Packetninjas L.L.C

Packetninjas L.L.C was formed after seeing that there was a need for honest and truly experienced security assessments and recommendations based on what customers really need while relying on conceptialization, knowledge and and true process. In short, we wanted to be set apart from all the "scanner" companies.
Packetninjas provides solutions for both large and small businesses, corporations and government entities with security disciplines that fit where the customer is in their security life cycle while complimenting existing business needs. Let us step you through the process.

Daniel Clemens (CEO, Founder): Mr. Clemens has worked for various companies over the last 10 years in varying roles from Sr. Security Engineer , Intrusion Detection Analysis & Incident Response, Forensic Analysis and vulnerablity & threat advisor. He also worked at Healthsouth (one of the first companies in the U.S. to be prosecuted under Sarbanes Oxley), focusing on compliance, penetration testing, architecture review, perimeter defense, forensic investigations & incident response , malware and anti-virus strategies. Daniel previously worked in the dot-.com era with disciplines rooted in network & system administration. Mr. Clemens has also helped foster security awareness through being a founding member in the Birmingham Infragard chapter as well as a serving as vice president and president and board member for this group.

There are allot of elements that can make up differences. Some of the differences we believe exist in our case boil down to a few things.

The Hacker Work Ethic, Method Based Approach, Strategic Planning and Diverse Technical Experiences are all things that we rely on that in turn help large enterprises and small businesses alike.

Describing each of these elements could probably turn a conversation over coffee into a deep philosophical discussion but we would like to scratch the surface on some of these details.

The Hacker Work Ethic
The Hacker Ethic has been described and possibly misused more than it has been completely understood, but for us the Hacker Ethic means the following.
Asking why questions more than how, finding the root cause of a problem, implementing goals and plans strategically versus knee jerk reactions, and finally having fun and approaching each opportunity with curiosity and wonder, while being determined to do our job with excellence.

Method Based Approach
Whether the process is forensics, a remote penetration test, web application assessment, threat modeling or even reverse enginering and malware analysis all of our processes are based on a method based approach not solely on an automated tool.(Automated tools help us in our process, but they aren't the end all be all) This helps provide flexibility for security analysis as well as a repeatable scalable process that is thorough and not based on the single perspective of one person's automated tool.

Diverse Technical Experience
Last but not least, a large variety of technical experiences and environmental exposures aides in providing good, well rounded perspectives for offensesive and defensive security disciplines.

Some of these experiences are:
* Long term exposure to large enterprise networks
* In the trenches experience of multiple security disciplines
* Intrusion Detection - Deployment, management, analysis etc.
* Perimeter Defense
* Forensic Investigation & Discovery
* Industrial Espionage Investigation
* Remote & Internal Penetration Testing
* Vulnerability discovery & Exploit development
* Enterprise System's Administration for Critical Infrastructure
* Topology Review