Sectors

Critical infrastructure is not one sector. Neither is our experience.

We secure the energy, government, transportation, water, and manufacturing systems everyday life depends on.

CI-Discern is a management consultancy focused on critical infrastructure, with a heritage in cybersecurity. Every sector shares the same problem: operational systems built for reliability, connected to networks built for convenience, and depended on by people who cannot wait for recovery. Our leadership has run security programs inside energy, federal, and defense environments.

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Energy

Keep energy flowing when everything depends on it.

Security for generation, transmission, distribution, and fuel operations.

Electricity and fuel are the dependencies beneath every other critical service. Utilities and fuel operators carry decades-old control assets, growing third-party connections, and public and regulatory expectations that outages will not happen. We bring leadership that has secured transmission operations across the western United States.

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Government

Protect the missions the nation cannot afford to lose.

Advisory for federal agencies, defense organizations, and their suppliers.

Agencies face mandated modernization, constrained budgets, and legacy estates supporting critical national assets. Defense supply chains carry contractor compliance obligations. Our leadership includes a former DOE CISO, a former federal power administration CISO and acting CIO, and former U.S. Cyber Command operations leadership, and brings that experience to help you deliver zero trust and modernization mandates, meet FISMA and CMMC obligations, and keep mission-critical systems running.

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Transportation

Secure the systems that move people and goods.

Cybersecurity and resilience for ports, maritime operators, and transportation systems.

Ports, vessels, rail, and transit now rely on connected navigation, signaling, cargo, and access control systems, and isolated or fragmented systems are no longer effective defenses. Cybersecurity must be treated like safety: owned, practiced, and sustained. We help you meet U.S. Coast Guard, Maritime Transportation Security Act, and TSA cybersecurity requirements, integrate cyber into your security plans and command authority, and prepare crews and operators to act decisively and recover quickly.

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Water and Wastewater

Security sized for the utilities communities depend on.

Practical protection for treatment, distribution, and collection systems.

Water and wastewater systems carry direct public health consequences and often operate with small teams and limited security budgets. Many run flat networks and internet-reachable remote access to treatment controls. We deliver right-sized programs that improve protection without disrupting operations.

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Critical Manufacturing

Keep the line running and the plant floor secure.

Operational security and resilience for industrial and defense manufacturers.

Production downtime converts directly to lost revenue, missed deliveries, and contract penalties. Plant floors now connect machines, controllers, and vendors to networks built for convenience, not control. We help manufacturers protect operational technology, segment what matters most, and recover quickly when something goes wrong, with compliance, including CMMC for defense suppliers, as a byproduct of a well-run program.

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