Kade Barney

Engineering 

Kade Barney is a penetration tester with a passion for all things security. Kade recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity and is very involved in his local security community, participating in clubs, competitions, and conferences. In addition to penetration testing, Kade has a background in incident response and management, providing him with a skill set in both offensive and preventative security tactics. Kade believes that the ability to conduct effective research is necessary to stay relevant in the quickly changing security environment

Lori Crooks

Senior Consultant/PM

Lori’s deep background includes having managing security and assurance assessment teams at growing cyber firm, A-LIGN, including but not limited to PCI, FISMA, FedRAMP, Penetration Tests, HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC1 and SOC2. She also served as a Center of Excellence lead for PCI, FISMA and FedRAMP, as well as conducting quality reviews of HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC1 and SOC2 reports. For a DoD contractor, Lori has:

• Developed the Governance, Risk and Compliance Program based on NIST 800-53 and 800-171

• Written the Information Security Policy, and associated policies/procedures

• Performed DFARS/NIST 800-171 self-assessments on all sites and hubs

• Worked closely with Project Management Office and Infrastructure & Operations Team to gather audit evidence and develop Plan of Action of Milestones (POA&Ms)

• Evaluated all evidence provided to meet the NIST 800-171 controls

• Created the System Security Plan (SSP) Template for NIST 800-171

• Assisted in completing the first SSP for the DoD contractor

• Performed DoD contractor’s first annual risk assessment

Lori has broad and deep knowledge of multiple cyber frameworks and subscribes to the Webcheck Way – meaning helpful customer communication and professionalism in all documentation and consulting.