Acuity Brands is the largest lighting company in North America, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with a footprint spanning Europe and Asia. But the attack surface here isn't just corporate IT - it's industrial technology deployed at scale. The company designs, manufactures, and markets lighting systems, lighting controls, building management solutions, and audio, video, and control platforms. That means firmware in luminaires, networked building automation systems, AV control infrastructure, and the management planes that tie them all together. Every connected device in a smart building is a potential entry point.
With roughly 13,000 associates and heritage brands stretching back over a century, Acuity operates in a space where OT and IT convergence is the actual threat model. Building management systems and lighting controls run on protocols that weren't designed with zero-trust in mind. The company's Intelligent Spaces segment - covering building management and AV platforms - pushes deeper into networked environments where security failures have physical consequences: occupied buildings, controlled environments, real people.
Acuity aggressively deploys capital to grow into new verticals, which means the security team isn't defending a static perimeter. New product lines, new integrations, new supply chain dependencies. The scope spans embedded device security, platform hardening, secure SDLC across product engineering, and the corporate infrastructure backing it all. For anyone working at the intersection of IoT security, industrial control systems, and enterprise defense, this is a company where the work touches real-world infrastructure at building scale.
