Mr. Lauriat brings over ten years of industry experience designing, planning and building secure computer networks. During that time, he has specialized in the electric power sector, but has assisted large clients in a wide variety of industries.

Since 2001, Mr. Lauriat has worked almost exclusively in the electric power sector. During this time he has helped large and small utilities across North America address some of their most vexing cyber security challenges. Mr. Lauriat has regularly created innovative and clever solutions to both improve cyber security and demonstrate compliance. Specifically, he has assisted several major electrical utilities with improving the security of their SCADA networks, including leading a large project to separate a production SCADA network from a large corporate network. Mr. Lauriat has lead efforts to assess the security of cyber assets at control centers, substations and generating plants, write cyber security specifications and policy, and redesign network security measures. Further, Mr. Lauriat has helped Responsible Entities ensure compliance with industry-based security requirements (NERC 1200 and NERC CIP). Since joining Network & Security Technologies (N&ST) in 2003, Mr. Lauriat has become nationally known in the field of cyber security for electric utilities, and led successful projects with dozens of utilites. Mr. Lauriat’s projects have been delivered on-time, on-budget and with solutions that have delighted N&ST’s clients.

Mr. Lauriat began his career with GTE Internetworking (BBN). While at BBN, Mr. Lauriat developed expertise in TCP/IP based networks and applications as well as security technologies. Major clients at BBN included a nationwide communications company, a large financial services institution and several international telephone companies. During this time, Mr. Lauriat performed numerous evaluations of client networks and lead efforts to address findings from those evaluations to help clients build dependable and secure networks.

Following his tenure at BBN, Mr. Lauriat was most recently a Senior Security Consultant at TruSecure. He led several strategic consulting programs delivering security expertise in a way that exceeded customer expectations for quality, schedule and price. While at TruSecure, Mr. Lauriat began working with clients in the electric power sector.

Mr. Lauriat received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. While at Middlebury College, he majored in Computer Science, and earned a degree with departmental honors. Mr. Lauriat is a Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) and has also held certifications from Cisco and Check Point in network security.