Our Mission

To redefine how cybersecurity and operational risk are understood within capital markets.

We envision a market environment where cyber exposure, national security sensitivity, and third-party risk are assessed with the same rigor as financial controls — integrated into board decision-making, regulatory disclosure, and transaction execution from the outset.

Sturnella aims to set the standard for independent cyber governance advisory in high-consequence sectors, where resilience, transparency, and capital access are inseparable.

Our vision

To provide independent, board-level oversight where cybersecurity, operational exposure, and capital markets execution intersect.

Sturnella advises resource, energy, defense, and growth-stage companies navigating IPOs, uplistings, acquisitions, and regulatory scrutiny — translating cyber and third-party risk into disclosure clarity, transaction certainty, and valuation protection.

We operate alongside counsel, underwriters, auditors, and transaction advisors to ensure governance precision in environments where operational risk becomes capital markets risk.

Governance for

CRITICAL MINERALS · DEFENSE · ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE

Our team

Sydnie Beckman

Founder and Strategic Risk Advisor, Sturnella

Sydnie Beckman works at the intersection of capital markets, cybersecurity governance, critical minerals and national security.

Her career spans investment banking, global operational risk at a Tier 1 financial institution, cybersecurity governance in regulated advisory environments, and more than two decades following mining, precious metals, uranium and critical-mineral markets.

Through Sturnella, Sydnie advises leadership teams on the cyber, operational, supplier and governance risks that can affect transactions, government customers, regulatory disclosure, production continuity and enterprise value.

Her work focuses on translating complex technical, market and public-policy developments into practical decisions for executives and boards—particularly in critical minerals, defense supply chains and energy infrastructure.

Sydnie is a member of the Black Hat advisory board, host of the Core Sample podcast and publisher of Sturnella Signals. She holds the CISSP, CISM and PMP credentials and speaks on cybersecurity governance, SEC disclosure, industrial resilience and national-security supply chains.