Convert invisible risk into visible reality.
Direnzic helps water utilities, critical infrastructure, transportation, manufacturing, and regulated organizations assess, govern, rehearse, and defend cybersecurity and AI-era risk before it becomes a crisis.
Internet Safety has entered the age of AI.
National Internet Safety Month is no longer just about passwords, phishing, and safe browsing. AI has changed how organizations use data, make decisions, expose systems, trust vendors, and prepare for cyber disruption.
The Direnzic Briefing is a complimentary executive session for leaders who need to understand what changed, where AI-era risk lives, and what readiness now requires.
The Direnzic Briefing: Internet Safety in the Age of AI
From AI adoption to crisis leadership, readiness has a structure.
Direnzic helps leaders move from uncertainty to defensible action: assess the risk, govern the exposure, rehearse the crisis, and lead with confidence when the pressure is real.
Assess
Identify where cybersecurity, AI, operational, vendor, and compliance risk already exist.
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- ACRA
- Cybersecurity assessments
- Penetration testing
- Vulnerability assessments
- RRA-ERP support for water utilities
Govern
Turn risk visibility into policy, accountability, documentation, and executive decision-making.
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- ARG-CRP™
- vCISO as a Service
- Strategic planning
- Cybersecurity governance
- AI governance advisory
Rehearse
Prepare people to act under pressure before the crisis is real.
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- Tabletop exercises
- Cyber Crisis Leadership Program
- Incident response planning
- Executive scenario training
Defend
Build the documentation, leadership posture, and operational readiness needed to withstand regulatory, legal, insurance, public trust, and reputational scrutiny.
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- After-action plans
- Board-ready reporting
- Compliance support
- Cyber resilience planning
- Crisis communications alignment
Your plan is only as good as the first fifteen minutes of a real incident.
These are the moments we rehearse with our clients. Real enough to matter. Redacted enough to share.
A municipal water utility’s SCADA controls go unresponsive. Your plant manager’s phone lights up. What does your first fifteen minutes look like?
Run this scenarioYour COO is forwarded a ransomware email during a public hearing. Cameras are rolling. Who talks first?
Run this scenarioYour AI-powered work-order system starts approving vendor invoices on its own. Who notices first, and how?
Run this scenarioFour services. One promise: make cyber risk visible, actionable, and defensible.
We don’t sell tools. We sell the translation, the plan, and the behavior change.
vCISO as a Service
Board-ready cybersecurity leadership for organizations that need strategic guidance without hiring a full-time CISO.
Explore vCISOCybersecurity Strategic Planning
Turn risk, compliance, operations, and leadership priorities into a practical roadmap.
Build the RoadmapIncident Response + Crisis Planning
Prepare your team to respond before disruption becomes confusion.
Prepare the PlanAssessments, Testing + Readiness Reviews
Identify the gaps before attackers, auditors, regulators, insurers, or the public do.
Assess the RiskBuilt for leaders responsible for systems that cannot afford failure.
Direnzic works with organizations where cybersecurity is not just an IT issue. It is an operational, financial, regulatory, and public trust issue.
Water Utilities
AWIA alignment, RRA-ERP support, SCADA protection, cybersecurity planning, ratepayer trust, and operational resilience.
Explore Water Utility Support →Critical Infrastructure
Cyber resilience, CISA framework alignment, operational continuity, stakeholder coordination, and crisis readiness.
Explore Critical Infrastructure →Transportation
Security directives, fleet and logistics continuity, vendor risk, incident response readiness, and public-sector accountability.
Explore Transportation →Manufacturing
OT/IT convergence, supply chain security, intellectual property protection, insurance-grade posture, and downtime reduction.
Explore Manufacturing →Choose the program that matches the pressure you are facing.
Each Direnzic program is built for a specific leadership moment: adopting AI, assessing exposure, governing risk, preparing for crisis, or meeting sector-specific compliance obligations.
The Art of AI Adoption
For organizations adopting AI tools before fully understanding the cybersecurity, governance, compliance, workforce, and operational implications.
ACRA: AI Cyber Readiness Assessment
A focused diagnostic that reveals where AI has entered your organization, what it touches, and what it now exposes.
ARG-CRP™
A structured AI Risk Governance and Cyber Resilience pathway for leaders who need policies, accountability, documentation, and operational clarity.
Cyber Crisis Leadership Program
A leadership development experience for executives, managers, and operators who must communicate, coordinate, and make decisions during cyber disruption.
RRA-ERP Compliance Review
A specialized water utility engagement for organizations that need support aligning risk and resilience assessment work with emergency response planning obligations.
Tabletops and crisis simulations that change behavior, not just check a box.
Most firms run rehearsed scenarios from a binder. Direnzic builds simulations around what is actually happening in your sector, with role-accurate pressure, realistic decision points, and after-action plans that change what your team does next.
Real scenarios, not generic exercises
Built from what is happening in your sector right now.
Built from current threat activity, operational realities, regulatory pressure, and sector-specific disruption patterns. Your team recognizes every turn.
Role-accurate pressure
Your GM sits in the GM’s chair.
Your general manager, operator, legal team, communications lead, vendor, and executive team practice the decisions they would actually face, in the chairs they would actually be sitting in.
After-action that sticks
A 30-day action plan, not a certificate.
The exercise produces a practical 30-day action plan, not just a certificate of completion. That is what turns a one-day exercise into a permanent capability lift.
Led by a cybersecurity and AI strategist who speaks both technical risk and executive consequence.
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.
With more than 20 years of experience working inside federal agencies, municipalities, water utilities, MSPs, transportation, manufacturing, and regulated sectors, Ieshea has built her career at the intersection of technology risk and real-world consequence, where cybersecurity failures impact not only systems, but also public safety, operations, and trust. Her background spans digital forensics, incident readiness, and executive cyber leadership.
She is known for a rare ability: speaking fluently in both the boardroom and the SOC, and translating between the two in real time. Her work helps executive teams understand not just what their cyber risks are, but what those risks mean in dollars, downtime, regulatory exposure, operational decisions, and reputation.
Ieshea is the architect behind Direnzic’s proprietary readiness ecosystem, 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, all designed to move organizations beyond compliance into true cyber resilience.
Through Direnzic, she partners with leadership teams to build cybersecurity cultures, guide strategic decision-making, and prepare organizations for real-world incidents, not just audits. In addition to her advisory work, Ieshea hosts industry conferences, leads immersive training experiences, and is a recognized voice in cybersecurity and AI adoption, particularly within critical and regulated sectors.
Ieshea Hollins
Founder & CEO | CISO | Cybersecurity and AI Strategist
Helping organizations that cannot afford failure prepare for what happens next.
The operators who trust us do not just fill out review forms. They pick up the phone.
Our clients come to us when cybersecurity needs to be understood by leadership, translated into action, and defended under pressure.
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.
Every year, Direnzic turns awareness into action.
Through briefings, summits, cyber games, tabletop experiences, and community education, Direnzic creates spaces where leaders, operators, technologists, and business owners can prepare for the risks shaping the future.
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.
Reserve My Complimentary SeatThe 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.
Join the Interest ListStart with the AI-Era Cyber Readiness Map.
Use Direnzic’s readiness lens to identify where cybersecurity, AI, vendor exposure, data governance, operational continuity, workforce behavior, documentation, and leadership accountability may already be creating hidden risk.
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Your next risk is the one you cannot see yet.
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.