Like a blockbuster action thriller, Bala Cynwyd tech security firm BTB goes undercover against serious threats every day — and exposes hackers, viruses, scammers, thieves, and other criminals in the very act of their wrongdoing.

Whether from inside the company or out — sometimes way out — BTB’s 150-plus clients have a cyber-surveillance team on the lookout for security weaknesses and outright breaches.

“Half the time, the hackers are foreign,” Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Susan Snyder paraphrased Managing Partner Brian Bailey as saying in a recent feature, “and ‘typically, organized crime.’”

The high-profile child pornography case of Villanova associate professor Christopher Haas is a prime example of BTB’s cybersecurity prowess.

“Safeguarding the security of the Villanova community — including protecting the university’s information assets — is an important strategic initiative which we take seriously,” spokesman Jonathan Gust said in the article.

BTB has also “found people hosting their private company businesses out of an employer’s data center, and others pushing off … intellectual property to competitors to try to get a job,” Managing Partner Ron Schlecht Jr. added.

The firm even goes undercover to try to break into clients’ security systems.

“We do bad things to good people so bad people don’t do the bad things to good people,” Schlecht said in the report.

Click here to read more about BTB’s cybersecurity work in the Philadelphia Inquirer.