Company
About TIERS Group
A multidisciplinary technical services company built for disciplined work, direct communication, and useful outcomes.
Senior technical judgment without unnecessary layers.
TIERS Group is a Virginia-based professional services company spanning digital forensics, eDiscovery, cyber defense, technical systems, digital systems, and technical exploitation. Engagements are organized around the expertise the work requires, with direct access to senior technical judgment and accountable delivery.
Company capability
TIERS Group is built to bring experienced practitioners and specialists together around the client’s actual question. The operating model emphasizes clear ownership, direct communication, disciplined methods, and useful outcomes across every division. Experience and qualifications form the foundation for broader company capabilities.
Experience-led approach
TIERS Group is experience-led, drawing on digital forensics and technical exploitation work across federal, military, intelligence, scientific, and public-sector environments. This background informs a practical approach to difficult evidence, operational constraints, quality, training, and communication with non-technical decision-makers.
Experience foundation
Professional experience associated with TIERS Group includes work connected to the Defense Intelligence Agency, United States Marine Corps, United States Navy, NASA, and the U.S. Department of Education. These references describe experience environments; they do not imply endorsement, current contracts, or authorization to speak for any agency or organization.
How we intend to operate
- Mission before hierarchy. The best-informed person contributes directly, regardless of title.
- Truth before certainty. Findings distinguish facts, interpretation, assumptions, and limitations.
- Scope before tools. Technical work begins with the question and authority, not a favorite product.
- Quality before volume. We would rather deliver a smaller, defensible answer than an impressive but unfocused data dump.
- Discretion by default. Sensitive matter information is shared only as needed and through appropriate channels.
- Continuous professionalization. Training, validation, peer learning, and documented improvement are part of the operating model.
What TIERS means
Technical Intelligence. Exploitation. Research. Solutions.
TIERS stands for Technical Intelligence, Exploitation, Research, and Solutions. The name describes the operating disciplines we bring together rather than a single tool, platform, or market.
Technical Intelligence
Turn complex technical data, systems, artifacts, and operational context into information that counsel, clients, and mission leaders can understand and use.
Exploitation
Lawfully and defensibly extract, examine, correlate, and operationalize information from devices, media, systems, and data within documented authority and scope.
Research
Develop, test, validate, and improve methods, workflows, training, and technical approaches for difficult or emerging problems.
Solutions
Deliver practical outputs: clear findings, review-ready data, repeatable workflows, complete training programs, and mission-focused technical support.
Operating values
What clients should expect.
Direct access
Senior practitioners remain involved in scope, methodology, high-impact findings, and communication.
Measured claims
Capabilities, qualifications, relationships, and findings are represented accurately and with appropriate limits.
Useful outputs
Reports and data packages are designed for the next decision, review process, or mission step.
Experience foundation
Senior experience behind every engagement.
TIERS Group is experience-led, drawing on more than 25 years across military, technical, and intelligence operations, including 20+ years dedicated to digital forensics and forensic laboratory operations.
That experience includes full-cycle forensic examinations, evidence preservation and analysis, forensic lab management, multidisciplinary team leadership, worldwide technical exploitation support, training program development, and executive-level reporting for complex matters.
Professional experience spans
- Defense Intelligence Agency / National Media Exploitation Center
- U.S. Navy
- NASA
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Marine Corps
Selected forensic credentials and advanced training
- FLETC Seized Computer Evidence Recovery Specialist
- Cellebrite Certified Mobile Examiner
- Cellebrite Certified Recovery Specialist
- Cellebrite Certified Operator
- Cellebrite Certified Physical Analyst
- Advanced Smartphone Analysis
- Chip-Off Forensics & In-System Programming
- TeelTech Advanced BGA Chip-Off
- CompTIA A+ / Network+ / Security+
- SANS FOR500 / FOR508 / FOR572 / FOR585 / SEC504 training
These qualifications and career training inform TIERS Group’s experience base; each engagement is scoped and staffed according to the matter, authority, and technical requirements. Agency and vendor names identify prior experience or training only and do not imply endorsement.