Astra Insight/Industries
Sectors  ·  Six Verticals

Cyber risk is
not generic.

Our sector practices are staffed by partners with operating experience inside the industries they advise, so the threat model, the regulator, and the operational reality are all on the table from the first conversation.

01 / Financial

Financial Services

Banks, asset managers, insurers, market infrastructure, and fintechs. We work across the prudential, conduct, and market-integrity surface, from CFO-level DORA programs to TIBER-EU red teaming and resilience testing of clearing and settlement systems.
Key exposure
  • DORA / NYDFS Part 500
  • Payments & wire fraud
  • Third-party concentration
  • Post-quantum readiness
  • Market-system resilience
02 / Health

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Providers, payers, pharma, and medical device manufacturers, where cyber failure has clinical consequences. Our practice combines HIPAA and FDA premarket programs with on-the-ground OT and clinical engineering work in active care settings.
Key exposure
  • Ransomware & clinical impact
  • Connected medical devices
  • HIPAA & HHS enforcement
  • Clinical trial data integrity
  • Pharma R&D IP theft
03 / Energy

Energy & Utilities

Power generation, transmission, oil and gas, water, and renewables, sectors where nation-state interest is constant and where OT, ICS, and IT estates have been collapsing into one another for a decade. Our OT practice deploys with site engineers, not from a head office.
Key exposure
  • OT / ICS intrusion
  • NERC CIP & TSA pipeline
  • Nation-state targeting
  • Supply-chain compromise
  • Grid resilience & recovery
04 / Public

Public Sector & Defense

Federal, state, and sovereign clients, defense primes, and supranational institutions. Our partners hold or have held active clearances; engagements span classified network architecture, supply-chain attestation, and resilience programs for critical national functions.
Key exposure
  • CMMC 2.0 & DFARS
  • Classified network architecture
  • Supply-chain attestation
  • Sovereign cloud programs
  • Election & civic integrity
05 / Technology

Technology

SaaS platforms, cloud-native businesses, frontier AI labs, and the suppliers that quietly hold a great deal of someone else's customer data. We work alongside security engineering organizations on customer-facing assurance, AI model governance, and the SBOM and supply-chain hygiene programs their downstream clients now require.
Key exposure
  • Multi-tenant isolation
  • SBOM & supply-chain hygiene
  • AI model & data security
  • Customer-facing assurance
  • Source-code & build integrity
06 / Retail

Retail & Consumer

Global retailers, e-commerce platforms, hospitality groups, and consumer brands, sectors with vast customer identity estates, payments exposure, and brand surfaces that adversaries treat as their working market. Our practice operates inside peak trading windows without disrupting them.
Key exposure
  • PCI-DSS 4.0
  • Customer IAM at scale
  • E-commerce & bot fraud
  • Brand & trademark abuse
  • Loyalty & gift-card fraud
An adversary studies your sector before they study you. We do the same, and we stay in it long enough to know when the wind changes.
Operating Principles · § VII
Sector Engagement

Speak with the
sector partner.

Each of our sector practices is led by a partner who has worked in the industry. Request a direct briefing with the relevant lead.

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