About
A small company with a large job
Girder was founded in Bangalore in October 2026 to bring the judgement of a seasoned OT security operation to every industrial site, using AI and keeping people in charge of it.
Mission
Give the people who run and protect industrial sites the intelligence they need, in the language they use, at the speed the plant needs.
Vision
Every industrial site, however small, with the awareness and judgement of a world-class OT security operation.
The gap between the handful of operations centres that have deep OT security expertise and the hundreds of thousands of plants, substations, water works and factories that do not is the central problem in industrial cyber security. AI can close it, if it is built by people who have done the work and held to the discipline of the work: name the source, quote the score, label the judgement, keep a human in charge. That is what Girder builds, one product at a time, starting with the daily brief and moving towards the analyst and the assessor.
Principles
- The plant first. Advice is mapped to where it sits in the plant and who should act on it, or it is not advice.
- Facts and judgement, kept apart. Sources are named. Scores are quoted and never estimated. Inferences are labelled as inferences.
- A human in charge. AI reads, sorts and drafts. A person who has done the job decides what goes out, and every outward action of a future analyst needs a human's approval.
- Independent. No vendor sponsors Girder; no vendor is left out; nothing is sold to the people we write about.
- Open about the method. The rules, the sources and the corrections are published, and mistakes are fixed the same day.
- Safety over speed. In industrial systems a wrong instruction can hurt people. Nothing Girder makes will ever tell a site to change a controller on the strength of a line of text.
Founder and CEO
Abhinav Roy is an OT/ICS security operations leader with more than a decade in critical infrastructure, energy and manufacturing. He has built and run a round-the-clock managed detection and response practice for critical-infrastructure operators across several regions, built detection libraries aligned to MITRE ATT&CK for ICS and IEC 62443, led ISO 27001 certification end to end, and handled major incidents personally. He is based in Bangalore, India.
He speaks and writes on industrial cyber security for operators, engineers, executives and policy makers: c0c0n 2026 ("AI Meets OT"), the Observer Research Foundation (AI and the future of work), and the Cyber AI Risk Summit, Kuala Lumpur, January 2027. He contributed practitioner comments on CREST's draft OT/ICS supplement to its SOC accreditation standard in 2026.
Recognition: Enterprise Security Champion, The Economic Times Enterprise Security Awards 2026; Security Transformation Leader of the Year, Future Tech Summit & Awards 2026.
Credentials: CISM; ISA/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Fundamentals Specialist; CEH v14; certified security operations analyst (cloud SIEM); Executive Programme in Business Management, IIM Calcutta (in progress); B.Tech, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering.
Founder and CEO
So far
- October 2026 · Industrial Cyber Brief launches: daily at 10 AM IST, with the executive report and the Purdue-mapped editor's reading.
- October 2026 · The weekly edition starts; Girder is named and takes its place at girder.in.
- Next · The Brief data feed, then the AI OT SOC analyst and AI risk assessment for factories.
Relay
Relay is Girder's mascot: a small controller module with a signal trace for a face, the steel of the masthead, the two LEDs every PLC owner recognises. Relay is the app icon of the Brief and the friendly face of serious work; it never appears next to a severity and never speaks for the company.
