Today Quest Consultants opened a third office in Springfield, Virginia. The new location greatly improves the company's support capability for clients and employees located on the south side of the Washington, DC metro area. With the recent expansion of Ft. Belvoir as part of the base realignment and closure program (a DoD initiative), the Springfield office is ideally located to support a number of clients facing business challenges.

The Boulder office will be opening on Dec 1, 2011. Our new branch office is located in downtown Boulder with views of the Flatirons. With over 3,000 square feet space there will be room for expansion as our Boulder/Denver team grows to support our cybersecurity practice. The addition of the Boulder office will also improve our disaster recovery capabilities and provide a convenient location for coordination with partner firms in the Denver area.

Go west...

We are expanding westward with a new office in Boulder, Colorado. Boulder is an ideal location because of it's great airport access, lower cost of living, terrific technical talent pool, and outstanding access to the Rocky Mountains.

The company's Boulder team will focus on supporting our financial services and legal clients with a combination of cybersecurity and forensic offerings. Additionally, our budding software development team will use the office, leveraging the Boulder culture to help drive innovation and growth. 

Mark's recent Vegas adventure was successful for two reasons. First, the training was excellent. Second, Mark is up almost 300% at the slots. Unfortunately, he only put up $10...

Curt and Jon are off to training this week, braving the wilds of Ottawa to attend the SANS event, http://www.sans.org/ottawa-2011/.

Curt's trying a new SANS class, Advanced Penetration Testing, http://www.sans.org/ottawa-2011/description.php?tid=4817, which looks to be interesting even for an expert tester.

Jon is taking a forensics class, http://www.sans.org/ottawa-2011/description.php?tid=4991, in order to further expand our forensic service offerings, and get a bit of a break from penetration testing training.

Renovations at the Rockville office are now completed and everyone is looking forward to settling into the redesigned space. The conference room now comfortably holds 8-10 people and provides multimedia capability, and the lounge area, complete with darts, Xbox 360 Kinect, and comfortable chairs, is perfect for informal discussions and a beer after hours. Additionally, the secure server room with dedicated power and dual Internet connections provides much needed growth space for the company's technology core.

Thanks to D.R. Hartman Construction for timely and professional services.

Quest Consultants is pleased to announce the recipients of this year's corporate donations:

Quest Consultants' Jason Winder is currently providing technical support in Haiti. Jason's primary focus is determining the current state of a data center in order to plan for upgrades. Providing international technical support is always a challenging task because of language barriers, travel, and cultural differences. Luckily, Jason is fluent in French, which greatly lowers the language barrier, has extensive experience working with different cultures after spending several years in Europe, and is happy to be away from Washington DC for a few days during the oppressively hot summer.

Here are some photos of the area the hotel blocked off because of the snow on the glass roof.

 

 This is a close up of one section of the roof. The light is shining through in the middle.

ShmooCon 2010 is underway and going strong despite the epic snowstorm raging outside. The hotel shutdown portions of the lobby because of fears about a roof collapse, which forces everyone to use the elevators in the central lobby area. Inside the conference is fairly well attended although almost everyone here is staying at the hotel. Locals who normally come for the day seem to be absent.

DC area governments are still predicting another several hours of snow so we could be holed up here for a while longer.