Air Liquide produces and supplies industrial and medical gases across 60 countries, serving over 4 million customers and patients. With more than 120 years of operating history and 66,500 employees, the company's infrastructure underpins critical sectors - healthcare, manufacturing, and energy transition. That's a broad attack surface: operational technology networks managing gas production and distribution pipelines, medical device integrations, and global supply chain systems spanning six R&D campuses.
The threat model here isn't theoretical. Industrial gas production involves SCADA and ICS environments where a compromise has physical-world consequences - disrupted healthcare oxygen supplies, compromised manufacturing processes, or interference with CO2 emissions reduction and low-carbon energy systems. Air Liquide's ADVANCE strategic plan ties the company's future to energy transition and healthcare access, meaning the digital infrastructure securing those ambitions is load-bearing.
Security teams operating at this scale need fluency across IT/OT convergence, medical device security, and the regulatory patchwork of 60 jurisdictions. The technical domains - emissions reduction tech, low-carbon energy solutions, healthcare innovation - aren't just R&D labels; they're the systems where integrity and availability matter most. Air Liquide invests heavily in innovation, which implies expanding digital footprints that security has to keep pace with.
