CYBERNETIQ

CYBERNETIQ Inc. is an Ottawa-based cybersecurity firm founded in 2007 by Joe Cummins, a subject matter expert in the field. The company's creation was spurred by a grant from Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) to develop tools for protecting the nation's critical infrastructure. Cummins, a skilled ethical hacker for Control Systems Networks, leveraged his expertise to address the significant challenge of achieving complete network visibility for security operators. Initially operating in a less public mode, the company funded the development of its main product by creating and selling two other products and utilizing government programs.

The firm's core offering is the Control Layer Assessment Workstation (CLAW), a military-grade Attack Surface Analysis platform designed to consolidate an organization's entire stack of cybersecurity investments into a single, unified view. CLAW operates as a Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platform, providing a comprehensive visualization of the network, including OT, IoT, and IT sectors. This allows security operations (SecOps) teams, from threat hunters to incident responders, to see a full picture of their network, identify vulnerabilities, and assess threats in real-time. The platform is designed to be vendor-agnostic, demonstrating interoperability with firewalls from major providers like Cisco and Juniper, as well as open-source options. The business model appears to be based on licensing its CLAW platform to clients. Cybernetiq has received funding from investors including Invest Ottawa, NEXT Canada, and MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund.

The company's primary clients are organizations with strong security operations and engineering groups that need to pinpoint flaws within complex networks. This includes entities responsible for critical infrastructure and enterprise systems. By aggregating data from multiple sources into an intuitive, map-like interface, CLAW empowers security analysts to more efficiently detect and respond to threats, such as by pushing new configurations to firewalls to block malicious activity. One source indicates that CYBERNETIQ ceased business in 2024, but this is not corroborated by other search results. Keywords: cybersecurity, attack surface analysis, network security, SOAR platform, critical infrastructure protection, SecOps, threat detection, vulnerability assessment, control systems security, security orchestration, network visibility, Joe Cummins, CLAW platform, IT security, OT security, IoT security, enterprise network security, cyber defense, real-time threat response, security infrastructure consolidation