Location Ontario, Canada, North America Regions Great Lakes Gender Male
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Hans Study is a network and security expert based in Ontario, Canada, serving clients across Canada and the United States. He works as an independent consultant and advisor, with a specialty in the convergence of IT and OT, and is a Genetec expert.
His focus is the design, integration, and hardening of physical security systems on enterprise
networks, the place most projects leave the network side undone. He designs and secures Genetec Security Center deployments and the network infrastructure underneath them, and works as an ICAT integration designer on large security and communications scopes. His range covers physical security platforms (Genetec, C-CURE, Avigilon, Milestone, Axis, and Bosch) and network hardening across Cisco, Aruba, Alcatel-Lucent, Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Juniper, for federal, defence, public safety, and critical infrastructure clients. He has 15+ years across these environments.
He works vendor-neutral. No reseller agreements, no equipment sales, no commission on platform selection. The recommendation reflects what the environment needs, not what someone is selling.
He also serves as a fractional CISO and vCISO for organizations that need senior security leadership without a full-time hire, combining cyber and physical security executive oversight in a single role, which most fractional executives can't deliver because of the cross-disciplinary scope.
He also teaches and writes to share what the field rarely documents well. His Study Guide series and courseware are built for the people who do the work, systems and security integrators, drawn from field experience rather than theory. He has taught Cisco CCNA and network security at the post-secondary level.
He holds the CISSP. His view on credentials is plain: certifications tell you someone passed a test, they don't tell you whether the person can do the work.
