The problems we're built to solve.

The Situation

A regional transmission operator is approaching a NERC CIP audit with gaps in their Electronic Security Perimeter (ESP) documentation, access control policies, and patch management processes across multiple substations.

Our Approach

An engagement like this would typically involve embedding a senior compliance engineer and network architect to conduct a full CIP-005 and CIP-007 gap assessment, redesign ESP boundaries, implement jump server architecture for remote access, and build a repeatable patch management workflow aligned to CIP-007-6.

The Situation

A midstream pipeline operator needs to modernize their control system network while maintaining strict separation between their SCADA environment and corporate IT. A legacy flat network architecture creates compliance risk and limits visibility into OT traffic.

Our Approach

This type of engagement involves designing and implementing a Purdue Model-aligned network architecture using next-generation firewalls and a dedicated DMZ for historian and data diode traffic — deploying OT network monitoring without introducing IT protocols into the control plane.

The Situation

A generation company expanding its fleet needs OT-experienced network engineers on-site quickly. The specialized combination of utility operations knowledge and network engineering expertise is rare, and standard recruiting pipelines consistently come up short.

Our Approach

Our global talent network is specifically built for this gap. We screen candidates for hands-on experience with industrial control system networks, NERC CIP environments, and substation LAN design — and can present qualified shortlists in weeks rather than months.

The Situation

A multi-site enterprise needs to migrate workloads to Azure while maintaining consistent security policy enforcement across on-premises and cloud environments. Existing SD-WAN infrastructure is vendor-locked and underperforming.

Our Approach

A hub-and-spoke Azure Virtual WAN architecture with integrated Azure Firewall and BGP route management can replace legacy SD-WAN with a vendor-agnostic solution — unifying security policies across all sites and establishing network performance baselines to validate post-migration traffic patterns.

The Situation

A health system that has grown through acquisition has a fragmented network with inconsistent firewall policies, undocumented VLAN structures, and no centralized visibility into east-west traffic between clinical and administrative segments.

Our Approach

This engagement would begin with a full network security assessment, followed by firewall rule rationalization across vendor platforms and micro-segmentation between clinical, administrative, and medical device VLANs — with a risk-prioritized remediation roadmap delivered to the security team.

The Situation

A municipal electric utility is running end-of-life switching and routing infrastructure across its distribution operations center and field locations. Aging hardware is causing intermittent outages and the lack of redundancy creates single points of failure in the operational network.

Our Approach

A phased infrastructure refresh would begin with a full assessment and technology roadmap, followed by sequenced replacement of core and distribution switching — designed specifically to avoid any impact to SCADA communications during the transition.