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About Direnzic

The firm leaders call when failure is not an option.

Direnzic Technology Consulting Group is a cybersecurity and AI governance advisory firm helping critical infrastructure, municipal, utility, and regulated organizations understand, prioritize, and act on cyber risk before it becomes an operational, financial, regulatory, or reputational crisis.

Our Story

Eighteen years of converting invisible risk into visible reality.

Cybersecurity is not a technical problem with business consequences. It is a business problem with technical causes. We have built our entire practice around that distinction.

Direnzic was founded in Monroe, Louisiana in 2008 as a digital forensics practice. We were the firm called in after something went wrong, and we were good at it. But case after case taught us the same hard lesson: by the time we were brought in, the damage had been done. We were a reactive solution to a problem that demanded a proactive approach.

So in 2010 we added cybersecurity to our service offerings, making us one of the first non-government companies to offer both digital forensics and cybersecurity to non-government entities. We earned our certifications, began pursuing federal and state RFPs, and by 2018 had expanded into transit authorities, our first deep work in the critical infrastructure systems that would become our calling.

2020 tested us twice. The government shutdown exposed the risk of a client base concentrated in federal and municipal accounts, and it hit us hard. But when the world went home, a new problem walked in our door: executives suddenly working from living rooms while still bound by regulatory requirements. We became the go-to organization for securing executive home environments, and the calls for fractional Chief Information Security Officer leadership kept coming. That demand built our vCISO practice, and that same year we opened our second location in Frisco, Texas. We have maintained both ever since: Monroe, where we were originally headquartered, and North Dallas, where our second office operates today.

Today, Direnzic works at the intersection of cybersecurity and AI governance for water utilities, critical infrastructure, transportation, manufacturing, and municipal operations, where a cyber failure is never just an IT incident. It is a public trust incident. The AI era did not change our mission; it accelerated the need for it. Our work helps leaders assess the risk, govern the exposure, rehearse the crisis, and defend every decision that follows.

We are a certified Woman- and Minority-Owned small business serving federal agencies, state and municipal governments, and private sector partners, and a third-party cybersecurity partner to MSPs who need independent, unbiased assessment for their clients.

2008
Founded in Monroe, LA as a digital forensics practice
2010
Among the first non-government firms offering forensics + cybersecurity together
2018
Expanded into transit authorities and critical infrastructure
2020
vCISO practice born · North Dallas office opens in Frisco, TX
Recognized by Bayou Silicon Top 100 Louisiana Small Business Development Center Dallas Business Journal Women Leading Technology DFW-ATW Thomas H. Scott and more
What We Believe

Cybersecurity should not be sold through fear.

It should help leaders make better decisions, protect communities, avoid preventable harm, and build systems that hold under pressure.

Translation over jargon

Risk in dollars, downtime, and decisions.

Our greatest value is explaining cyber and AI risk in clear, non-technical language that boards, executives, and operators can act on. If leadership cannot understand it, leadership cannot own it.

Readiness over reaction

Practice before the pressure is real.

A plan that has never been rehearsed is a document, not a plan. We build readiness as a structure: assess, govern, rehearse, defend, so the first fifteen minutes of a real incident look like coordination, not confusion.

Community over extraction

The systems we protect serve people.

Water, transit, power, public services: when these fail, real people carry the cost. That is why we educate as much as we advise, and why trust, candor, and relational integrity govern how we sell, not just how we deliver.

Ieshea Hollins, Founder and CEO of Direnzic Technology Consulting Group
Founder-Led Strategy

Fluent in the boardroom and the SOC, and translating between the two in real time.

Ieshea Hollins is the Founder and CEO of Direnzic Technology, where she serves as a Chief Information Security Officer and Cybersecurity and AI Strategist for organizations that cannot afford failure.

Her career spans more than twenty years inside federal agencies, municipalities, water utilities, MSPs, transportation, manufacturing, and regulated sectors, built at the intersection of technology risk and real-world consequence. Her background covers cybersecurity consulting, digital forensics, strategic planning, IT crisis management, program management (she is a certified PMP), and immersive cybersecurity education, with deep experience in industrial controls and operational technology environments where cyber failures reach beyond systems into public safety, operations, and trust.

What sets her work apart is translation. Executive teams leave her engagements understanding not just what their cyber risks are, but what those risks mean in dollars, downtime, regulatory exposure, operational decisions, and reputation, and exactly what to do about them, in what order.

She is the architect of Direnzic's proprietary body of work, including the Cyber Readiness Score™, ACRA: AI Cyber Readiness Assessment, ARG-CRP™, The Art of AI Adoption, the RRA-ERP Compliance Review, and the Cyber Crisis Leadership Program. Beyond client work, she hosts industry conferences, leads immersive trainings and the DT Cyber Games, and is a recognized voice in cybersecurity and AI adoption within critical and regulated sectors.

A plan that sits on a shelf is a liability. Cybersecurity only works when people understand it, own it, and act on it.

Ieshea Hollins

Founder & CEO  |  CISO  |  Cybersecurity and AI Strategist  |  PMP

The Direnzic Body of Work

Proprietary frameworks, built from the field.

Each framework exists because clients kept facing the same moment of pressure. Together they form one readiness pathway: assess, govern, rehearse, defend.

Measure

Cyber Readiness Score™

A leadership-level measure of cyber and AI readiness that turns scattered findings into one number executives can track, defend, and improve.

See the Readiness Ecosystem
Assess

ACRA: AI Cyber Readiness Assessment

A focused diagnostic that reveals where AI has entered your organization, what it touches, and what it now exposes.

Request ACRA
Govern

ARG-CRP™

A structured AI Risk Governance and Cyber Resilience pathway for leaders who need policies, accountability, documentation, and operational clarity.

Explore ARG-CRP™
Adopt

The Art of AI Adoption

For organizations adopting AI tools before fully understanding the cybersecurity, governance, compliance, workforce, and operational implications.

Explore the Program
Rehearse

Cyber Crisis Leadership Program

A leadership development experience for executives, managers, and operators who must communicate, coordinate, and decide during cyber disruption.

Explore Crisis Leadership
Comply

RRA-ERP Compliance Review

A specialized engagement for water utilities aligning risk and resilience assessment work with emergency response planning obligations under AWIA.

Request RRA-ERP Support
Community Commitment

Every year, Direnzic turns awareness into action.

For more than a decade we have opened our doors to the community through briefings, summits, cyber games, tabletop experiences, and education, because the people who run critical systems deserve more than vendors. They deserve neighbors.

June 2026  ·  National Internet Safety Month

The Direnzic Briefing

Internet Safety in the Age of AI

A live briefing for leaders who need to understand how AI is changing cybersecurity, internet safety, governance, vendor exposure, operational continuity, and public trust.

June 24, 2026  ·  11:30 AM CT  ·  Complimentary 90-minute executive briefing
Reserve My Complimentary Seat
October 2026  ·  Cybersecurity Awareness Month

The Direnzic NCAM Summit

Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Direnzic-style.

A two-day immersive event blending keynotes, live tabletop exercises, cyber games, training, and community workshops for the people responsible for readiness year-round.

October 2026  ·  Location and format to be announced
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Certifications + Procurement Readiness
Built to serve public-sector, regulated, and critical operations environments.
WBENC Certified Women's Business Enterprise
NMSDC Certified Minority Business Enterprise
LaGov ERP Vendor
Georgia Department of Transportation Certified
SBA WOSB Certified
Fair Share America
Louisiana Economic Development Hudson Initiative
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
Tennessee Department of Transportation
Where We Are

Louisiana roots. North Dallas reach.

Two offices, one standard: show up where the critical systems are.

Founding Headquarters · Since 2008

Monroe, Louisiana

200 Selman Dr · Where Direnzic began, continuously operating since 2008 and still serving the Gulf South region today.

North Dallas Office · Since 2020

Frisco, Texas

Our second location, serving Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, and the surrounding region, alongside federal, municipal, and private-sector clients nationwide.

Now you know who we are. Let’s talk about where you stand.

A 30-minute conversation is the fastest way to identify what may be hiding in your systems, workflows, vendors, AI tools, plans, and decision-making process.

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