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// WHO IS HANS STUDY · ONTARIO, CANADA
Hans Study is an independent network and security consultant based in Ontario, Canada. He specializes in Genetec Security Center, ICAT design, and hardening the Windows, Cisco, and Aruba infrastructure that physical security and critical systems depend on. His work spans enterprise, public safety, defence, OT and ICS, and critical infrastructure environments across Canada and the United States.
Architecture review, sizing, deployment oversight, federation design, performance tuning, and post-deployment remediation on Security Center, Omnicast, Synergis, and AutoVu. Independent. Not a Genetec partner. No license revenue.
Integrated Communications Access and Technology design and project advisory. Owner representative work during deployment. The technical voice in the room when an organization does not have one of its own.
Windows Server, Active Directory, Cisco and Aruba network infrastructure, and the physical security platforms that run on top of all of it. Baseline against published standards (CIS, DISA STIG, NIST, CCCS), not vendor defaults.
The Genetec environment that passes commissioning and degrades under load. The Active Directory deployment that stopped synchronizing. The network that "works" until it does not. Independent triage across the whole stack.
Based in Ontario, Canada. An individual-led practice. Engagements run across Canada and the United States, primarily in environments where the cost of getting infrastructure wrong is not measured in inconvenience.
Federal, provincial, and municipal organizations. Government IT standards (GO-ITS, ITSG-33) and the procurement processes that go with them.
Defence industrial base, law enforcement, and public safety organizations operating under CMMC 2.0, CPCSC, and the security posture those frameworks demand.
Energy, water, transportation, airports, and the industrial control environments that sit underneath them. Purdue model architecture, IEC 62443, NERC CIP.
Multi-site, multi-server environments where the security platform has outgrown its original design and nobody internally owns the whole stack end to end.
Hans Study publishes working tools as open source on GitHub.
Background, credentials, teaching history, how the practice operates, and the things that are deliberately out of scope.
Practitioner-focused technical writing across networks, physical security systems, Windows hardening, switch configuration, and compliance.
Field-tested pattern review of the ten Genetec failures that show up most often. Companion to the Genetec Health Check.
OU structure, service accounts, gMSA, Kerberos, and the AD-side pitfalls that take Genetec environments down.
Power plan, SQL Server memory, NIC buffers, antivirus exclusions, video drive configuration, and camera stream settings.
Field reference for systems and security integrators. Microsoft Windows, Cisco, Aruba, and Genetec named throughout.
Field reference for Canadian defense suppliers facing CPCSC, with all 98 ITSP.10.171 requirements read in plain language. Free PDF.
An independent network and security consultant based in Ontario, Canada. An individual-led practice. Works with public sector, defence, public safety, critical infrastructure, and enterprise organizations across Canada and the United States. Focused on Genetec Security Center, ICAT design, and hardening the Windows, Cisco, and Aruba infrastructure that physical security and critical systems run on.
Genetec Security Center architecture and remediation, ICAT design and project advisory, and network and system hardening across Windows Server, Active Directory, Cisco, and Aruba. The work sits where enterprise IT, OT and ICS, and physical security overlap.
Yes. An individual-led practice, vendor agnostic, no equipment sales, no margin on what is specified, no commission on platform selection. The advice reflects what the environment needs, not what someone is selling.
Based in Ontario, Canada. Engagements run across Canada and the United States, primarily with public sector, defence, public safety, critical infrastructure, and enterprise environments.
Project work is scoped and quoted per engagement. Managed care and fractional CISO run on monthly retainers.
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