to change venues; but if class sizes exceed our demand, we may need to split the courses up into different groups in order to maintain our maximum course size to ten students.
About the Founder
Thomas Wilhelm has been in involved in Information Security since 1990, where he served in the Army for eight years as a Signals Intelligence Analyst / Russian Linguist / Cryptanalyst. A speaker at security conferences across the U.S., including DefCon, HOPE, and CSI, he is employed by a Fortune 50 company to conduct Risk Assessments, participate and lead in external and internal Penetration Testing efforts, and manage Information Systems Security projects. Thomas is also a Doctoral student who holds Masters degrees in both Computer Science and Management. Additionally, he also dedicates some of his time as an Associate Professor at Colorado Technical University, and has contributed to multiple publications, including both magazines and books. His latest contribution was multiple chapters in the Syngress publication titled “Professional Penetration Testing,” released in August, 2009, which was his fourth book contribution to Syngress.
About the Staff
The staff of Heorot.net consists of programming, project management, and security experts with varying areas of expertise. Dedicated to provide the best in pentest training quality, the staff of Heorot.net strive to improve the courses already available through this site, as well as constantly look to add new courses with real-world value. Each member of the staff is encouraged to obtain industry certifications, and include the following:
- ISSMP
- CISSP
- SCSECA
- SCNA
- SCSA
- IEM
- …and more.
About the Courses
All the courses are designed by the entire staff at Heorot.net, in order to provide expert advice on what to include in the course material. Each course is intended to give the student real-world experience, drawn from those lessons learned by the staff during their careers. The online courses are intended to provide a convenient, self-paced method of learning. These courses cover beginning and intermediate instruction of penetration test procedures, typically used in day-to-day pentest projects. Once the online courses have been completed, a student is ready to move into more advanced topics, which involve regional training using hands-on course material and instruction. These advanced topics allow the professional penetration tester to learn what they need to know in order to succeed in their chosen field. All courses are taught by staff members, who bring their real-world experience to the classroom, providing unique educational opportunities.
About the name “Heorot”
The author of Beowulf (estimated to have been written between 700-750 AD) praises Heorot as follows:
Then, as I have heard, the work of constructing a building
Was proclaimed to many a tribe throughout this middle earth.
In time – quickly, as such things happen among men –
It was all ready, the biggest of halls.
He whose word was law
Far and wide gave it the name ‘Heorot’. (lines 74-79)
The men did not dally; they strode inland in a group
Until they were able to discern the timbered hall,
Splendid and ornamented with gold.
The building in which that powerful man held court
Was the foremost of halls under heaven;
Its radiance shone over many lands. (306-11)
Your corporation, a modern-day Heorot, is an example of what a group of people can create as a team. Unfortunately, like in the poem with Grendel as the antagonist, your corporation is constantly under attack by those who wish to destroy what management has worked hard to accomplish. This site is designed to help provide advice and information to protect your organization against attacks – both internal and external – so your company can continue to succeed in today’s chaotic and hostile information age.