Origin Energy Services Ltd is one of Australia's largest integrated energy companies, operating across the full energy stack: natural gas exploration and production, power generation, and retail delivery of electricity, gas, solar, and LPG to over 4 million customer accounts. With more than 6,000 employees, Origin's operational footprint spans offices, generation sites, exploration acreages, and production facilities across Australia. The company also offers broadband internet services alongside its energy products.
From a security perspective, Origin presents a broad and consequential attack surface. The infrastructure mix is significant - operational technology (OT) at power generation and gas production facilities sits alongside a high-volume consumer-facing retail platform, a broadband/ISP stack, and the corporate IT environment tying it together. That combination puts critical infrastructure protection, OT/IT convergence, and large-scale customer data security all on the threat model simultaneously.
The company is actively involved in Australia's energy transition, investing in renewable energy projects and carrying a public commitment to halve emissions by 2032. That trajectory - new assets, new partners, evolving grid interconnects - expands the perimeter as much as it shifts the mission. Security teams here are operating across regulated critical infrastructure with real uptime and safety dependencies, not just data sensitivity.
