Effective ways to protect data from hackers existed, yet breaches kept happening. That nagging gap pushed Félix Negrón to start threatSHIELD Security, now a Tampa, Florida firm that pairs real-time detection tools with testing, consulting and incident response.

About threatSHIELD Security?

threatSHIELD Security, LLC is a managed cybersecurity provider based in Tampa. LinkedIn places it in the 11–50 employee range and its website describes an international firm whose core product scales from small businesses to Fortune 500 environments. The stated mission is to identify, mitigate and remediate cyber risk; the stated vision is to become the world's leading provider.

Who founded it and why?

Félix Negrón, who holds an MSCIS, founded threatSHIELD Security and serves as CEO. His profile on the company site says he came up through IT and the automation industry, becoming a serialization specialist, then spent the last two decades solely in cybersecurity, including large projects alongside the FBI and Homeland Security.

What products and services does it offer?

The catalogue is broad, but one idea runs through it: prevent first, detect second, clean up only when something slips through. threatSHIELD Security sorts its work into consulting, testing, proactive prevention, remediation and compliance, and brands its in-house prevention tools with a lowercase "t." Speed is the selling point; the company says its approach neutralizes hidden threats in under 30 seconds.

t INTELLIGENCE

The flagship is a real-time detection appliance. The company says it sits in line with traffic rather than on a mirror port, so it can block hostile connections instead of merely logging them and that it passes what it learns to a client's existing firewall and antivirus. Its pitch rests on a 12-step approach, no human intervention and false positives below 1 percent, all vendor claims worth probing in a demo. It says setup takes about five minutes without disrupting the network. The target threats are zero-day attacks and ransomware.

t EDR

t EDR is cloud-delivered, with on-premises support. A lightweight agent on every endpoint records events and reports suspicious activity to a central console, where a correlation engine links events from multiple machines into prioritized, organization-wide incidents. Analysts can search for indicators of compromise and MITRE ATT&CK techniques. The company says the tool can roll back malicious changes and clients who want someone else watching the console can upgrade to managed detection and response.

t DNS Firewall and t SIEM

With t DNS Firewall, DNS queries go to a threatSHIELD Security server that vets each request, drops the malicious ones and answers the rest from cache or by fetching the record. Because the control sits at the DNS layer, every device on the network, IoT gear included, gets covered and users who hit a bad domain can be steered to an educational page. Threat data feeds update continuously, so there is little to upgrade.

t SIEM handles the log side. It gathers events from systems, network devices, applications and databases, normalizes them, correlates patterns, applies behavioral analysis, alerts security teams and generates audit reports. Related monitoring offerings include a monitoring solution, a case management platform, t Monitoring and one called PCPAS.

Testing: attack yourself first

Ransomware simulation carries a blunt slogan: "Let us hack you, before you get hacked." The exercise tests whether an attack would succeed on a client's network and hands over evidence for immediate fixes. The manual penetration test has a concrete scope: two hours of reconnaissance, two hours of exploitation per IP address and a detailed report. Network audits, vulnerability assessments and phishing assessments complete the group.

Consulting and compliance

vCISO (virtual chief information security officer) services, risk assessments, a business maturity assessment and general consultation make up the advisory side. A risk assessment inventories assets such as laptops, customer data and intellectual property, then ranks the threats to each. Compliance reporting aims to lift audit work off internal staff and employee training covers password habits and everyday risk.

Remediation

When protection fails, or was never installed, the company steps in with incident response, ransomware remediation, forensics and reverse engineering. Its incident response practice is pitched as a systematic way to help IT teams prepare for outages, breaches and attacks, not only react to them. The site even carries a banner for organizations already breached. Other listed offerings include VPN replacement, zero-trust design, an email phishing service, threat-intelligence feeds and brand monitoring.

How should buyers weigh the company's claims?

Much of threatSHIELD Security's self-description comes in absolutes: a perfect detection record, threats stopped in under 30 seconds, no client breached after deploying t INTELLIGENCE. Those figures come from the company's own materials, and they vary by page; one promises zero false positives, another under 1 percent. Prospective buyers can reasonably ask for proof-of-concept testing, references and independent validation.

threatSHIELD Security sells a layered package: proprietary real-time detection, endpoint and DNS controls, log analysis, hands-on testing, advisory work and incident response. Its in-line approach and its founder's cybersecurity background give it a distinct pitch. Its performance claims remain the company's own.

Félix Negrón | Founder and CEO

“Stay ahead of cybercriminals with advanced visibility and rapid response, ensuring your network remains secure and resilient.”