Badhbh exists to close the gap between the quality of threat analysis available to government and military clients and what is available to critical infrastructure operators, commercial facility managers, and public authorities in Ireland and Europe.

That gap is real and consequential. The same threat actors targeting NATO infrastructure — Volt Typhoon pre-positioning in Western power grids, GRU proxy networks recruiting for physical sabotage, IRGC-affiliated groups exploiting default credentials in water utility OT systems — are operating against civilian CNI that has neither the analytical resources nor the security engineering depth of a defence ministry. The attacks documented in our Operational Analysis paper series are not hypothetical scenarios. They are confirmed incidents with named perpetrators, primary-sourced consequence costs, and engineering failures that were preventable.

Our mission is to apply the same standard of analysis and engineering rigour to civilian CNI protection that we have applied in uniform — grounded in operational deployment experience, referenced to governing engineering standards, and accountable to primary source evidence rather than to vendor-driven frameworks or compliance theatre.

We publish our analysis openly because the threat environment is shared. An Irish water utility that understands the County Mayo attack model is better protected. A substation operator who understands the Metcalf TTP chain can specify the correct countermeasure. A facilities manager who understands why the Stockholm decorative lions failed can write a procurement specification that does not repeat the same error. Publication is not a marketing exercise. It is what a security engineering consultancy with operational experience and analytical standards looks like when it takes its professional obligations seriously.