Our years of commercial and government experience provide a deep understanding of enterprise security, enabling us to “hit the ground running” when helping our customers secure their enterprises. Inceptus is comprised of leading practitioners, analysts and experts from 15+ Fortune 500 companies as well as former officers with experience at numerous government agencies; including: NSA, USCYBERCOM, DIA, DOJ/FBI, US Navy, EPA, OPM, GSA, DISA, and the US Capitol Police.

Intelligence Driven, Next-Gen Security Operations Center (SOC)

• Disparate Security Operations Centers (SOC): Main SOC, located in Cape Coral, FL. is manned 24/7/365 but our analysts can connect to the Inceptus Ecosystem from anywhere via our vSOC architecture.
• Threat visibility: We go anywhere. We adapt and extend into any cloud, software as a service or on-premise environment.
• Active defense strategy: We bring the latest technologies to bear and use numerous threat intelligence feeds to make decisions
• Hunting and response: We utilize SOAR to offload low level security incidents allowing our Analysts to plan, practice, and hunt for advanced and unknown threats.
• New/unknown attacks: We go beyond logs and rules to find emerging threats.
• Cyber Security Team: Extend your SecOps capabilities and human expertise with our highly skilled analysts.

Leadership Team

John Schlager is a result’s driven visionary that harbors a passion to innovate, create and build innovative business risk and cybersecurity solutions. He brings deep industry expertise and years of digital combat experience to provide businesses with cost effective solutions to secure their data from even the most determined adversaries. Having almost thirty years of experience in the design, implementation, operations, and management of large-scale enterprises he has designed and deployed security programs to meet the most stringent requirements. He has worked with some of the most at-risk organizations in the public and private sectors including the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, civilian agencies of the federal government, Law Enforcement and Fortune 100 companies by developing robust security programs and by providing world class security intrusion analysis, forensic, and remediation services to better detect, deter, defend, and respond to any threat that an organization will face.

Mr. Schlager is the CEO & Co-Founder of Inceptus, trusted advisors providing military grade cyber defenses and high-end consulting services that focus on helping organizations deal with the increasing risk and impact of cyber-attacks. Combining best of breed technologies, advanced data analytics, exclusive threat intelligence and elite analysts with years of digital combat experience Inceptus builds ultimate cyber resilience that aligns with an organizations business strategy. He was the Co-Founder & Chief Cyber Strategist for Skout Secure Intelligence (now Barracuda MSP). Skout is a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) and Consulting Company offering cyber services to clients across numerous verticals including Critical Infrastructure, Financial Services, Information Technology, Healthcare and Retail.

He was responsible for development and operations of the Secure Intelligence Center (SIC), the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), Skout Labs as well as for the overall selection, design & operations of all services offered by Skout. He was the Chief Information Security Officer of the United States Capitol Police responsible for the overall design and deployment of enterprise cybersecurity program, including its associated technologies and policies. He was an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton where he investigated malicious activities and designed and developed operational security strategies for the assessment, detection, remediation, and continuous monitoring of large-scale enterprises. He developed strategies for the clandestine detection, containment, eradication and continued monitoring of Foreign Nation States and the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT).

Mr. Schlager was an Information Security Officer for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where he was responsible for the cybersecurity program and posture of the office of criminal enforcement, forensics, and training (OCEFT) and the Criminal Investigation Division (CID Mr. Schlager graduated with a Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, majoring in Cybersecurity with a minor in Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland University College. He is an active member in numerous honor and leadership societies including the National Society of Leadership and Success – Sigma Alpha Pi, the National Honor Society for the Computing, and Information Disciplines – Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Throughout John’s career he has also held many IT Certifications including the Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Cisco Certified Networking Professional (CCNP), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Cisco Certified Design Associate Checkpoint Certified Security Expert (CCSE), Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) and the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).