Sword is a trusted digital transformation partner for energy producers, transmission and distribution operators, and utility organisations. We help clients modernise operations through IT/OT convergence, data and information management, digital innovation, seamless asset transitions, and managed services that enhance performance, resilience, and operational safety.
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Full Lifecycle Capabilities across Energy & Utilities
Sword is a trusted digital transformation partner for energy producers, transmission and distribution operators, and utility organisations. We help clients modernise operations through IT/OT convergence, data and information management, digital innovation, seamless asset transitions, and managed services that enhance performance, resilience, and operational safety.
Helping organisations design, implement and scale critical operational assets and industrial systems through secure, resilient and scalable infrastructure.
- Secure-by-design IT/OT architecture, aligned with NIS, the NCSC CAF and ISA/IEC 62443
- OT data integrated with enterprise systems for real-time insight and better decisions
- Tackling obsolescence by modernising legacy systems and infrastructure
- 24-/7/365 remote monitoring and management from our Unified Operations Centre
Turnkey delivery of complex carve-outs, divestments and integrations, using M&A frameworks we have developed and refined over years of separating critical IT and OT environments.
- Due diligence and discovery
- Cyber Security Risk Assessment
- TSA review and exit planning
- Separation and integration planning
- Integration and transition execution
- Programme governance and assurance
Unifying complex geological, well, and engineering drawing data into modern cloud and platform environments for instant search, interpretation and digital twin enablement.
- Data and Information Management
- Document Control
- Document Digitisation
- Data Platform Engineering
- MDM, Governance and Compliance
Business Outcomes
Operational Resilience
Accelerated Asset Integration
Data-Driven Decision Making
Case Study
IT/OT Network & Domain Separation
Context
Delivering a multi-year transformation providing secure IT/OT separation, identity, and network architecture across more than 100 geographically distributed operational sites in an operational CNI environment.
Solution
Sword designed and deployed a scalable, segmented architecture aligned to NCSC CAF, NIS, and IEC 62443, implementing parallel environments and an OT DMZ to ensure controlled migration.
Outcome
Achieved complete network and domain separation with zero disruption to electricity transmission services, establishing a compliant target operating model for long-term operational resilience.
Leadership Spotlight
Phil Brading
Chief Operating Officer, Energy Sector
As Chief Operating Officer, Phil Brading works closely with organisations across the energy and utilities sectors, helping them address complex business and technology challenges. Drawing on extensive experience across oil and gas and critical infrastructure environments, he supports customers in strengthening resilience, modernising operations and realising greater value from their technology investments.
More Information
We provide turnkey M&A IT execution and governance; undertaking rapid discovery and design to securely integrate physical assets and complex data, application and infrastructure environments ahead of cutover.
Sword delivers specialist IT and OT convergence services for substations, integrating networks, servers, cyber security, communications, and operational systems. Our expertise spans design, deployment, migration, and managed services, helping transmission and distribution operators improve resilience, security, and operational performance.
Yes. Sword engineers possess full offshore survival certification (BOSIET/FOET) and specialized ATEX hazardous area training, enabling direct deployment onto offshore platforms, FPSOs, and onshore terminals.
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