Upstream, Midstream, Downstream — IT That Understands OT

Oil & Gas IT Services

Houston is the energy capital, and oil & gas IT is its own discipline — IT/OT segmentation, SCADA-aware monitoring, joint venture access controls, hurricane recovery, TSA pipeline directives, and cyber insurance underwriters who increasingly know what they are looking at. LayerLogix delivers managed IT and cybersecurity for upstream operators, midstream pipeline and gathering, and downstream petrochemical and refining across the Houston Energy Corridor, Permian Basin, Bay Area Houston, and Beaumont/Port Arthur. We bring deep IT and security capability for the business side, real OT awareness on the operations side, and the engineering judgment to know which systems we should not touch — at a fraction of the cost of an oil & gas specialist consultancy.

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What We Offer

Comprehensive solutions tailored for Houston-area businesses

IT/OT Segmentation & Convergence

We design and operate the segmentation between your enterprise IT environment and your operational technology (OT/ICS/SCADA) — the single most important architectural control in oil & gas cybersecurity. ISA/IEC 62443 zone-and-conduit models, jump host enforcement, and Privileged Access Management (PAM) for any user or process that crosses the boundary.

SCADA & ICS Security

Asset inventory, vulnerability management, and threat monitoring for OT environments — without disrupting production. We work with the legacy systems that actually run wells, pipelines, separators, and refineries: Wonderware, OSIsoft PI, Rockwell, Honeywell, Yokogawa, Schneider. We do not pretend OT is the same as IT.

Remote Site Connectivity

SD-WAN, satellite backhaul, cellular failover, and secure remote access for drilling rigs, gathering systems, well pads, compressor stations, and remote terminals. Field operations need uptime when crews are 200 miles from the nearest cell tower.

Joint Venture & Vendor Access

Multi-party operations need secure, audited access for joint venture partners, royalty owners, regulators, and field service vendors. We deploy zero-trust access architecture with MFA, conditional access, and PAM-based application control so partner access never crosses into your core systems.

Hurricane & Disaster Recovery

Houston-specific business continuity planning for hurricane evacuation, refinery shutdown coordination, and post-event recovery. Documented RTO/RPO targets, immutable backup with NinjaRMM/Dropsuite, geographically diverse failover, and tested annual tabletop exercises.

Compliance & Insurance Readiness

Support for NERC CIP-adjacent operations, TSA pipeline security directives, API 1164 pipeline cybersecurity, OSHA documentation, and the cyber insurance questionnaires that energy underwriters now treat with increasing skepticism. We translate cybersecurity into the language your compliance and insurance partners speak.

Why Choose LayerLogix?

Serving businesses throughout the Greater Houston area including Houston, The Woodlands, Spring, Conroe, Sugar Land, Clear Lake, Beaumont, Midland, Odessa, San Antonio.

Stop Ransomware Before It Reaches Production

The Colonial Pipeline incident put oil & gas operators on the front page for the wrong reasons. Privileged Access Management (PAM) — application allowlisting and ringfencing — combined with rigorous IT/OT segmentation is the architecture that keeps ransomware off your business network and out of your control systems.

Lower Cyber Insurance Premiums

Energy sector cyber insurance has become dramatically harder and more expensive to acquire. Documented IT/OT segmentation, PAM deployment, MFA enforcement, and tested incident response routinely reduce premium quotes 15-30% on renewal — and unlock coverage limits that would otherwise be unavailable.

Joint Venture Confidence

JV partners and field service vendors need access without becoming attack vectors. Our zero-trust architecture lets you grant exactly the access needed, log everything, and revoke instantly. When a partner gets breached, you do not get breached with them.

Operational Uptime

Production downtime in oil & gas is measured in dollars per minute. Proactive monitoring, redundant connectivity, and tested failover keep your business systems running so production keeps flowing — through hurricanes, ransomware events, ISP outages, and human error.

A Real Energy-Sector MSP

Generic MSPs treat OT like IT and break things. Oil & gas-specialist consultancies cost 3-5x what we charge. We sit in the middle: deep IT and security capability for the business side, real OT awareness on the operations side, and the engineering judgment to know which systems we should not touch.

Our Process

Onboarding discovery — full asset inventory across enterprise IT, OT, SCADA, field sites, joint venture partners, vendor connections, and cloud

IT/OT architecture review — map current segmentation, identify zone/conduit gaps per ISA/IEC 62443, document trust relationships across JV and vendor boundaries

Cybersecurity baseline — deploy MFA, conditional access, EDR, and Privileged Access Management (PAM) across enterprise IT; layer in OT-aware monitoring for control system networks

Remote site assessment — connectivity audit, redundancy review, secure remote access deployment for field operations

Compliance program — TSA pipeline security directive alignment (where applicable), API 1164 mapping, NERC CIP-adjacent posture for utility-touching operations, cyber insurance questionnaire preparation

Hurricane & DR planning — documented business continuity plan with RTO/RPO targets, immutable backup with NinjaRMM/Dropsuite, geographically diverse failover, annual tested tabletop exercise

Joint venture & vendor access — zero-trust access architecture for partners, vendors, regulators, and royalty owners with MFA, conditional access, and PAM-based application control

24/7 monitoring & response — managed detection and response across IT and selected OT environments, with energy-sector-aware playbooks and 24/7 incident response coverage

Quarterly executive briefings — vCISO-level reporting to leadership on threat landscape, cyber insurance posture, JV partner risk, and program maturity

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you understand the difference between IT and OT environments?▼

Yes — and we know which systems we should not touch. Operational technology (OT) — SCADA, DCS, PLCs, RTUs, HMI — runs on different protocols (Modbus, DNP3, OPC, Profinet), has different patching realities, and has different failure modes than enterprise IT. We deploy IT-side controls (MFA, EDR, PAM, conditional access) on the business network, OT-aware monitoring at the IT/OT boundary, and we partner with your control systems engineers or OEM service providers for changes inside the control system network. We do not pretend a SCADA workstation is a Dell laptop.

Can you support our Permian Basin field operations from Houston?▼

Yes. We provide managed IT and cybersecurity across the Permian Basin from our Texas footprint, with documented SLAs for remote site response, secure remote access architecture for field crews, and SD-WAN/cellular failover for sites that lose primary connectivity. For specific field activities (rig moves, well completion handoffs) we coordinate with your field IT lead or contracted service vendors.

How does Privileged Access Management (PAM) help an oil & gas company?▼

PAM is the single highest-leverage security control for energy sector IT. It blocks ransomware before it executes (default deny posture), satisfies multiple cyber insurance questionnaire controls in a single deployment, gives joint venture partners and vendors least-privilege access to specific applications without standing rights, and provides the audit log auditors and underwriters now demand. For oil & gas operators specifically, PAM also dramatically reduces the risk that a compromised business endpoint can pivot toward systems that touch OT.

Are you familiar with TSA pipeline security directives?▼

Yes. The TSA Security Directive Pipeline-2021-02 series and subsequent updates require pipeline operators to implement specific cybersecurity measures, designate a 24/7 cybersecurity coordinator, and report incidents to CISA. We support clients in scope of these directives with implementation work, documentation, and the 24/7 cybersecurity coordinator function as a managed service.

What about cyber insurance — energy underwriters are getting strict?▼

Strict is an understatement. Energy sector cyber insurance now requires documented MFA, EDR, immutable backup (we use NinjaRMM/Dropsuite), PAM or application allowlisting, vulnerability management, and incident response capability. Many carriers have explicitly excluded ransomware payment coverage. We package the entire control set into managed services and produce the documentation that gets you insurable — and frequently reduces premium quotes 15-30% on renewal.

Can you support both upstream and downstream operations?▼

Yes. We have clients across the spectrum — upstream E&P operators, midstream pipeline and gathering, and downstream petrochemical and refining (especially around the Houston Ship Channel and Beaumont/Port Arthur). The IT/OT architecture, cybersecurity controls, and compliance frameworks differ across segments, but the underlying disciplines (PAM, MFA, segmentation, monitoring, incident response) are the same.

Ready to Get Started?

Contact LayerLogix today for a free consultation. We serve businesses throughout Houston, The Woodlands, Spring, and the surrounding Greater Houston area.

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