Ieshea Hollins

I help executives answer three questions: Where are we most at risk? Who is responsible if things go wrong? And how do we build a security program the organization can realistically sustain?

When I ask “Who owns this?” that is often where organizations discover one of their greatest vulnerabilities.

I am the founder and CEO of Direnzic Technology Consulting Group, which I started in 2008 with roots in digital forensics and grew into a critical infrastructure cybersecurity and AI governance practice. Over more than two decades I have worked across incident preparedness, technology program management, and operational technology environments.

My work connects cybersecurity to business risk, operational resilience, regulatory obligation, and executive decision-making. Leadership teams rarely need more technical findings. They need someone who can translate those findings into priorities, sequence them against budget cycles and compliance deadlines, and say plainly where the next dollar and the next hire should go.

I serve water and wastewater utilities, municipal and county government, transit authorities, small and midsized businesses, and Managed Service Providers. For utilities and public agencies, that often means AWIA risk and resilience assessments and emergency response plans, EPA sanitary survey readiness, NIST CSF alignment, and OT and SCADA exposure in environments where availability and safety come before confidentiality. For MSPs and technology providers, I serve as the independent security voice that strengthens client programs while complementing existing IT services rather than competing with them.

I also advise on secure AI adoption, an area where most organizations are moving faster than their governance. Whether the pressure is growth, regulation, rising threat activity, or the absence of internal security leadership, my role is the same: give leadership an honest view of their exposure, a roadmap they can execute, and the security culture to make it stick.

• Critical infrastructure security: water and wastewater utilities, municipal government, and OT/ICS environments
• Virtual and Fractional CISO leadership, cybersecurity strategy, and executive advisory
• Risk and vulnerability assessments with prioritized, budget-aware remediation roadmaps
• Incident response, business continuity, and executive tabletop exercises
• Regulatory readiness across AWIA, EPA, and NIST CSF, plus board-level reporting
• Secure AI adoption, third-party risk, and cybersecurity awareness and culture