About

ClearNet Security is a security services and software development firm offering:

Penetration testing
Vulnerability assessments
Code Auditing
Software development expertise

Since 2004, our team of security engineers, software developers and machine-learning experts has provided clients with vast industry experience and unique perspectives on security concerns facing their organizations.


Expertise for less

We accept direct work and project-based work from partner companies. Our direct à la carte rate is $135 per hour.

ClearNet Security Principals

  • Tate

    Tate Hansen, Owner, Principal

    Tate is ClearNet Security’s PCI DSS engineer.

    Tate has more than 15 years of engineering experience, and has performed well over 100 security assessments.. He has specialized in security, including security product development, security assessments, penetration testing, and building defensively strong systems.

    Prior to founding ClearNet Security, Tate worked as a security engineer on the Intrusion Detection and Vulnerability Assessment product teams at StillSecure, worked at Sun Microsystems where he solved critical networking problems for Sun’s customers, and was a member of Sun’s CCC Security Team.

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  • Cj

    Charles Grimes II, Owner, Principal

    Charles is ClearNet Security's principal technologist. He has more than 12 years of software design and engineering experience, and has patented work in the area of adaptive, distributed data collection.

    Charles has a proven track record of successfully bringing new products and intellectual property to market. His teams have produced new data analysis technologies for:

    Security Information and Event Management
    Log Analysis
    Social Media
    Business Activity Monitoring
    Business Process Monitoring


Our Team of Specialists

ClearNet Security provides an experienced network of security and software specialists.

We frequently pull in specialists to provide specific expertise for the job at hand. Our network includes team leaders of commercial intrusion detection products and commercial vulnerability assessment products. We work with AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning experts and engineers with strong mathematics and cryptography experience. Our software expertise covers Java, .NET, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, C, and C++.