Energy Exemplar, founded in 1999, builds the simulation and modeling software that underpins energy market operations worldwide. Its platforms - flagship PLEXOS, plus Aurora and Adapt2 - run scenarios across power, gas, water, and hydrogen systems, used by over 600 clients in nearly 90 countries. Utilities, regulators, traders, and financial institutions depend on these tools to forecast and optimize in a sector where a bad model or a compromised dataset translates directly into market risk and grid instability.
That dependency is the threat model. Energy Exemplar's software sits at the intersection of critical infrastructure planning and financial decision-making - targets for nation-state actors, market manipulators, and ransomware operations. The attack surface spans the platforms themselves, the data pipelines feeding them, and the integrity of simulation outputs that drive real capital allocation and regulatory decisions.
Security here isn't about perimeter defense on a static network. It's about protecting complex, data-intensive systems that model renewable integration, multi-commodity optimization, and forecasting at global scale. The technical domains - energy modeling, simulation, forecasting, optimization - demand engineers who understand that in energy infrastructure software, integrity and availability aren't features. They're load-bearing walls.
