Renewable Energy Commitments
Primary infrastructure providers are selected in part based on published renewable energy targets, power purchase agreements, or third-party environmental certifications such as ISO 14001 or equivalent.
Company • Environmental Impact
Security operations shouldn't cost the planet.
ThreatGrid is committed to running lean, efficient infrastructure — choosing providers that prioritize renewable energy, minimizing data redundancy, and holding ourselves accountable to measurable environmental goals.
Our commitments
- Infrastructure hosted on renewable-backed data centers
- No unnecessary data retention or redundant compute
- Efficient tooling that minimizes active resource consumption
- Vendor selection considers environmental certifications
- Annual review of infrastructure footprint and efficiency gains
Infrastructure
100% Cloud-Hosted
No owned physical hardware. Our entire stack runs on cloud providers with documented sustainability programs.
Retention
Minimal Data Policy
We store only what is required for service delivery. Unnecessary retention is a security and environmental liability.
Providers
Renewable-Backed
Our primary infrastructure providers publish renewable energy usage commitments and third-party environmental audits.
Travel
Remote-First Team
A fully remote team means no daily commutes, no office energy overhead, and no business travel unless strictly necessary.
Our Approach
Efficiency isn't just a cost goal — it's an environmental one.
Security tooling has a reputation for sprawl: redundant agents, excessive log pipelines, always-on scanning infrastructure that burns compute around the clock. ThreatGrid is built around the opposite philosophy.
TLINK PRO is designed to consolidate — fewer tools, fewer integrations, less redundant data movement. That design choice reduces both operational complexity and the energy required to run it. Doing less, better, is good for clients and for the environment.
On the MSSP side, we run coverage through shared analyst infrastructure rather than deploying dedicated compute per client. Shared, well-utilized infrastructure is materially more efficient than isolated stacks that idle between incidents.
Design principles
- Consolidate over expand. Fewer tools with deeper capability beats a sprawling toolchain.
- Shared infrastructure where safe. Pooled resources run at higher utilization than isolated stacks.
- Async over always-on. Polling and event-driven architectures consume less than persistent connections at scale.
- Right-sized compute. We regularly review and downsize resources that are over-provisioned for actual load.
Vendor Standards
We hold our providers to the same standard.
Environmental responsibility doesn't stop at our own operations. We evaluate vendors and infrastructure partners on sustainability criteria as part of our procurement process.
Data Center Efficiency
We prefer providers that publish PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) metrics. Lower PUE means more of the energy consumed by a facility reaches actual compute rather than cooling and overhead.
Hardware Lifecycle Responsibility
As a fully cloud-hosted operation, we do not manage end-of-life hardware directly — but we prioritize providers with documented hardware recycling and responsible disposal programs for their own fleet.
Transparency and Reporting
We favor providers that publish annual sustainability or environmental impact reports, giving us and our clients visibility into the indirect footprint of the infrastructure our services run on.
Geographic Footprint
Infrastructure is provisioned in regions with favorable renewable energy grids where service latency requirements allow. We avoid over-replicating across regions purely for redundancy when a single well-backed region suffices.
Software and SaaS Tools
Internal tooling and SaaS platforms we use operationally are subject to the same review. We avoid onboarding platforms with no public sustainability posture when equivalent alternatives exist.
In Progress
What we're actively working on.
We don't have all the answers yet. These are the areas we're currently building measurement and accountability around.
Carbon Baseline
We are in the process of establishing a quantified carbon baseline for our infrastructure operations — covering compute, storage, network egress, and SaaS tool usage. We intend to publish this figure annually once methodology is validated.
Client-Side Guidance
We're developing guidance for MSSP clients on how to reduce the environmental overhead of their own security tooling — including log volume reduction, sensor consolidation, and right-sizing detection coverage to actual threat surface.
Supply Chain Review
A formal review of our full vendor and supplier chain against environmental criteria is underway. We plan to publish a vendor scorecard methodology and apply it to all significant spend categories.
Offset Strategy
We are evaluating verified carbon offset programs as a complement to direct reduction efforts. We're being deliberate here — offsets that substitute for real reduction work are not an approach we're willing to take.
A note on transparency
We're a small team. We'll be honest about that.
ThreatGrid is not a large enterprise with a dedicated sustainability team and a published net-zero roadmap. We're a focused MSSP and platform provider, and we think it's more honest to describe what we actually do and are working toward than to publish aspirational commitments we can't yet verify.
If you have questions about our environmental approach, or if you're evaluating vendors on sustainability criteria and want specific information, reach out directly. We'd rather have a real conversation than point you at a marketing page.