A Different Approach to Cybersecurity

Take a fundamentally different approach to cybersecurity. Be proactive. Gain a new perspective—an unparalleled awareness of your network activity.

Be Better. Be Different.

Late last year, the leadership team at the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust hosted an event featuring legendary basketball coach and performance consultant Phil Beckner. He shared his insights on helping players reach elite levels of performance—not just becoming good but achieving the very pinnacle of the sport. His impressive track record proves that his approach works.

Phil shared powerful stories and principles that resonate deeply with me. One of his key takeaways: Be Better. Be Different. He explained that possessing either trait gives you an advantage, but having both can make you elite. This truth extends beyond sports—it applies to business as well.

At PacketWatch, we strive to be elite in our field—not just a better cybersecurity firm, but one of the very best. To achieve those results, we embrace both principles.

Be Different

PacketWatch takes a fundamentally different approach to cybersecurity. The industry norm is reactive—organizations invest in expensive tools that alert after detecting threats and then respond. But by the time they act, the damage is already done. It’s like trying to prevent a car accident by detecting a collision—it’s too late.

Just consider the industry results. Global spending on information security reached approximately $184 billion in 2024, while cybercrime costs are projected to soar beyond $10.5 trillion annually in 2025—up from just $3 trillion in 2015. The reactive approach continues to cost more while losses accelerate. Clearly, it isn’t working, yet the majority of organizations still follow the same failing strategy.

Instead, PacketWatch pursues a proactive cybersecurity model, combining superior visibility with experienced practitioners who hunt threats before they can escalate—before an alert is ever triggered.

Our network-focused perspective adds unparalleled awareness. If something infiltrates your system, it traveled through the network to get there—yet most security approaches overlook this fact. Even in the cloud, threats still move over networks. Adding that vantage point enables the shift to proactive threat hunting. PacketWatch was designed by threat hunters for threat hunting. Designed to see things other tools simply can’t.

Be Better

PacketWatch focuses on identifying and eliminating vulnerabilities, failed controls, misconfigurations, and other attack vectors before threat actors can exploit them. We help clients continuously improve their security posture. Our team members are passionate about cybersecurity and their clients —often knowing more about a client’s network than the client themselves.

Since our team actively battles real-world incursions daily, they stay ahead on the latest tactics, techniques, and procedures used by cybercriminals. This isn’t just about running IOCs against your SIEM—it’s hands-on packet-level hunting.

We don’t just monitor your network; we safeguard it—hunting across multiple organizations and leveraging collective intelligence to bring better results. Our technology even allows us to hunt retrospectively, providing deep historical visibility.

When we spot a threat, we respond immediately. Every team member is trained as a responder, ready to contain and eliminate threats before they cause harm.

We also clean up the messes left by others. Our incident response (IR) team resolves breaches faster than competitors. PacketWatch IR clients don’t suffer reinfections—while many competitors’ clients do.

Effective Results

Since our founding in 2018, our track record speaks for itself. PacketWatch clients enjoy stronger security:

• No ransomware
• No big data breaches 

That means they can focus on growing their business without fear. Phil Beckner’s philosophy is proven—his clients are among the elite players of this era. By adopting the same mindset, PacketWatch is becoming an elite cybersecurity firm.

“Proactive is different. Experienced, passionate people are better.”

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Contact Us today to discover how we can bring amazing results to your organization.

Chuck Matthews is the CEO of PacketWatch, a cybersecurity firm specializing in Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Incident Response, leveraging their proprietary network monitoring platform. With over 35 years of executive experience, Matthews excels in aligning technology with strategic business goals and is a recognized leader in cybersecurity. Chuck has contributed to numerous publications and media outlets, focusing on topics like cybersecurity legislation and best practices.