The general public knows the danger of identity theft or fraud — banking, medical or other personal records falling into the wrong hands. Recently, SCADA systems have fallen victim to increased threats.
Fortunately, wastewater agencies can take a number of basic and cost-effective measures to make their SCADA systems more secure. They start with simple awareness of the issues and extend to technology policies and procedures and technology risk analysis. Security measures can be scaled to suit collection and treatment systems of almost any size, age and complexity.
Three-legged stool
Information security is based on three tenets: confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA). In
