OT Cyber Threat Landscape for the U.S. Water & Wastewater Sector
Summary: Dragos OT Cyber Threat Intelligence published a Water & Wastewater Threat Perspective stating that water systems are increasingly targeted by cyber adversaries, with risks to public health and safety and to the industrial control systems in OT environments. The report's recommendations are to improve remote access security, run rigorous vulnerability management, and build a defensible network architecture, alongside the SANS Institute's five critical controls: an ICS-focused incident response plan, a defensible architecture, OT network visibility and monitoring, secure remote access, and risk-based vulnerability management.
What's compelling: Water and wastewater systems provide essential services to billions of people every day, so an intrusion into their industrial control systems is a public health and safety event, not just an IT incident.
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