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Veteran-Owned Security Solutions for a Complex World

From cybersecurity and compliance audits to specialized digital forensics and TSCM, we provide the comprehensive protection your business deserves. At Simplified Security Solutions, our veteran-led team is dedicated to safeguarding your digital and physical interests through expert-driven security solutions.

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About Us


Simplified Security Solutions is a veteran-owned cybersecurity and digital forensic firm specialized in closing the gaps between physical and digital perimeters. While we deliver core protections like disaster recovery and compliance preparation, we excel in high-stakes integrity—performing deep hardware teardowns, identifying unauthorized telemetry, and executing professional TSCM sweeps.

Your Independent Technical Advocate

We don't just manage your security; we verify it and fight for your interests. We act as your trusted, honest representative whenever technical clarity and strict accountability are required, such as:

  • MSP Oversight: Verifying that your Managed Service Provider is delivering the actual architecture and security controls you are paying for.

  • Insurance Investigations: Providing objective, forensic evidence and technical backing following a breach or claim.

  • Audit Defense: Standing beside you during PCI DSS, HIPAA, or NASPO audits to ensure your technical controls withstand rigorous regulatory scrutiny.

Our mission is simple: to provide the uncompromising truth and technical advocacy you need to protect your assets in an increasingly complex threat landscape.

Specialized Security for Manufacturing, Healthcare, & Finance

From NASPO-certified chain of custody to HIPAA-compliant patient data, we harden your specific perimeter against 2026 threats.

PCI-DSS


Physical Layer Validation for payment environments. We audit Point-of-Sale (POS) hardware for skimming and unauthorized telemetry.

HIPAA/HITECH


Secure Evidence Handling for healthcare data. Forensic audits of medical imaging devices and patient-record systems to verify hardware integrity.

NASPO/Supply Chain


Supply Chain Integrity via NASPO standards. Vetting hardware origins to prevent state-sponsored back-doors to protect your digital intellectual property.

Clear answers regarding audit prep, technical retainers, TSCM sweeps, and evidence processing.

20 Years of Protecting the Perimeter—From Physical Tactics to Digital Forensics.

Security isn't just about software updates; it’s about understanding the adversary.


I began my career in the high-stakes world of physical protection and defensive tactics. In those environments, a "blind spot" wasn't a technical glitch—it was a life-safety failure. As the world moved toward a surveillance-driven economy, I realized the greatest threats were no longer just at the front gate; they were hidden inside the motherboards, the firmware, and the "plug-and-play" devices we trust to protect us.


Simplified Security Solutions was born from a need for true hardware integrity. After two decades of identifying obfuscated UART connections, tracing "phone-home" telemetry to foreign servers, and hardening critical infrastructure, I’ve learned that real security requires a forensic mindset.


Today, I help business owners in the manufacturing, legal, medical, and high-security sectors bridge the gap between their physical and digital perimeters.


Whether we are auditing a facility for NASPO-SA, PCI, and HIPAA compliance or performing a TSCM sweep of a boardroom, my mission is simple: Eliminate the blind spots.

Founder of Simplified Security Solutions performing a forensic motherboard audit on a security DVR.

About the Founder | 20-Year Security & Forensic Veteran


Stop the compliance guesswork in one call.

OPERATIONAL PILLARS: THE PHYSICAL LAYER AUDIT

Beyond the firewall lies the hardware, the hardware can leak secrets. That's why we utilize HD micro-forensics and RF-spectrum mapping to neutralize vulnerabilities that traditional software security cannot detect.

Compliance & Audit Readiness

Prepare for PCI DSS 4.0.1, HIPAA, or NASPO certification and gain peace of mind with a forensic-level audit. We go beyond basic administrative paperwork to verify strict logical network segmentation, end-to-end data encryption, 90-day surveillance retention, physical access controls, and immutable storage—ensuring sensitive data environments are mechanically isolated before the auditor arrives.

Advanced Counter-Measures

Protect your high-value trade secrets and executive communications from physical and digital surveillance. We perform forensic-grade (TSCM) sweeps to identify unauthorized RF transmitters, hidden microphones, bugs, and rogue cellular taps. Beyond physical sweeps, we audit your hardware layer to detect covert "phone-home" beacons, and network implants designed to exfiltrate critical data.

Hardware Integrity Validation

Eliminate supply-chain risks before deploying critical infrastructure. We perform component-level hardware teardowns, chip-off inspection, and physical interface hardening—including the neutralization of exposed UART and JTAG headers. By conducting deep firmware analysis and out-of-band telemetry monitoring, we ensure your gateways, PLCs, and security hardware contain no backdoors leaking sensitive data.

No fluff. No generic marketing. Just actionable technical briefings and threat analysis.

FAQs

We provide a mission-critical suite of services centered on compliance audit preparation, infrastructure hardening, and forensic-level technical defense. Our expertise extends from vulnerability assessments, investigations, and firewall/network hardening to specialized perimeter security and surveillance for maximum security. Rather than handing you a passive, confusing checklist, we engineer robust network boundaries and stand alongside your organization to help defend your technical posture during PCI DSS 4.0.1, HIPAA, and NASPO audits. Our specialized capabilities span digital forensics, Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM), vulnerability assessments, zero-trust network hardening, and out-of-band surveillance security to ensure your enterprise remains audit-ready and operationally secure.

You can initiate a request through our Online Consultation Form or via our priority text line. For your protection, please do not include highly sensitive case details in the initial web form; we will provide a secure channel for those specifics during our first follow-up.

Initial inquiries are received via our secure web portal. To ensure total confidentiality and data integrity, we move all sensitive case discussions and forensic data to an end-to-end encrypted platform separate from our standard web hosting.

Our background instills a "Mission-First" philosophy. We bring military-grade precision, extreme attention to detail, and an unwavering ethical standard to every investigation and audit we perform. We don’t just "patch" systems; we secure your entire perimeter from the ground up.

Yes. We specialize in protecting law firm infrastructure while supporting attorneys on technical case matters. For your practice, we enforce strict zero-trust network boundaries, secure attorney-client privileged communications, and audit remote access pathways to meet ethical duty-of-technology requirements.


For active litigation, we act as your technical advocate—taking messy, unstructured digital evidence (raw hard drives, mobile dumps, unorganized messaging logs) and converting it into court-ready, SHA-256 hash-verified evidence dossiers that withstand FRE 901/902 challenges and opposing counsel scrutiny.

Yes. We specialize in securing the physical-to-digital chain of custody for high-security print environments. With deep experience in the ANSI/NASPO-SA standards, we help specialty manufacturers protect their production floor and their data.

Yes. We recognize that a healthcare clinic has different risks than a manufacturing plant. We conduct a Comprehensive Risk Assessment to identify your specific gaps and tailor a solution that ensures both security and business continuity.

A Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) sweep—commonly referred to as a bug sweep—is a specialized, multi-layered forensic inspection of a physical environment to detect, locate, and neutralize covert electronic eavesdropping devices.


Unlike basic radio frequency (RF) detectors, a professional TSCM sweep combines specialized signal analysis hardware with meticulous physical inspection. We analyze the entire electro-magnetic spectrum to identify:


  • RF & Cellular Transmitters: Hidden microphones, cellular bugs, and rogue Wi-Fi/Bluetooth listening devices.
  • Covert Optical & Camera Systems: Pinhole lenses, hidden video recorders, and infrared optical transmitters.
  • Hardwired & Carrier-Current Bugs: Eavesdropping taps spliced directly into power outlets, ethernet cabling, telecommunications infrastructure, or HVAC systems.
  • Dormant & Non-Linear Devices: Inactive or burst-transmitting listening devices using Non-Linear Junction Detection (NLJD) to spot hidden semiconductors, even when powered off.

Modern corporate espionage and unauthorized surveillance rarely rely on complex, high-budget tactics—low-cost, off-the-shelf listening devices and miniature covert cameras can be deployed in minutes by disgruntled employees, competitors, cleaner crews, or malicious contractors.


A TSCM sweep is critical for:


  • Protecting Attorney-Client & Executive Privilege: Ensuring high-stakes legal strategy sessions, board meetings, and M&A negotiations remain completely confidential and protected from technical eavesdropping.
  • Closing the Physical-Cyber Gap: Identifying rogue hardware installed directly onto your network switches, IP phones, or executive desks that bypass digital firewalls to leak audio or data.
  • Pre-Trial & E-Discovery Due Diligence:  Verifying room security and clean physical perimeters before handling highly sensitive witness depositions, proprietary trade secrets, or government-regulated data.
  • Maintaining Regulatory & Fiduciary Duty: Demonstrating proactive due diligence in safeguarding sensitive intellectual property, client disclosures, and executive communications.

Most Private Investigators approach surveillance sweeps with basic, off-the-shelf handheld RF detectors that only scan for active radio frequencies during business hours. That approach leaves massive blind spots.


Our forensic-first methodology differs in three critical ways:


  • Advanced Wireless & Spectrum Expertise: Standard RF detectors miss modern, complex wireless signals. We analyze modern multi-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), cellular telemetry, and out-of-band protocols to identify hidden devices disguised as ordinary network infrastructure.
  • Persistent SDR Spectrum Logging: Modern eavesdropping devices don't transmit constantly—they store encrypted audio locally and use burst-transmissions to exfiltrate data at 3:00 AM. We deploy Software-Defined Radio (SDR) spectrum loggers to monitor RF environments over extended periods to catch intermittent or scheduled transmissions that standard sweeps completely miss.
  • Forensic Chain-of-Custody & Court-Admissible Documentation: If illicit surveillance hardware is discovered, simply ripping it out destroys crucial evidence. As digital forensics specialists, we document, isolate, and preserve physical hardware and signal logs using strict cryptographic chain-of-custody standards—providing court-ready affidavits and forensic evidence packages that stand up in legal proceedings.

Veteran-Owned & Operated

NASPO-SA Framework Ready

HIPAA Data Security Standards

PCI-DSS Compliance Hardening

NIST-Aligned Protocols

Ready to Simplify Your Security?

Don't leave your business's future to chance. Contact us for a free security consultation to identify vulnerabilities and implement tailored protection. Whether you require a compliance audit, digital forensics, or a TSCM sweep, our veteran-led team is ready to deploy.

Service Area

Piedmont Triad, Charlotte & Surrounding Areas

Phone

336security-422shield-0950

infovet@simplifiedsecuritysolutionsguard.net

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