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Industrial Resilience
Prepare for, withstand and recover from cyber incidents and operational disruption.
- NEXION Cyber Resilience Platform
- Readiness for major incidents
- Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Penetration testing
Energy & Utilities.
OT cyber resilience across power generation, transmission and distribution, and the gas networks that keep the lights on.
- NIS / CAF
- NERC CIP
- IEC 62443
- NIS2
When the grid goes down, everything goes dark.
Energy and utilities are the infrastructure every other sector depends on. A cyber incident in OT does not stay digital, it becomes lost generation, an unstable grid, or interrupted supply.
The estate is vast and long-lived: generation plant, substations, transmission and distribution SCADA, and gas networks, much of it engineered decades before these systems were ever connected.
Connectivity, remote operation and distributed renewable generation have widened the attack surface faster than the controls, and the safety regime around them, have kept pace.
230k+
Ukraine grid, 2015
A coordinated cyberattack switched off substations and cut power to around 230,000 people, the first confirmed grid takedown by cyber means.
6days
Colonial Pipeline, 2021
A ransomware attack shut the largest US fuel pipeline for six days and triggered regional shortages, with OT precautionarily isolated.
4/wk
Nationally significant incidents
Now handled every week by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.
Three capability areas
Our work is organised into three capability areas. Each maps directly onto the energy problems that follow, across generation, transmission and distribution, and gas networks.
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Operational Technology
Secure and modernise control systems and OT environments.
- OT Programme Design & Delivery
- Site Enablement
- OT Security Due Diligence
- Data & AI Governance in OT
- OT Supply-Chain Security & GRC
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Industrial Tech & Innovation
Help operators navigate operational reality and digital innovation.
- Industrial domain advisory
- Agentic BPMN
- AI-ready data architecture
- AI governance
- Data governance
We are vendor-, tool- and standard-agnostic. We map to NIS / CAF, NERC CIP, IEC 62443 and NIS2, without locking you into any one of them.
- NIS / CAF
- NERC CIP
- IEC 62443
- NIS2
Across the energy value chain
Our work maps directly onto the problems energy operators face, across generation, the grid, and gas networks.
01Energy & Utilities
Power generation
Thermal, nuclear, hydro and renewable generation, and the DCS, SCADA and safety systems that run it.
The problem
Generation runs on long-lived control systems, DCS, SCADA, PLCs and safety instrumented systems, that were built for availability and safety, not adversaries. Many plants now reach back to corporate IT and out to OEM remote support, and renewable and distributed assets add large fleets of connected, remotely managed equipment. A cyber incident can force an unplanned trip, threaten the safety case, or take generation offline at the worst possible moment for the system.
- OT Programme Design & Delivery
- Site Enablement
- Readiness for major incidents
- OT Security Due Diligence
- OT Supply-Chain GRC
How we solve it
- Build asset visibility and a defensible network architecture across DCS, SCADA and plant systems, without disrupting generation.
- Separate safety instrumented systems from the wider control network and verify the segregation under a single assurance view.
- Bring OEM and third-party remote access under control, with continuous supply-chain assurance.
- Put incident readiness in place that assumes a trip or service-down scenario, with rehearsed, safe recovery.
- Assure cyber posture at the point of new build and renewable capex, before risk is engineered in.
Generation availability protected, with the safety case preserved as plant becomes more connected.
Controlled, monitored remote access for OEMs and operators.
Faster, rehearsed recovery when an incident forces a trip.
Cyber risk priced into new-build and renewable investment, not discovered after go-live.
02Energy & Utilities
Transmission & distribution
Substations, grid SCADA, protection and control, and the operational networks that balance the system.
The problem
The grid depends on geographically dispersed substations, protection and control, and grid SCADA that must operate in real time to keep the system stable. Digital substations and wide-area connectivity have widened exposure, and the Ukraine attacks proved that manipulating this layer can switch off power directly. The estate is hard to monitor and physically secure, and operators depend on a small number of vendors and integrators.
- OT Programme Design & Delivery
- Penetration testing
- OT Supply-Chain GRC
- Readiness for major incidents
- Continuous resilience monitoring
How we solve it
- Build visibility across substation automation, protection and grid SCADA, and segment it from corporate and supplier networks.
- Harden and monitor remote access to substations and control centres, with authenticated, time-bound maintenance.
- Tier and assure the vendors and integrators the network depends on.
- Put control-centre-down and substation-down readiness in place, with rehearsed recovery that restores stability safely.
- Maintain a live view of OT posture across a dispersed estate, and assure cyber at the point of digital-substation programmes.
Protected grid availability and system stability.
Reduced exposure across a dispersed substation estate.
Leverage over the vendors and integrators that can affect the network.
Demonstrable alignment to NIS / CAF, NERC CIP and IEC 62443.
03Energy & Utilities
Gas networks
Transmission and distribution pipelines, compressor and pressure-reduction stations, and metering.
The problem
Gas networks run on pipeline SCADA, compressor and pressure-reduction stations and metering spread across vast, remote estates, frequently with limited physical security and ageing telemetry. A cyber incident that disrupts pressure control or telemetry is a safety hazard, not just an outage, and the Colonial Pipeline case showed how a business-IT compromise can force precautionary shutdown of the operational side.
- OT Programme Design & Delivery
- Site Enablement
- OT Supply-Chain GRC
- Readiness for major incidents
- OT Security Due Diligence
How we solve it
- Build an integrated view of pipeline SCADA, stations and telemetry, and design segmentation that respects remote-site constraints.
- Harden and monitor remote access; remove ad-hoc remote-desktop and modem pathways at remote sites.
- Map critical functions, pressure and safety control, to the systems and suppliers that support them.
- Rehearse pipeline-down and telemetry-loss scenarios, including how IT and OT are isolated under response.
- Assure cyber at the point of network capex and station upgrades.
Protected supply continuity and pipeline safety.
Controlled, monitored remote access across a dispersed estate.
Faster, rehearsed recovery when an incident hits.
Demonstrable regulatory alignment and a stronger position with regulators and insurers.
What we offer, and where it helps
Every capability maps to a specific energy need across the value chain. Use this as the at-a-glance view of how we can help.
- ALL
- GENERATION
- GRID
- GAS
Industrial Resilience
NEXION Cyber Resilience Platform
- ALL
Continuous OT monitoring and a single view of resilience posture across plants, substations and networks.
Readiness for major incidents
- ALL
Trip, control-centre-down and pipeline-down playbooks, rehearsals and tested recovery.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
- ALL
Alignment to NIS / CAF, NERC CIP, IEC 62443 and NIS2, with board-ready reporting.
Penetration testing
- GRID
OT-safe validation of segmentation across substations and control centres.
Operational Technology
OT Programme Design & Delivery
- GENERATION
- GRID
Multi-site OT security architecture and roadmap, delivered without disrupting supply.
Security Adoption & Site Enablement
- GENERATION
- GAS
On-the-ground rollout and commissioning across plants and stations.
OT Security Due Diligence
- ALL
Cyber assurance at capex, new build, renewables, digital substations and network upgrades.
OT Supply-Chain Security & GRC
- ALL
Risk-tiering and continuous assurance of OEMs, integrators and remote access.
Industrial Tech & Innovation
Industrial domain advisory
- ALL
Safety-cyber convergence and OT strategy from operator-side practitioners.
Agentic BPMN
- ALL
Modelling and automating operational and assurance workflows for consistency and control.
Data & AI Governance in OT
- GRID
Integrity and governance of operational and grid data feeding analytics and AI.
AI governance & Data governance
- ALL
Governing AI that touches operational or safety decisions, on trusted operational data.
We come from the operational floor.
We have run multi-region OT security programmes across energy and other critical infrastructure. That matters here, where advice that ignores live operations and safety cases gets ignored on the ground.
We are vendor-, tool- and standard-agnostic. We map to what you already run and the frameworks you already answer to, and we leave you with capability, not dependency.
Operator-side practitioners
Engineers who have programmed the PLCs, built the panels and recovered the plant across 25+ industrial sites.
Vendor-, tool- and standard-agnostic
We map to what you already run and the frameworks you answer to. We leave you with capability, not dependency.
Board to floor
Evidence the board can act on, delivered inside live operational constraints, not a slide deck.
Talk to a practitioner about energy & utilities OT.
Engineers who have stood in the control room, not a slide deck.