Stronghold

The Nexus of Security

Scope

Mural Design & Branding

STRONGHOLD: Displays the ongoing struggle against attacks that beset our cyber world and the protections that hold us from the tide.

The Associated Electric Cooperative mural project was an incredible opportunity to breathe life into six(!) meeting rooms on a newly remodeled floor of their HQ. Throughout the process we had the pleasure of working very closely with the core AECI team. Their vision was for each individual mural to follow a theme that would inspire employees by interweaving historic figures and objects with pop culture elements and even references to AECI itself.

Special care was taken to include a diverse and inclusive cast of inspiration, motivating the viewer to potentially learn about events that they may not have known previously. The result is a visually dense composition meant to unfold over time as details are discovered and explored.

Each mural is dedicated to a specific thematic and pulls together various historical and fictional figures, artifacts, and information to tell a visual story (with plenty of easter eggs hidden throughout).

Did You Find

1) Going "Into the Cloud" 2) The "SOC" (Security operations center) 3) A Cryptogram written on a book of Cryptography 4) AECI Territory Map 5) Reference to Brian Kernighan's popularized phrase that is ubiquitous with code being able to compile, load, run and output 6) Creeper Worm: The first computer virus 7) Reaper: The antivirus for Creeper 8) Phishing Attacks 9) Al-Khalil 10) Adi Shamir 11) Betty Snyder Holberton 12) Alan Turing 13) Joan Clarke 14) Jean Jennings Bartik 15) Hedy Lamarr 16) Al-Kindi 17) Firewall Defense 18) Denial of Service Attack 19) Malware Attack 20) Dictionary Attack 21) Lone Wolf Hacker 22) Agent Smith 23) Trojan Horse Attack 24) Master Control Program 25) Recognizer