Operational Systems Built for How Regulated Utilities Run
Field operations, asset management, and compliance workflows designed around your actual operating environment, with NERC CIP requirements built into the architecture from day one.
What We See
Your Operations Are Being Run on Tools That Weren't Designed for Each Other
Utilities manage operational complexity across OT and IT environments using tools built for one side or the other, not both. The gaps between them are where compliance findings, operational risk, and manual workarounds accumulate.
Field Operations and Your SCADA Live in Separate Worlds
Your field crews, dispatch, and work order management run on tools that don't know what your SCADA knows. The connection between them is a spreadsheet or a phone call, and it's been that way long enough that nobody questions it anymore.
Compliance Documentation That's Always Behind Operations
Your CIP records don't reflect what is deployed because keeping them updated competes with keeping the lights on. The gap between your documentation and your actual environment isn't a theoretical compliance risk. It's an open finding waiting to be written up.
OT and IT Managed as Parallel Organizations
The tools running your operational technology and the tools running your business have never been designed to work together. Convergence happens in practice long before it happens in documentation, and the gap between them is where your regulatory exposure lives.
Our Approach
Built Around Your Operating Environment, Not a Compliance Template
We start by understanding how your OT and IT environments work together, then design systems that fit that reality. Compliance requirements get built in from the start, not retrofitted after.
Phase 1
Assess
We document how your OT and IT environments connect, where your compliance gaps are, and the operational constraints that govern what can change and when. The output is a system design roadmap with NERC CIP standard references for each requirement.
Typical timeline: 4 to 6 weeks for utilities. The deliverable maps directly to CIP standard requirements.
Phase 2
Build
Changes are sequenced to address the highest-risk findings first without disrupting grid operations or creating new gaps. Access controls, audit logging, and change management processes are implemented at the architecture level.
Every change includes pre/post documentation suitable for submission to your Regional Entity.
Phase 3
Manage
We maintain the systems and compliance documentation we implement. When NERC issues new standards or your audit cycle requires updated evidence, we provide it. You retain a named point of contact with defined response times.
Ongoing compliance documentation support built into the managed service, not billed separately.
Compliance Fluency
We Know NERC CIP at the Implementation Level
Utility compliance goes beyond passing audits. The goal is building systems that produce the evidence required by CIP standards without a manual effort to reconstruct it before each review.
- NERC CIP-002 through CIP-014 Full CIP standard set addressed in system design, from asset identification through physical security and incident response.
- Electronic Security Perimeters (CIP-005) Network segmentation, access control, and monitoring capabilities implemented to meet ESP requirements without disrupting operational communications.
- System Security Management (CIP-007) Patch management, port/service controls, security event monitoring, and malicious code prevention addressed at the system architecture level.
- NIST SP 800-82 Industrial control system security guidance applied to OT/IT convergence architecture and network segmentation decisions.
- Audit Evidence Management Evidence packages organized by CIP standard and requirement, maintained in a format your compliance team can submit directly to your Regional Entity.
- Incident Response (CIP-008) Incident response plan documentation, testing records, and reporting procedures maintained to meet CIP-008 requirements and support post-incident review.
Start With a Conversation About Your Operating Environment
Every engagement starts with an assessment of how your operations run, not a compliance checklist. We map your OT and IT environment, identify where the gaps are, and design systems that close them.