David Ashby
David runs ARG's on-site physical audits and builds the continuous adversarial simulation layer. His background is quality, safety, and compliance at Quality Electrical Systems, a manufacturer of e-houses and power distribution buildings for utility-scale electrical infrastructure.
That work was hands-on: ISO 9001 mapped checklists, nonconformance processing, engineering interview guides, and structural-bolting audits. He is also a top-three creator on n8n.io, with working expertise in workflow automation, agentic pipelines, and LLM integration, which is what the continuous simulation layer is built on.
On an engagement, David is the operator on the floor. He runs the physical reconnaissance, the badge and entry testing, and the OT-aware audit that most cybersecurity firms are not equipped to perform, because he has worked inside the environments ARG sells into.
- What is physical penetration testing?
- What is a tailgating attack (piggybacking)?
- What is badge cloning?
- What is a physical security audit?
- What is a covert entry assessment?
- What is lock bypass?
- What is operational technology (OT) security?
- What is the IT/OT convergence problem?
- What is an industrial control system (ICS)?
- What is SCADA security?
- What is a PLC (programmable logic controller) attack?
- What is the Purdue Model?
- What is a supply chain attack?
- What is third-party risk for manufacturers?
- What is the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF 2.0)?
- What is CMMC 2.0?
- What is NIST SP 800-171?
- What is ISO 27001?
- What is CIS Controls v8?
- What is a risk register?
- What is a tabletop exercise?
- What is cyber insurance underwriting?
- What is a Managing General Agent (MGA)?
- What is social engineering fraud (SEF) coverage?
- What is continuous underwriting?
Find what gets through.
ARG runs continuous AI-driven adversarial simulation and on-site physical audits for mid-market manufacturers. Two founding-client spots remain.