The Grid’s Greatest Threat Isn’t Outside.
It’s in the Meeting Room.
Grid Guard Solutions helps power utility professionals turn critical security and compliance initiatives into executive-ready business cases that get approved, funded, and built.
$2.5 Billion in Critical Grid Security Goes Unfunded Every Year.
Not because the grid is safe. Not because the threats aren’t real.
Every year, RSSC leaders — the professionals responsible for Reliability, Security, Safety, and Compliance — identify hundreds of initiatives that could protect critical infrastructure. Some are urgent: a NERC audit finding with a tight remediation window. Some are strategic: a multi-year program to harden the grid against evolving cyber threats.
Most of them get rejected.
Not by leaders who don’t care about security — but by executives who evaluate every funding request through a single lens: What does this mean for the business?
The problem is not the initiative. The problem is the language.
“Your technical expertise gets you in the room. Your business case gets you the budget.”
We Translate. You Get Funded
Three ways Grid Guard Solutions bridges the gap between the people who protect the grid and the people who fund the protection.
Audit+ & Assessment+
You went through the compliance audit. We make sure the findings lead to funded solutions — not just a longer checklist.
Business Care Development
You know what needs to happen. We help you build the proposal that makes executives say yes — in the language they actually fund.
Workshop & Training
Your whole team leaves the meeting differently. One day. One framework. A new way of connecting security to the business that sticks.
The Firm That Connects Compliance, Risk, and the Business Case
Most compliance consultants stay in the compliance lane. They’ll tell you what’s wrong. They won’t help you fix the conversation with your CFO.
The Big 4 can speak business language. But at Big 4 prices, and without the operational depth that comes from actually running a utility security program.
Grid Guard Solutions is different. We are utility insiders — not consultants who stumbled into the industry. We have lived every side of this problem: as operators, as compliance professionals, as business advisors. We know what it feels like to have a critical initiative die in a budget meeting. And we know exactly what changes when it doesn’t.
Deep Utility Expertise
NERC CIP, physical security, cyber, and operational resilience — from people who have actually run these programs.
Business Strategy Fluency
We speak both languages. Technical precision and executive impact. The translation is what we do
Boutique Cost, Big Results
Fraction of the cost of a Big 4 engagement. With more focus, more depth, and direct founder involvement on every project.
Practitioners. Not Consultants.
Mike Almeyda and Marc Gibson founded Grid Guard Solutions because they had watched this problem destroy good work for too long. Between them, they bring over 50 years of experience at the intersection of power utility operations, regulatory compliance, and business strategy.
Mike spent a decade advising utilities on NERC CIP compliance and physical security before co-founding GGS. Marc has 25 years building and advising businesses — with a specialty in helping leaders see their risk clearly enough to act on it. Both are featured speakers at GridSecCon.
They are not here to audit you. They are here to make your initiatives matter to the people who fund them.
FREE ASSESSMENT
Is Your Initiative Ready for the Budget Room?
Take our 10-question Business Case Readiness Assessment. Score your initiative against the 7 elements that separate funded proposals from rejected ones. Free. Takes 10 minutes. Honest results.