
About Us

How Eastern Bee LLC Got Started
The idea for Eastern Bee LLC began when Karen Thomas, our founder, was in grad school at LSU. There, Karen was torn between volunteering with the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office and her studies in science and technology.
After graduation, she worked as IT project manager for NASA for almost twenty years leading cybersecurity and infrastructure projects.
Her desire to help the community returned and Karen became a volunteer EMT for Fairfax County Virginia riding ambulances at night and on weekends.
After moving to Virginia Beach, Virginia, Karen founded Eastern Bee LLC in 2022.
She’s helping small business like yours become resilient against the ever-evolving, ever-changing risks to your data integrity and tech operations.
What It’s Like To Work With Eastern Bee LLC
Our approach for minimizing risks to your data integrity and tech operations.
Strategize and Plan
We start by taking time to understand your business model, pain points, risk appetite, critical business processes, and high-value assets. Then we’ll create your IT strategic plan, technology roadmap, and initial business continuity and disaster recovery plan.
Transform
We can provide end-to-end project management for technology upgrades and help you develop or update policies and procedures. We’ll also implement ongoing cybersecurity education, awareness, and training for your company at an affordable cost to address the top cause of successful ransomware attacks.
Manage
Going forward, you’ll get monthly monitoring along with a monthly (or more if desired) call to get updates on what’s happening and bounce your thoughts, plans, and ideas off us. You’ll be able to measure our success based on the business risk reduction and ROI you see each quarter.