Love Hz

For manufacturers and industrial operators

Independent OT network architecture.

I am Ben Ward. I design OT and IT/OT networks, and I review the designs that vendors and integrators propose. I did this for eight years in Jaguar Land Rover's plants, after twenty years in service provider and enterprise networks.

I do not sell or resell equipment, and no vendor pays me. My advice is about your estate, not about a product.

Available by the day, part time or on retainer.

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How I can help

  • On call

    I join your team for a day or two when it needs someone who has done this before: to answer a design question, to explain a firewall policy to both IT and OT, or to keep a project moving while you recruit. You book days as you need them.

  • Reviews before you sign

    I check what a vendor or integrator has proposed against your own architecture before you commit: the design, the bill of materials and the cost of running it. The review has a fixed scope and a written result.

  • Part-time design authority

    Some programmes need one person to own the design. I hold that design across IT, OT, security and suppliers, so that each site is built the same way, and I write the decisions down for the team that will run it.

  • Board advice

    I give boards and investors an independent view before money is committed: whether an investment is the right one, who should own the risk, and whether a site can keep running if it is cut off. I also review the plant networks of acquisition targets.

What I have done

My career history is on my LinkedIn profile.

Contact

Email is the best way to reach me. A sentence or two about the problem is enough to start.