Ziply Fiber launched in 2020 as a regional ISP built on fiber-optic broadband infrastructure, serving roughly 1.3 million residential and business customers across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. The company's core offering is symmetrical-speed internet with no data caps, alongside TV and home phone services. Its stated mission centers on expanding fiber connectivity to underserved communities in the Pacific Northwest.
For security professionals, the threat surface is substantial: a carrier-grade network spanning four states, handling traffic for over a million endpoints, managing customer data, billing systems, and the operational technology that keeps fiber infrastructure running. The telecom vertical carries its own attack profile - BGP hijacking, SS7-level protocol abuse, DDoS targeting critical routing infrastructure, and supply-chain risk across network hardware. Ziply's relative youth as a company (founded 2020) means its security stack is being built in an era where zero-trust architecture and cloud-native tooling are baseline expectations, not legacy afterthoughts.
The Pacific Northwest footprint also places Ziply in a region with a dense concentration of tech-savvy users and enterprises, which raises both the sophistication bar for threat actors and the expectations around incident response, network monitoring, and data protection. Security roles here span the full spectrum - network defense, application security, identity and access management, and the operational security of a physical fiber plant that stretches across rural and urban terrain alike.
