The new tenant of the former Higgins Armory in Worcester, Massachusetts, brings a modern twist on the ancient art of defense.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: What’s Next For Worcester’s Higgins Armory Museum?

Joe Provost remembers visiting the Worcester armory as a seven year old, in awe of the medieval knights and their chain-mail armor.

Decades later, he was looking to expand his cyber-security business, Syncstate, and learned the former museum — a steel and glass art deco building — had space to rent.

“We felt, you know, Wow, you walk into the building, that’s what we do,” he says. “We do it logically. We do it on the wire. It’s all of the same concepts. However, tools and processes have changed. But the building just fit us to a T.”

The armory closed in 2013 after 80 years as a museum.

To honor its history, Provost, who’s retired from the military, says he plans to display posters of medieval weaponry around the office.