Because it’s way, way cheaper to pay one guy to sit in a room monitoring 50 pump stations remotely, than it is to pay 50 guys to sit in random pump stations 24/7 when they don’t need human intervention for months on end.
Why aren’t the networks properly air-gapped and protected? Read the first five words again.
Wastewater treatment is a rather complex process these days, with sensors all along the process line reporting data back to the main office. At a minimum it requires a local area network.
This is one of those things where we should be saying… “WHY THE HELL DOES OUR WATER INFRASTRUCTURE NEED TO BE ON THE INTERNET”
Because it’s way, way cheaper to pay one guy to sit in a room monitoring 50 pump stations remotely, than it is to pay 50 guys to sit in random pump stations 24/7 when they don’t need human intervention for months on end.
Why aren’t the networks properly air-gapped and protected? Read the first five words again.
Wastewater treatment is a rather complex process these days, with sensors all along the process line reporting data back to the main office. At a minimum it requires a local area network.
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