Executive cyber risk · AI governance · Critical infrastructure readiness
Direnzic helps critical-infrastructure leaders turn cyber, AI and OT risk into clear ownership, closed readiness gaps and defensible decisions before an incident, regulator or boardroom question exposes what was missed.
Water & wastewater leaders Explore WaterReady™Flagship program · Water + wastewater utilities
Most utilities already know they have cyber and operational gaps. The hard part is what happens next.
WaterReady provides the governance layer across your IT, OT and SCADA teams, engineers, vendors and assessors, moving validated findings through to a decision, an owner, remediation and proof that it worked.
The WaterReady governance path
If something goes wrong, can we keep making water?
What we help leaders answer
Every Direnzic program, from WaterReady™ to enterprise AI governance, is built around one or more of these questions. The service names may change. The executive outcomes do not.
Are we actually prepared for the risk we think we are prepared for?
We assess more than technology. We determine whether required plans, controls and operating practices exist, remain current and could actually perform under pressure.
Who owns the risk, what decisions must be made, and can leadership prove they were managed responsibly?
Decision rights, ownership, policy and evidence structures that hold up when a regulator, insurer, board or attorney asks why leadership made the decisions it made.
Can essential operations continue when technology fails, is compromised or becomes unavailable?
We test crisis leadership, manual operating capability, escalation paths and continuity plans against the scenarios the organization is actually likely to face.
Can leadership understand the risk well enough to make and defend the right decision?
Direnzic operates between technical reality, operational consequence and executive responsibility, translating cyber, AI and OT issues into decisions leaders can understand, own and defend.
Where Direnzic fits
Technical teams find problems.Operators live with them.Executives answer for them.
Direnzic works across those three realities so findings become decisions, decisions have accountable owners, and leadership has evidence of what was done and why.
Direnzic connects all three
Beyond WaterReady™
Direnzic applies the same readiness, governance, resilience and executive clarity model across municipal government, transportation, utilities and organizations adopting AI faster than governance can keep pace.
Start where the need is greatest: diagnose the condition, establish governance, add executive leadership or rehearse the response.
An executive governance diagnostic, not a technical scan. ACRA assesses whether cyber and AI risk are being governed with clear ownership, operating evidence and decisions leadership can defend. Start with the free ACRA Executive Snapshot.
Take the Executive Snapshot →Where ACRA™ identifies the governance gaps, ARG + CR puts the operating structure in place to manage and close them. Ongoing oversight for AI governance, policy, board reporting, incident readiness, vendor and model risk, and executive evidence.
Explore AI Governance →Executive security leadership positioned between the board, CEO, technology teams, vendors, compliance obligations and business operations. Available as Fractional CISO, Cyber Readiness Lead or AI Governance Executive Advisor.
Explore Executive Advisory →Executive tabletop exercises built around the decisions leadership must make under pressure, from ransomware and critical-system outages to third-party failure, public communications, regulatory escalation and recovery priorities.
Rehearse the Decisions →Why Direnzic
Direnzic began in digital forensics in 2008 and expanded through cybersecurity, penetration testing, program management and critical-infrastructure delivery. That experience allows us to work across technical teams, operational environments and executive leadership without losing the meaning between them.
Where we work
Certifications + procurement readiness
Direnzic maintains business certifications and procurement registrations that support prime and subcontracting opportunities across public- and private-sector engagements.
Certifications
WBENCWomen's Business Enterprise
NMSDC MBEMinority Business Enterprise
SBA WOSBWoman-Owned Small BusinessPublic-sector procurement + vendor systems
LaGov ERPState of Louisiana vendor
Louisiana DOTDRegistered vendor
GDOTGeorgia DOT registered vendor
TDOTTennessee DOT registered vendor
LED Hudson InitiativeLouisiana Economic Development
Fair ShareProgram participantClient + partner perspective
Clients and partners rely on Direnzic to make complex cybersecurity decisions understandable, actionable and defensible.
Direnzic has provided cybersecurity guidance and support to our organization across several initiatives, including penetration testing, infrastructure planning, and regulatory preparation. Their team has been a valuable resource in helping us better understand our cybersecurity risks and strengthen our overall security posture.
Working with Direnzic allows us to confidently provide our clients with an unbiased assessment of their environment while ensuring they meet important regulatory and compliance standards. We value the partnership and the level of integrity and technical excellence they bring to the table. Direnzic has become a valuable extension of our service offering.
Representative impact
Direnzic has helped municipal and utility leaders move technical findings into prioritized remediation, executive decisions, accountable ownership and documented readiness.
RRA and ERP work for municipal utilities has included tabletop exercises, incident readiness, security testing and infrastructure planning designed to determine whether the response can actually work.
More than a decade of fractional CISO and executive cyber-risk leadership has helped regulated and public-sector organizations connect technical risk to ownership, priorities and leadership action.
Led and governed technology portfolios exceeding $30M across complex Fortune 150 environments, connecting delivery, risk and executive accountability.
Your next step
Upcoming · October 22, 2026
Pre-conference reception · October 21
A working day for utility and municipal leaders focused on readiness, funding and what recent water-sector attacks mean for the year ahead. Understand which programs can fund the work, what deserves priority and what is actually worth funding.
Start the conversation
No slide deck. Bring the risk you are most concerned about and leave with a clearer picture of where you stand, what matters most and what to do first.
Vendor-neutral · Confidential · Decision-focused · No software pitch