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The control systems of public drinking water utilities are vulnerable to attack by malicious hackers. This has been shown through several penetration tests and studies, and recently gained national attention by the purported (but non-existent) attack on an Illinois public drinking water utility in November, 2011. This talk will examine the vectors of attack on the IT systems of a drinking water utility, their vulnerabilities, proposed defensive measures, and potential consequences of an attack. The control systems, including the programmable logic controllers (PLC’s) and the human machine interface (HMI), will be described. The talk will discuss the many institutional, cultural, and financial obstacles to ensuring that the national public drinking water infrastructure is adequately protected from cyber-attacks. The current threat environment of the national drinking water infrastructure will be discussed along with existing programs to address those threats and finally a discussion of what more needs to be done.
John McNabb is Principal of InfraSec Labs, where he conducts research on the security of the drinking water infrastructure. He has presented papers on that subject at Defcon and Black Hat. He was an elected Water Commissioner for a small drinking water utility for 13 years. John has published several papers on drinking water infrastructure and recently wrote a chapter on drinking water security for the book, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism, 2nd Ed.
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