Building Resilience and
A Sustainable Future
Today’s critical infrastructure organizations face the daunting task of staying competitive, driving growth and profitability, while simultaneously tackling the greatest challenges facing our world.
At LucidCoast, we believe that by enabling critical infrastructure organizations to effectively manage these challenges, we can create a more sustainable and resilient world for all.
Building Resilience and
A Sustainable Future
Today’s critical infrastructure organizations face the daunting task of staying competitive, driving growth and profitability, while simultaneously tackling the greatest challenges facing our world.
At LucidCoast, we believe that by enabling critical infrastructure organizations to effectively manage these challenges, we can create a more sustainable and resilient world for all.
Resilience Is Optimizing Your SAILS
At LucidCoast, we have gained valuable insights from assisting our clients in navigating the turbulent waters of a constantly changing, complex, and interconnected market. We recognize that success requires a dedicated focus on managing five key areas, which we refer to as our SAILS:
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
~William Arthur Ward~
Resilience Is Optimizing Your SAILS
At LucidCoast, we have gained valuable insights from assisting our clients in navigating the turbulent waters of a constantly changing, complex, and interconnected market. We recognize that success requires a dedicated focus on managing five key areas, which we refer to as our SAILS:
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
~William Arthur Ward~
Investment in ESG assets may reach $53 trillion by 2025, all the while 80% of consumers indicate sustainability is important to them and are looking at companies to make corporate commitments toward carbon neutrality.
A relentless focus on sustainability is critical not only for humanity, the environment and our planet – but also brings direct and positive impact on business results.
75% of respondents in a worldwide CEO survey cited system reliability as the fundamental reason to invest in enterprise asset management (EAM).
Asset performance optimization bears directly on the quality, costs and resilience of an organization’s products and services. Beyond just configuration, maintenance and operations – mature asset management is at the heart of critical infrastructure resilience.
Technology is at the core of everything we do today. Every organization must have a continuous focus on aligning IT Infrastructure, capabilities and technology management practices to meet the ever-changing needs of the business.
IT / Business strategy alignment guides technology architecture, which in turn informs infrastructure and technology priorities. The key to resilience is a mature approach to the IT Infrastructure lifecycle.
From the C-suite to the front-line, leadership and culture are paramount to resilience. Too often in today’s fast-paced and tech-powered world, organizations neglect the criticality of the human element.
Leadership development, organizational change management and effective empowerment of people through process and policy are ‘superpower’ components of success in developing and fostering resilience.
As the Threat Landscape grows with increasingly connected and sophisticated devices, networks, technology, and security are a top priority for technology, assets, and personnel.
Security must be everyone’s responsibility and having a corporate alignment to optimally balance risk, resilience, and effectiveness will continue to help enable the organization to stay protected and fully operational.
Investment in ESG assets may reach $53 trillion by 2025, all the while 80% of consumers indicate sustainability is important to them and are looking at companies to make corporate commitments toward carbon neutrality.
A relentless focus on sustainability is critical not only for humanity, the environment and our planet – but also brings direct and positive impact on business results.
75% of respondents in a worldwide CEO survey cited system reliability as the fundamental reason to invest in enterprise asset management (EAM).
Asset performance optimization bears directly on the quality, costs and resilience of an organization’s products and services. Beyond just configuration, maintenance and operations – mature asset management is at the heart of critical infrastructure resilience.
Technology is at the core of everything we do today. Every organization must have a continuous focus on aligning IT Infrastructure, capabilities and technology management practices to meet the ever-changing needs of the business.
IT / Business strategy alignment guides technology architecture, which in turn informs infrastructure and technology priorities. The key to resilience is a mature approach to the IT Infrastructure lifecycle.
From the C-suite to the front-line, leadership and culture are paramount to resilience. Too often in today’s fast-paced and tech-powered world, organizations neglect the criticality of the human element.
Leadership development, organizational change management and effective empowerment of people through process and policy are ‘superpower’ components of success in developing and fostering resilience.
As the Threat Landscape grows with increasingly connected and sophisticated devices, networks, technology, and security are a top priority for technology, assets, and personnel.
Security must be everyone’s responsibility and having a corporate alignment to optimally balance risk, resilience, and effectiveness will continue to help enable the organization to stay protected and fully operational.
Who We Serve
LucidCoast was founded on a vision of doing meaningful work to help improve the world we live in.
We focus on asset-intensive, critical infrastructure segments of utilities, federal, state, local government, manufacturing, health care and education as our primary sectors.
We believe these to be areas of significant contribution to improving the way the world works and to the sustainability and resilience of life on earth.
Who We Serve
LucidCoast was founded on a vision of doing meaningful work to help improve the world we live in.
We focus on asset-intensive, critical infrastructure segments of utilities, federal, state, local government, manufacturing, health care and education as our primary sectors.
We believe these to be areas of significant contribution to improving the way the world works and to the sustainability and resilience of life on earth.
Client Examples
Asset Management Optimization
Large utilities like DTE Energy rely on enterprise-class Asset Management and Asset Optimization capabilities to ensure system reliability and delivery of critical infrastructure services to millions of businesses and residences across the country.
We work with utilities to drive down their overall cost of asset management, implement improvements to support asset optimization and help transform Enterprise Asset Management as a strategic capability supporting resilience and sustainability.
Maturing Resilience & Sustainability
Across the country, some of the bedrock of critical infrastructure is our smaller, local utility base. Whether cooperatives, municipally-owned or private enterprises – our small and mid-tier utilities face a daunting task ahead. The modernization of grid technologies, the rapidly-changing mix of generation and distribution technology combined with the increasing volatility of weather, climate and even physical attacks on infrastructure means that resilience and sustainability need to be top priorities for these organizations.
Helping smaller utilities such as the Marquette Board of Light and Power with modernizing and transforming their customer management systems, cybersecurity, and enterprise asset management is one of our core competencies and some of the most rewarding work we do.
Improving Risk-Resilience with Cyber-Intelligent Solutions
There are over 90,000 small municipal government structures in the United States. Nearly all of them are budget and resource constrained while trying to manage highly sensitive PII data with generally limited staff members or funding to keep pace with the cybercriminals who are looking to infiltrate, steal and/or destroy any valuable information they possess.
This is why LucidCoast has a specific focus on serving agencies like the City Of Negaunee Michigan – where our innovative solutions and consulting services help the organization implement world-class, enterprise-grade network security, ransomware protection and AI-powered cyber-risk-mitigation at a cost-optimized price point. Our nation’s local governments represent key targets in the ongoing cyberwars being waged by nation state interests and other cybercriminals. We help these organizations protect their citizens with force-multiplier solutions, services, and capabilities to keep the bad guys at bay.
Extending SOAR & XDR in the Next-Gen of Cybersecurity
Our mission to build resilience through cybersecurity takes us into many different aspects of enterprise security. In addition to our focus on bringing solutions to end customers in the critical infrastructure space, we’ve also served leading cybersecurity partners and vendors as value-add members of their teams.
LogRhythm is a global leader in SIEM, SOAR and a sought expert resource with deep industry expertise in cybersecurity to support the development of their Next-Gen SIEM / SOAR / XDR platforms. Our full stack cybersecurity developers and product owners brought key leadership, skillsets, and field perspective as part of a multi-partner complex development program.
Partnering with Education to Close the Cyber-Skills Gap
With over half a million unfilled jobs in cybersecurity, the cyber-skills gap keeps widening. One of the greatest threats to our critical infrastructure is simply the inability to keep up with this massive demand.
Traditional educational approaches take too long and fail to impart practical, hands-on skills. The practical, hands-on training marketplace is fragmented and confusing which continues to perpetuate the issue.
Social Impact is a core value of The LucidCoast Way. We create internships, apprenticeships, and talent development initiatives that will serve our clients, communities, and the world by accelerating talent outcomes in cybersecurity.
One such effort has been our collaboration with Northern Michigan University, the State of Michigan, 21 public school districts and over three dozen other industry partners in building and supporting the Upper Peninsula Cybersecurity Talent Consortium.
This multi-year, multi-million dollar initiative helps provide accelerated career paths for high school, middle college, college and non-traditional learners entering the cybersecurity market. We take our commitment to critical infrastructure security seriously, and are committed to helping empower the next generation of cyber-defenders.
Ready to Optimize your SAILS?
At LucidCoast, we would be honored to work with you to optimize your organization’s SAILS to help you navigate the challenging waters of your journey. Click below to get started by booking a free consultation. We look forward to hearing from you.