Born Chicago 2008 · Reborn Indianapolis 2025
The cybersecurity company that started as the world's first esports house.
Founded by Joe "Mr. P" Pennacchio in a Chicago suburb. Trained the world's best Halo pros and teams. Tyler "Ninja" Blevins lived in our house — the same lab we work in today. We hacked together a T1 line and defended our live streams from hackers before cybersecurity was a buzzword. That's where TLN comes from.
What we do
Cybersecurity
Pen testing, network audits, red team. We were doing this in 2010 to keep hackers from DDoSing our Halo streams. Now we do it for the world.
See Cybersecurity →esports Cybersecurity
Anti-cheat audits, tournament network defense, streamer account security. The only pen-test firm born inside a competitive esports house.
esports Vertical →AI Software Development
AI-native software builds, custom automations, agentic systems — every deliverable signed with a cryptographic audit trail.
AI Development →We didn't pivot to cybersecurity. We started there in 2010.
Streaming live Halo matches to the world from a residential gamer house meant constant DDoS attacks, attempted server reboots, and account-hijack attempts on our pro players. Rick & Arek hacked together a T1 line and built defenses by hand. That instinct for protecting infrastructure became TLN's second life.
Visit the original 2008–2012 site (museum) ↗Education + Apprenticeships
Workforce-ready apprentices through Hope Training Academy.
TLN partners with Hope Training Academy — a registered apprenticeship sponsor — to build the next generation of cybersecurity, coding, and AI talent. Hire an apprentice through HTA, mentor them on a real TLN engagement, and supply your team with talent that already knows how we work.
Every deliverable signed with a cryptographic audit chain.
Your compliance team can verify exactly which engineer touched what hardware at what second. Industry-first transparency — built on our own AI-augmented compute fabric.