Make Yourself Accountable for Your Utility’s Cybersecurity

WaterISAC Lead Analyst Chuck Egli has written an article for the California Water Environment Association (CWEA) encouraging employees do their part to prevent cyber incidents at their utilities on the occasion of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM). Chuck highlights some of the actions employees should take given this year’s NCSAM theme of “Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT.” These include measures for staying safe on social media, being prepared to spot and avoid phishing emails, and using WiFi in a secure manner. In his discussion of these measures, Chuck identifies some of the common mistakes employees make that can lead them to expose their utilities to incidents, such as assuming that a public WiFi network that requires a password is secure (someone else who knows the password can conduct the same malicious activity as he or she would on a network without password protection). Read the article at CWEA.