Security Hot Takes: The Aliquippa Water Breach
The Aliquippa Water Authority breach is a case study in how a basic, avoidable systems-integration failure — not a sophisticated exploit — can expose critical infrastructure to compromise...
Before analyzing the incident itself, it is worth clarifying the terminology used throughout operational technology (OT) security discussions, since the terms are often used interchangeably despite having distinct meanings.
Operational technology (OT) is the umbrella term for any technology that interacts with the physical world — that is, any system that senses and measures an environment or a process, or manipulates and changes that process in some way.
Industrial control systems (ICS) are a subset of OT. ICS provides automation for manufacturing and industrial processes: it senses and measures a process (temperature, pressure, tank level, and so on) and it can change that process (opening or closing a valve, changing pump speed, switching a heater on or off).
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3 sections- 1 Table of Contents
- 2 Module 1: The Aliquippa Water Authority OT/ICS Breach
- 3 Summary
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