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VETERAN-OWNED OT CYBERSECURITY

Guarding the systems that connect your physical and digital operations.

Veteran-owned defense for the industrial control systems, facility environments, and OT networks that run your operations.

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FOCUS
OT Cybersecurity
MODEL
Veteran-Owned Consultancy
APPROACH
Defense-in-Depth
BASE
St. Petersburg, FL
WHO WE ARE

We defend the operational technology your business actually runs on.

FortressGuard Cybersecurity is a veteran-owned OT cybersecurity firm guarding the systems that keep operations running. We defend the operational technology, industrial control systems, and networks your production depends on, using a structured, defense-in-depth approach built for environments where downtime is not an option.

We work with teams who know their operations are exposed and want a straight answer on how to fix it — including organizations that are:

01
Waking up to the fact that their OT was never designed to be secure
02
Modernizing plants and adding connectivity that widens their attack surface
03
Facing customer security requirements, audits, or risk reviews
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Cutting real cyber exposure without ever putting production or uptime at risk
WHO WE SERVE

The teams running real-world operations, where downtime isn't an option.

INDUSTRIAL
Industrial and manufacturing operations
CRITICAL
Critical infrastructure and essential services
COMMERCIAL
Commercial buildings and facility control systems
MODERNIZING
Organizations modernizing facilities and operations
COMPLIANCE
Businesses preparing for audits or customer-driven requirements
HOW WE APPROACH SECURITY

Security that starts with understanding operations.

Effective OT security starts on the plant floor, not in a policy binder. A control your operators cannot live with is a control they will bypass, and a bypassed control protects nothing. We start with real visibility into what you are actually running, prioritize by operational risk rather than checklist, and leave behind defenses your team can sustain without us.

Operational-first — uptime and safety come before everything
Controls that fit your process, never fight it
Decisions driven by real visibility and risk, not guesswork
Defenses your team can actually sustain, not shelfware
OUR STORY

Why we went all-in on OT.

THE START

FortressGuard started with a simple idea: two people who wanted to help the businesses in our hometown keep their operations running.

THE INSIGHT

Working alongside local manufacturers, we saw what actually kept them running: the industrial systems, facility controls, and operational equipment on the floor. Those systems ran everything — and almost no one was securing them. That gap was impossible to ignore.

TODAY

So we went all-in on OT. Today we help operators protect the control systems and networks their business depends on — giving them a clear picture of what they're running and how to secure it without ever interrupting a shift.

Built on Trusted Partnerships

We work with partners who help us expand capability, strengthen delivery, and create better outcomes for the organizations we serve.

Lumen Technologies Small Business Partner

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