Dr. Timothy Schilbach

Dr. Timothy H. Schilbach has almost 30 years’ experience in the Cyber Warfare and Cyber Security field.  He has advanced degrees from the University of Phoenix where in 2008 he obtained his first Doctorate Degree of Business for Organizational Management. He has obtained his second set of advanced degrees from Johns Hopkins in 2012 in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering.  Dr. Schilbach has graduated Summa Cum Laude. 

Dr. Schilbach is a serial business entrepreneur having owned 4 successful companies since the year 2000. He started a Telecommunications company names Concentric Tech Solutions (CTS) in the year 2000 which specialized in Datacenter colocation, Wireless communications in the Rocky’s and internet access for rural customers.  CTS was sold in 2008 and he started an Information Security Company with a friend named Sarum, LLC. Sarum led the cyber security conversion for the DoD during a major change in paradigm for the Defense Logistics Agency and assisted in standing up the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Sarum went on to also conduct Cyber Security for the US Department of Agriculture out of Colorado. Dr. Schilbach sold his shares in Sarum LLC in 2012 in preparation for his mission at US CYBERCOM.

Dr. Schilbach opened Penacity, LLC after his tenure at US CYBERCOM which specializes in Cyber Security to include conducting Cyber Security Audits for CMMC, FEDRAMP, NIST, ISO, and various privacy frameworks for the defense contract and civilian corporations.  Penacity, LLC specializes in all aspects of Cyber Security and holds contracts with many agencies to include NRC, USDA, SSA, DoED, VA, and NSA. 

Dr. Schilbach is a philanthropist at heart and has made stives to support our educational institutions in instilling good cyber security curriculum to our youth to strengthen our nation. Dr. Schilbach has been a coach for youth in US Cyber Patriot since 2008. Dr. Schilbach regularly speaks at Ft. Meade High School and various community colleges in Anne Arundel, Howard, and Baltimore counties. Dr. Schilbach established a formal relationship with the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) where he meets with the Board of Deans and the Cyber Steering Committee once a quarter since 2017 to help improve cyber curriculum in community college.  Dr. Schilbach works with organizations like MAGIC to give youth an opportunity to plan and implement hackathons thus communicating cyber skills and interest to our youth. 

Service is important to Dr. Schilbach as his goal is to spread awareness on cyber programs, get youth involved in STEM and to strengthen our community again cyber-attacks which plague our news feeds constantly.