David Garland is a Senior OT/ICS Cybersecurity Consultant with over 25 years of hands-on experience and more than a decade in focused cybersecurity roles, currently advising clients at Accenture on protecting industrial control and SCADA environments. He blends deep operational know-how from oil, gas, power generation, and utilities with proven program delivery—designing NERC CIP-compliant architectures, vulnerability and asset management, and incident response improvements. A practitioner who codes, David has automated HMI development and built Python and VB.NET tools to accelerate deployments and enhance forensic capabilities. He’s led large-scale NERC CIP implementations, centralized event collection and alerting, and tuned vendor ICS monitoring tools to reduce risk and operational friction. Based in Greater Houston, he pairs field-level PLC/SCADA expertise with enterprise security controls, making technical recommendations that are both audit-ready and operationally practical.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (Summer 2014), Information Technology - Information Security Concentration, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (Summer 2014), Information Technology - Information Security Concentration at University of South Florida
Associate of Science (A.S.), Electrical Engineering Technology, Associate of Science (A.S.), Electrical Engineering Technology at Florida State College of Jacksonville
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David Garland - Senios Cyber Security Consultant at Accenture