About Piper Secure
A high-prestige advisory firm with a plant-floor point of view.
We advise executive leadership and boards on making the right cyber decisions when technical risk becomes business risk.
Who we are
Independent by structure, partner-led by design.
Piper Secure is a partner-led cybersecurity advisory firm focused on manufacturing environments, where uptime, safety and operational continuity are mission-critical.
We help leaders reduce cyber risk without disrupting operations. Our work centers on IT/OT convergence, cyber risk governance and executive decision support, and we bring the same discipline to professional-services firms whose business depends on confidentiality.
Piper Secure operates as an independent advisory firm under Kirchberg LLC, its holding company.
Discretion
Client names stay private. Findings travel through secure channels on a need-to-know basis.
Respect for operations
Uptime and safety set the boundaries for every recommendation we make.
Plain language
If a board member can’t repeat it, we haven’t finished the work.
Independence
No product quotas, no integrator kickbacks, no conflicts hiding in the roadmap.
Our difference
Experience you can’t buy from a tool vendor.
Piper Secure advisors bring decades of real-world manufacturing cybersecurity leadership. We’ve sat in the plant manager’s office and the boardroom, often in the same week.
- Hundreds of manufacturing facilities secured globally
- Enterprise IT/OT convergence programs led end to end
- Cyber risk presented to boards in business terms
- Incidents managed where downtime carried multi-million-dollar consequences
Vendor-neutral by design: our recommendations aren’t shaped by product quotas or integrator relationships.
Leadership
The partner you meet is the partner who does the work.
Kip Kirchberg
Founder & Principal Advisor
Kip leads every Piper Secure engagement personally. His background is in security architecture and cyber risk evaluation for large, multi-site manufacturing environments: securing facilities, leading IT/OT convergence work, and translating findings into mitigation strategy that executives, boards and auditors can act on.
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Talk to a partner, not a sales team.
A 30-minute confidential conversation to understand what’s at stake and whether we’re the right fit. NDA available before any technical discussion.