When Infrastructure Gets Hacked
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Everything that he is talking about is basically correct and simplified. Having done this for a great number of years, I could tell numerous stories about various clients that are not public knowledge. A point of contention that I have with his commentary, is that in a lot of small municipal systems physical security of the facilities is for the most part a bad joke and much easier to defeat than a SCADA system. I’ve sat in on more than a few presentations by EPA/CISA/FBI on water / wastewater infrastructure, they are for the most part focused only on SCADA and PLCs that are in use, completely missing the other boat. And they’ll never listen to the average Joe working in the industry. IMO elevated storage tanks and ground storage reservoirs are the most vulnerable portions of the infrastructure to physical sabotage or attack.
As someone who deals with Excel spreadsheets a lot, my first thought is that would be easy to find what one is looking for if the name is unique.
Perhaps the same goes for probing incidents. “Muleshoe” stands out as a unique identifier and would facilitate feedback.