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– NETWORK AND SECURITY EXPERT · INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT AND ADVISOR · Ontario, Canada
Networks, physical security, and cybersecurity.
Independent advice on all three.
Hans Study is an independent network and security consultant and advisor based in Ontario, Canada. Boutique work in controls, security systems, and the infrastructure underneath them. Hardening and tuning specialist for Microsoft Windows, Cisco, Aruba, and Genetec. Clients engage Hans when the problem is complicated and they need someone who will tell them what is true, not what is profitable to say.
15+ Years in enterprise infrastructure and security
6 Core sectors served across Canada and the US
100s+ Practitioners taught and mentored
– ABOUT HANS STUDY
Technical depth across multiple disciplines.
I started the way a lot of people in this field do. Fixing computers for friends and family, then picking up work installing small business networks and CCTV systems. By 2010 that had grown into my own IT firm. What followed over the next fifteen years is where the depth comes from.
I have spent my career working across public sector, defence, public safety, and critical infrastructure environments, designing and integrating the technology those organizations depend on. That includes years working directly in the federal space on mission-critical networks where failure was not an option.
That depth led to teaching at the post-secondary level. Cisco CCNA, Introductory and Advanced Networking, Information Security, and Microsoft Windows Server and Workstation. Teaching is where you find out how well you actually understand something. Mentoring practitioners and integrators is still part of the work today.
Today I consult independently across Canada and the United States on enterprise networks, OT and ICS security, physical security systems, and ICAT design. The technical writing and the tools on this site come out of that consulting work, not the other way around.
Technical Depth Across Multiple Disciplines
Enterprise networks, cybersecurity, and physical security. Each understood well enough to advise on, and to see how decisions in one affect the others. Most consultants cover one area. Very few cover all three independently.
Over Fifteen Years of Real Experience
Across sectors and project types, including the ones that went sideways before I helped fix them. That experience is how I catch risks early, before they become expensive problems on a live project.
The Read Is Candid
My recommendations do not change based on who is selling. I work with most of these vendors and my read on them is candid. Where they have done something right, and where they have not. What you get is an honest assessment of what fits the environment.
Advice That Follows Through
A recommendation that ends at the design phase is a document, not advice. The goal is a system that performs in the field. That means I stay engaged through delivery and stay available when the integrator hits something unexpected.
– CONSULTING AND ADVISORY
Six areas where independent technical guidance makes the biggest difference.
Most engagements touch more than one area, because the problems rarely stay within a single boundary. Decisions in one area have a way of creating consequences in another.
Enterprise Network Architecture
Most enterprise network problems are architectural. Equipment gets blamed because it is visible. The actual issue is a design that was never there, or segmentation added as an afterthought.
Learn more →Industrial and OT Networks
OT environments have constraints that enterprise network thinking does not account for. Systems that cannot tolerate a reboot. Legacy protocols with no authentication. Failure measured in operational disruption.
Learn more →CCTV and Access Control
Most physical security networks are under-designed and under-managed. The system that protects your facility runs on infrastructure that gets less attention than the cameras themselves.
Learn more →Genetec Security Center
Independent Genetec consulting. Architecture review, deployment oversight, troubleshooting. Not a reseller. No license revenue.
Learn more →Data Centre and Cabling
Physical layer problems are cheap to fix at design and expensive after construction. Pre-construction review catches them before they become installed facts.
Learn more →Physical Security Design
Design and gap assessment for access control, CCTV, and integrated physical security systems. From threat model to specification.
Learn more →ICAT Design and Project Advisory
Integrated facility systems advisory, owner's representative services, and commissioning oversight for complex physical security and technology projects.
Learn more →Mentorship and Technical Guidance
For integrators on complex bids, practitioners closing knowledge gaps, and organizations that need an independent technical voice on a project in progress.
Learn more →– STUDY BYT3S
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Most engagements start with a conversation about what the organization is trying to accomplish.
If you have a project coming up, a system that is not performing the way it should, or an upcoming procurement that needs independent technical input, reach out directly. No minimum project size. No retainer required.