Solutions
Critical Infrastructure
Integration and resilience for environments where interruption has consequences beyond the operator.
Audience overview
The environment.
Infrastructure environments carry a combination of constraints rarely found together: long-lived physical systems, operational technology that cannot be freely patched, regulatory obligation, distributed sites, and a service that cannot simply stop.
Protocol approaches these environments through integration and resilience — connecting physical security, digital security, monitoring, and operational response without introducing risk to the operation itself.
A collection of purchases fails at the joints, silently, and is discovered by an event.
Typical challenges
What usually needs solving.
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Operational technology and information technology are secured on different assumptions.
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Physical sites are distributed, remote, and unevenly monitored.
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System lifecycles are measured in decades.
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Contractor and vendor access is extensive.
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Response requires coordination across operators, agencies, and providers.
The Protocol approach
How a program is built.
The four stages are the same for every audience. What changes is the environment being assessed and the architecture that follows from it.
- Assess
- Review physical, digital, and operational exposure across sites and systems, with explicit attention to operational constraint.
- Design
- Architect security and monitoring that respects the operational environment rather than fighting it.
- Integrate
- Coordinate systems, contractors, and operational teams onto shared standards and escalation.
- Manage
- Support continued monitoring, review, and resilience planning.
The environment
Protocol begins with a written description of what is being protected — the properties, entities, people, and systems in scope — because an architecture designed against an assumption protects an assumption.
Relevant capabilities
The work involved.
Relevant products
The systems being built for it.
Each product below is in development. None is available to purchase today.
Protocol works with critical infrastructure as the coordinating party, not as one more vendor.
Example engagement models
How the work is scoped.
Engagements are named and scoped rather than priced. Pricing follows a conversation about the environment, not a page.
Site Security Assessment
Structured review of physical and digital exposure across one or more operational sites.
Integration Program
Design and coordination of security, monitoring, and operational system integration.
Resilience Planning
Continuity, response, and recovery planning across physical and digital disruption.
Illustrative scenarios
Shapes the work takes.
The following are constructed illustrations of common situations. They are not client engagements, and no client is described anywhere on this site.
Illustrative scenario.
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Distributed remote sites
Unstaffed sites across a wide geography rely on inconsistent monitoring and long response times. The work establishes a baseline posture per site type and a monitoring and escalation architecture appropriate to each.
Illustrative scenario.
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Contractor access across an operation
Hundreds of contractors hold physical and system access with no consolidated register. The work rebuilds the register, ties access to engagement, and establishes revocation.
Related intelligence
Related analysis.
Start with the environment.
Speak with Protocol about a critical infrastructure requirement, an assessment, or a program that has grown past the arrangements holding it together.