USSF operational dependency analysis
Maps mission dependencies, key cyber terrain, trust relationships, vulnerabilities, and operational chokepoints for priority space systems.
About CAST
Cyber engineering judgment built in systems where failure has consequences.
CAST combines cybersecurity engineering, threat analysis, and Business-Critical Cyber Mapping to help commercial leaders understand how technical risk can become operational disruption.
Founder and Principal Consultant
Quanah “Hayden” Tracy
Cybersecurity engineer and operational cyber analyst with 7+ years across intelligence, cyber operations, space mission analysis, and cybersecurity engineering.
Hayden founded CAST to bring high-consequence operational analysis into the commercial market. That experience is now expressed through the CAST BCCM Analysis System, which connects business outcomes, shared dependencies, credible threat paths, evidence, and accountable action.
BUSINESS-CRITICAL CYBER MAPPINGCYBER ENGINEERINGTHREAT ANALYSISRISK CLOSURE
Experience behind BCCM
Grounded in operational work where disruption carries real consequences.
This experience was performed by CAST’s founder as an employee under other organizations before establishing CAST. CAST does not claim these programs as company clients.
NASA Gateway cybersecurity engineering
Developed implementation evidence, verification objectives, and a closed-loop workflow connecting findings to mitigation and residual-risk decisions.
Threat and vulnerability operations
Analyzed 240+ CVEs and planned more than 2,800 hours of cyber hunt operations that identified 12 previously undocumented vulnerabilities.
What this means for clients
Analysis that ends in a decision, not a stack of findings.
CAST can move from architecture, vulnerabilities, access paths, and evidence to the operational consequence leadership needs to understand.
Recommendations include business context, ownership, observable verification, and the evidence needed to show the risk was addressed.
Education and credentials
Grounded in current practice and continued development.
CompTIA Security+ · Google Cybersecurity Certificate
M.S., Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, in progress, expected Summer 2027
B.A.S., Intelligence and Information Operations, University of Arizona, Summa Cum Laude, 2024
Comanche Nation tribal member · U.S. Air Force veteran
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Bring the business outcomes you cannot afford to lose.
A 30-minute strategic discussion will clarify the unanswered risk questions and whether the Critical Operations Cyber Review is the right starting point.
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