The 5 Things I Learned About ICS Operations From Jurassic Park
Summary: A Dragos blog post uses Jurassic Park as a teaching case for ICS security, noting that Isla Nublar's systems had to run fully independently for power, distribution, and water, and that the dinosaurs' escape traced back primarily to a loss of power rather than the animals themselves. The post cites the park's reliance on seven CM-5 supercomputing units in the Visitor's Center and the decision to put one employee, Dennis Nedry, in charge of orchestrating every PLC on the island.
Key Takeaway: The article's central point is that a single unhappy employee held the whole automation operation, and that a UPS lasting even one hour for the raptor and T-Rex enclosures might have prevented the escape - a concrete measure of how thin the margin was between one person's actions and loss of life.
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