(TLP:CLEAR) WaterISAC TOP ACTIONS to Enhance Your Utility’s Cybersecurity

Summary: The cybersecurity threat environment facing the water and wastewater sector remains complex, fluid, and turbulent. A series of domestic and international factors continue to drive cyber threats against critical infrastructure. Moreover, these threats are being driven by a widening range of actors who increasingly view the water sector as an attractive target such as nation-states, hacktivists, ransomware, among others.

In the face of rising cybersecurity threats, water and wastewater utilities can take concrete steps to strengthen their cybersecurity and reduce cyber risk. Consequently, implementing cybersecurity best practices helps utilities identify and mitigate vulnerabilities, lowers the risk of public health impacts, strengthens public trust, and more.

To help water and wastewater utilities, WaterISAC developed the “TOP ACTIONS to Enhance Your Utility’s Cybersecurity Fact Sheet,” which includes eight best practices that owners and operators can implement to strengthen their utility’s overall security footprint and enhance their operational resilience.

Original Source: Access the full fact sheet below.  

Additional Reading:

• WaterISAC’s 12 Fundementals for Water and Wastewater Utilities
• WaterISAC’s Cybersecurity Fundamentals for Water and Wastewater Utilities: Small Systems Guidance Compendium

Related WaterISAC PIRs: 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12