BlueTeamAssess LLC is the incarnation of Mike Parsons’ passion to help SMBs understand the threats and risks associated with interacting on the Internet. As an IT Professional for over 40 years, Parsons understands the different technologies and how they both enable SMBs as well as provide a set of threats and risks that oftentimes are misunderstood.
The company takes its name from the Blue Team part of the cyber defense strategies. The Blue Team plays the role of the defender and is responsible for ensuring that the organization can withstand the cyber attack mounted by the Red Team. The blue Team is also responsible for detecting attacks from the Red Team. The mission of BlueTeamAssess LLC is to assist organizations to be able to successfully defend against attacks both from external as well as internal threat actors. The vision of BlueTeamAssess LLC is to offer solutions to SMBs that are actionable and yet sensitive to their budget constraints.
Parsons holds the CISSP, PCIP, QIR, IAM, IEM and is HIPAA certified. Additionally, he has been certified to install, configure and manage the products of several manufacturers. He is a 6 year veteran of USMC and resides in eastern North Carolina.
Parsons is the owner and president of BlueTeamAssess LLC and carries the title of Senior Cybersecurity Architect and Mentor. He believes information security has both a tactical and strategic value proposition for any organization and must not be viewed as a discretionary expense. His areas of expertise are in cybersecurity and specializes in vulnerability assessment and management, cyber risk assessment and management, log and event management, firewall management, SIEM management, security awareness training and incident response.
Parsons earned his BA from East Carolina University, his MBA from the University of Maryland and a graduate certificate in Information Security and Privacy from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a Senior member of the ISSA and a Gold member of ISACA.
His achievements include installing the first firewall at Wachovia and serving as the primary security engineer and architect for Wachovia’s first Internet banking and brokerage products. He has spoken before a number of local organizations on the subject of risk and vulnerability management and topics of current concern in information security. He has led many substantive risk assessment efforts and has developed security standards for technical devices and operating environments in major organizations including government, retail and finance.
BlueTeamAssess LLC is a veteran-owned small business chartered in North Carolina and headquartered just outside Swansboro, NC in an area known as Stella, NC.