Cybersecurity Practice
Security before it was called cybersecurity
20 years securing IT and OT for heavy-asset enterprises
Identity, SSO, and access governance since before they were the perimeter
Senior US-based practitioners on every engagement
What we do
Two capability areas where we focus our expertise to deliver distinctive results in regulated industrial environments.
Where we are deep
Cybersecurity for Utilities
Electric, gas, and water utilities operating IT and OT environments under regulatory scrutiny NERC CIP, state public utility commission requirements, and increasingly board-level cybersecurity expectations. Two decades of experience at the corporate-to-substation boundary, including identity, access, and operational security for distributed grid environments.
Cybersecurity for Oil & Gas
Upstream, midstream, and downstream operators with global IT estates and OT environments spanning refineries, pipelines, terminals, and offshore assets. Identity governance for complex contractor populations, IT/OT segmentation, and the operational realities of securing infrastructure where availability and safety are equal priorities to confidentiality.
How we think about cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is the most talked about category in enterprise IT consulting space. Almost everybody offers it. Our worldview, formed over 20 years of doing this work, comes down to four ideas and how we apply them in practice.
01
Identity is the perimeter
It has been for years, even when the industry was still talking about firewalls. We have been doing identity work IDM, SSO, governance long enough to know that an organization with weak identity hygiene cannot be secured by any other layer. We start there.
02
Identity is the perimeter
It has been for years, even when the industry was still talking about firewalls. We have been doing identity work IDM, SSO, governance long enough to know that an organization with weak identity hygiene cannot be secured by any other layer. We start there.
03
Tools are not strategy
Most enterprise security stacks have more tools than the team can operate or use. We help clients use what they already have well, before recommending anything new. Vendor neutrality is structural, not aspirational, we are not resellers; we are vendor neutral.
04
Security is operational
A control framework on a slide is not security. Security is what the team does on Tuesday morning. Our work is judged by whether things run more securely after we leave not by the elegance of the deliverable.
Why CIOs and CISOs choose us
01 — Differentiator
Senior practitioners on every engagement
The architect in your weekly meeting is the architect doing the work. No bait-and-switch from senior pitch teams to junior delivery teams. Our cybersecurity leads have been doing this work for 20 years through every renaming the field has gone through.
02 — Differentiator
Specialty depth at the IT/OT intersection
Most cybersecurity firms can tell you about corporate networks. Some can tell you about cloud. Far fewer have operated inside the IT and OT environments of heavy-asset enterprises. We have, for two decades and the difference shows in how we scope, in delivery, and in the conversations clients can have with our team.
03 — Differentiator
Honest scope, vendor neutral
We are not selling licenses, MSSP retainers, or generic cybersecurity templates. We are selling judgment, identity and access depth, IT/OT specialty, and senior delivery for the parts of an enterprise security program where those qualities decide whether the work succeeds.
Talk to us about your cybersecurity program
Whether you’re scoping an IT/OT security initiative, modernizing identity and access, evaluating where your existing program is exposed, or need senior practitioners on an in-flight engagement we would love to have a conversation.
