Securing the OT Space

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I have worked with overhead power, underground power, substation maintenance, wireless communications to substations, and networking of the system protection devices at substations. All this before landing in my present role of cyber security for production devices in the Water/Wastewater space. Even though this may seem like a wide, varied, and disjointed work history, there is a common thread through it all. And that is something called SCADA – Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. The secure flow of this process has taken on greater precedence after the multiple cyber-attacks on the Ukraine power system as well as the more recent compromise of the Water plant in Oldsmar Florida. And as such, it is a good time to be in the Water/Wastewater space as it tries to catch up to the more established cyber posture that is already entrenched in the power industry. It is enjoyable being in the middle of the cyber security awakening change period as it happens for the operational technology...