From: Water Online
Cyberattacks pose a greater threat to water and wastewater utilities than most other industrial sectors.
Federal cybersecurity overseers at the Homeland Security Department say they received 159 reports last year involving “vulnerabilities in control systems components. The majority of vulnerabilities that were coordinated involved systems most commonly used in the Energy Sector, followed by Critical Manufacturing and Water and Wastewater.”
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Wastewater and water utilities are drawing an increasing amount of attention from cybersecurity overseers. The number of onsite cybersecurity assessments conducted by ICS-CERT, an organization within the Homeland Security Department, is on the rise. It conducted 25 in 2011, 72 in 2013, and 38 in 2014. This year, it conducted 21 onsite cybersecurity assessments within the wastewater and water sector during March and April alone.
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