About
Sand Dollar Cybersecurity, LLC
At Sand Dollar Cybersecurity, we are your trusted partners in the digital realm, guiding companies and individuals through complex IT and OT landscapes. Our mission is to empower clients with strategic technical counsel and cutting-edge advisory services, ensuring seamless integration, robust security, and optimal performance. With a focus on industrial computing systems, we safeguard industrial control systems and operational technologies, leveraging our technology-agnostic approach to provide tailored solutions. We stand as vigilant guardians, keeping clients ahead of adversaries -- and auditors -- and are committed to secure and innovative computing practices. Our commitment to excellence and seamless integration illuminates your path towards a safer digital future.
Empowering Cybersecurity Solutions
Strategic counsel for optimizing business processes in the energy sector through innovative technology management.
Team Members
Delivering strategic solutions for optimizing technology in energy sector.
Scott Pelfrey
Managing Member/Principal Consultant
Sand Dollar Cybersecurity is a veteran-owned company was formed to assist entities with compliance and/or technical counsel after Mr. Pelfrey retired from ReliabilityFirst Corporation (RF) – one of the six Regional Entities operating under the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). His 41 years of IT experience in OpenVMS, Microsoft Windows Operating Systems, Active Directory, Network Management and Support (to include NP-View), SCADA systems and security, Threat and Vulnerability Management, Physical Security, and Recovery Methodologies in both IT and OT has allowed him to gather expertise specifically for Regulatory compliance.
His past experiences run from when he started with RF in April 2007 -- before RF was incorporated initially -- in their Information Technology (IT) Department and was later promoted into the CIP Compliance Group in January 2014. Mr. Pelfrey has been a CIP Auditor for the past 11 years at RF. In addition, Mr. Pelfrey leverages real-world experience at an Ohio Utility from October 1998 through March 2007. He held positions in Information Technology where he installed Active Directory infrastructure, supported remote PI servers at all generation plants, installed DCS in large coal plants, and supported OpenVMS systems at all four of the utilities Nuclear Plants. Mr. Pelfrey was also a key member of the Real-Time Systems Group who installed and maintained the new Energy Management System (EMS) from Areva installed at the utility after the 2003 Blackout which at that time supported two regional Transmission Control Centers managing more than 15,000 miles of Transmission and Distribution grid components.
Managing Member/Principal Consultant