Submarine Weapons Discipline
Practical facility walkthroughs and external network scans for Pacific Northwest businesses. We find the visible exposure points in your physical locks, entry gates, and external digital systems.
Most security failures start with simple oversights: a gate that can be bypassed, a Wifi network leaking into the parking lot, or an unpatched external port. We inspect both sides.
Physical walkthroughs of your facility doors, gates, lock cylinders, and credential readers. We identify common mechanical bypasses, weak key control policies, and camera blind spots.
Passive and active scanning of your public IP addresses, DNS records, and email servers. We check for configuration leaks, open administrative ports, and public facing vulnerabilities.
Local signal testing to check if your internal office networks leak into parking areas or adjoining properties, allowing unauthorized connection attempts from outside the building.
A plain English summary of findings with photographs, severity ratings, and practical steps to secure the perimeter without purchasing expensive new platforms.
We make site checks simple. No long onboarding or heavy documentation cycles.
You tell us the physical site details and public IP addresses. We establish parameters and schedules to prevent disruption to your daily operations.
We conduct the physical site check (access points, lock controls, signal reach) and scan the external digital perimeter. Everything is documented with clear evidence.
We deliver a clean report detailing precisely where access is weak, what public ports are exposed, and how to fix them. No fluff or marketing terminology.
I started my career in the weapons department of U.S. Navy Trident submarines. Serving on the Lafayette class USS Casimir Pulaski (SSBN 633) and the USS Ohio (SSBN 726), I helped maintain Trident C-4 strategic missiles and weapons systems. Submarines require absolute operational discipline. If a physical hatch fails or a command circuit misbehaves, the consequences are immediate.
For the past 20 years, I have worked in enterprise IT infrastructure throughout the Seattle area. Today, I also work in high assurance environments under formal scrutiny. I have seen how companies spend hundreds of thousands on software policies while leaving their server room keys in a desk drawer, or letting office Wifi signals leak into the street.
NW Check provides practical, local site verification. We check the gates, the entry locks, the network leakage, and the public ports. We verify that what you put on paper matches the physical and digital reality of your perimeter.
NW Check brings practical, hands on security review experience to local site inspections. We don't guess at how an intruder or scanner finds entry points; we look at your site through the eyes of an experienced systems auditor.
Since 2022, I have worked in high assurance environments with deep practical experience in formal verification and evidence quality. I am not a fan of paper certifications; true qualification is earned through hands on practice. Real security is an operational discipline, not a paper chase.
HOA document review is one of the most skipped steps in Pacific Northwest property transactions. Washington state requires sellers to provide a seller disclosure statement, but HOA resale certificates and the complete governing documents. CC&Rs, bylaws, rules and regulations, budget, reserve study, and meeting minutes from the past two years, are a separate package that buyers frequently don't read before closing. The governing documents tell you what you can and cannot do with your property. The budget and reserve study tell you whether the HOA has enough money to maintain shared infrastructure without a special assessment. The meeting minutes tell you what problems the board already knows about but hasn't told you directly.
Common issues found in HOA document review include underfunded reserves (anything below 70% funded is a yellow flag; below 50% is a red one), pending litigation between the HOA and a contractor or individual owner, deferred maintenance on shared roofing or siding that hasn't been budgeted, and rules that conflict with the buyer's intended use, short term rental restrictions, vehicle storage limitations, or fence height requirements that affect a property's practical utility. Finding these issues during due diligence is normal and manageable. Finding them after closing is expensive and limiting.
Title searches in the Pacific Northwest frequently surface specific encumbrances that matter for property use: easements for utility access across the property, CCRs (Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions) that run with the land from decades old plat recordings, and environmental assessment notes for properties near creeks, wetland buffers, or stormwater management areas. King, Snohomish, and Pierce Counties all have active critical areas ordinances that restrict development within specified setbacks of regulated areas. A property with a small creek running behind it may have a 200-foot riparian buffer that removes a significant portion of the usable lot. NW Check's document verification process surfaces these encumbrances before they become surprises post closing.
Physical security in the Pacific Northwest has regional characteristics that generic security checklists miss. The climate creates specific vulnerabilities: prolonged moisture exposure degrades electronic access control components faster than in drier climates, wood framed construction is more susceptible to forced entry at door frames than steel framed commercial buildings, and the nine months of overcast weather reduce natural light surveillance in ways that shorter days regions account for in camera placement. A security assessment that ignores these conditions will miss gaps that a locally experienced reviewer identifies immediately.
Seattle area commercial properties frequently have legacy access control systems installed during the 1990s and 2000s construction boom that have never been updated. Magnetic stripe key cards, standard in commercial buildings before the shift to RFID, can be duplicated with a $30 device purchased online. Wiegand protocol RFID readers, still common in older King County buildings, transmit credentials in cleartext over the wire between the reader and the controller, making them vulnerable to credential interception with basic tools. Identifying which access control technology is in place and whether it matches current minimum security standards is a core component of NW Check's physical audit.
External network exposure in the Pacific Northwest business environment reflects the region's concentration of technology companies: many small and medium businesses in the greater Seattle area have implemented cloud infrastructure, remote work VPN solutions, or customer facing web applications faster than their security controls have kept up. Open RDP ports, unprotected administrative interfaces, and SSL certificates on expired configurations are among the most common findings in NW Check's external perimeter scans. These are not sophisticated vulnerabilities, they're configuration gaps that automated scanning tools find in seconds, which means attacker tooling finds them in seconds too.
The Pacific Northwest's emergency response culture also creates a specific property security consideration: power outages from windstorms and ice events are common enough that electronic access control systems need to be evaluated for fail safe versus fail secure behavior. A fail safe electronic lock releases the door when power is lost, correct for fire egress, wrong for a server room. A fail secure lock keeps the door locked without power, correct for high security areas, wrong for a single exit space. NW Check reviews power dependency and failover behavior across your access control system, not just the normal operating state.
Tell us about your PNW facility or digital perimeter. Let's schedule a practical, no fluff audit.