In January, the White House announced the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative – Water and Wastewater Sector Action Plan, a 100-day initiative to bring water and wastewater facilities up to speed with current cybersecurity.
Kenneth Crowther, product security leader for Xylem Applied Water Systems & America’s Commercial Teams, highlights the challenges of implementing a plan like this given the fragmented nature of the municipal water and wastewater industry. Not all is lost however, as new models for securing communities in a region can be used to address cyberattacks on the world’s most precious resource.
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Timestamps
- Intro | 0:00
- The purpose for a 100-day cybersecurity sprint for water | 0:47
- The challenges of applying lessons from other utility sectors | 3:32
- How utilities have traditionally handled cybersecurity | 6:25
- Cybersecurity as a service for small utilities | 14:23
- Next steps for water utility cybersecurity | 18:07
- Outro | 23:47
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