Critical infrastructure, public works, and essential services
Systems Risk Advisory helps organizations that operate essential services understand risk, improve readiness, and protect cyber, physical, and operational functions. Our strongest focus is water and wastewater, with related support for electric power, local government, public works, and other critical infrastructure organizations.
Critical infrastructure organizations face risk across facilities, control systems, field operations, communications, vendors, staffing, and leadership decisions. A cyber incident can affect physical operations. A physical incident can disrupt cyber or control-system recovery. Emergency plans can fail when they do not match how systems and people actually work.
Systems Risk Advisory helps clients connect these issues into a clear picture of operational risk. We focus on practical improvements that help leaders protect essential services, reduce exposure, prepare staff, and recover safely when conditions change.
The sector pages below help clients find the most relevant starting point. Water and wastewater is the strongest focus, with related support for other infrastructure environments that depend on cyber, physical, OT/ICS, field operations, and emergency response readiness.
Our strongest sector focus is water and wastewater. We support utilities with AWIA Risk and Resilience Assessments, Emergency Response Plan updates, SCADA and OT/ICS security reviews, ransomware readiness, physical security, incident response planning, tabletop exercises, and staff workshops.
Electric power organizations depend on substations, control systems, field sites, communications, vendors, and clear operating decisions. Systems Risk Advisory can support practical cyber-physical risk review, OT/ICS and remote access review, physical security planning, incident response planning, and exercise support.
Cities, counties, and public works departments often operate several essential functions with limited staff and shared dependencies. We help local government leaders assess cyber, physical, OT/ICS, emergency response, communications, and continuity issues across public works environments.
Some organizations do not fit neatly into one sector, but still operate facilities, systems, people, and services that must remain available. Systems Risk Advisory can help these organizations review risk, clarify priorities, update plans, and prepare response teams.
Systems Risk Advisory is especially well suited for utilities that need practical support with AWIA, SCADA and OT security, ransomware readiness, physical security, emergency response planning, and tabletop exercises.
That work draws on critical infrastructure cybersecurity, engineering, emergency planning, physical security, and water-sector experience.
Different sectors have different regulatory, operational, and engineering requirements. Many of the risk questions are still shared across essential services.
Who can connect, how access is approved, how activity is monitored, and what access could affect.
How control systems, telemetry, engineering workstations, field sites, and operational networks are separated, managed, and recovered.
How the organization protects essential services, communicates during disruption, restores systems, and operates with limited visibility.
How gates, doors, treatment areas, substations, field assets, cameras, alarms, and staff procedures support security and response.
How plans assign roles, manage decisions, preserve operations, communicate with stakeholders, and guide recovery.
How leaders understand risk, approve priorities, fund improvements, and guide response under pressure.
Systems Risk Advisory works with the people who have to make risk, readiness, operations, and recovery decisions before and during an incident.
We are a strong fit when the organization needs clear priorities and practical deliverables that can be used by leaders, operators, IT and OT staff, emergency managers, and field personnel.
Sector work often combines assessment, planning, training, exercises, and leadership support. These service pages provide the next level of detail.
Identify critical assets, threats, consequences, dependencies, and practical risk reduction priorities.
Update response plans so roles, communications, continuity, and recovery actions are clear.
Review control-system access, segmentation, remote access, vendor paths, and recovery concerns.
Review exposure, policies, access controls, ransomware readiness, and priority cyber risks.
Evaluate facilities, access control, site procedures, field assets, and cyber-physical dependencies.
Clarify roles, escalation, containment, communications, and recovery steps before an incident.
Test decisions, coordination, communications, and recovery with realistic scenarios.
Train staff, leaders, operators, and response teams on practical readiness topics.
Systems Risk Advisory can help you determine whether to start with an assessment, plan update, OT/ICS review, physical security review, tabletop exercise, or leadership briefing.