by Enrique Hernandez | May 13, 2026 | AWIA Compliance & Water Infrastructure
The utility manager at a mid-size water district in the Southeast asked us a straightforward question last year: “Who actually has access to my SCADA system?” The question came after a peer utility experienced a cybersecurity incident traced to a former...
by Enrique Hernandez | May 8, 2026 | AWIA Compliance & Water Infrastructure
A regional water utility in the Southeast ran its first cyber-focused tabletop exercise last year. The Emergency Response Plan, updated on schedule for AWIA compliance, sat on the shared drive looking thorough. Twelve utility staff and three people from the supporting...
by Enrique Hernandez | May 1, 2026 | AWIA Compliance & Water Infrastructure
A civil engineering firm we work with had a project records scare last year. A senior engineer, working from home on a Friday afternoon, accidentally synced a personal Dropbox folder to the firm’s shared drive. A few hundred gigabytes of active project...
by Enrique Hernandez | Apr 23, 2026 | AWIA Compliance & Water Infrastructure
If your next AWIA Risk and Resilience Assessment reads like a review of pump stations, treatment plants, and chemical storage, it is already missing a major piece of what the EPA expects to see. The America’s Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) of 2018 requires...
by Enrique Hernandez | Apr 3, 2026 | AWIA Compliance & Water Infrastructure
It’s 2 a.m. A main transmission line just failed. Raw water is flooding a residential neighborhood. Your emergency response plan says to notify the state agency within two hours, coordinate with your operations team, and activate backup systems. But your phone...
by Enrique Hernandez | Mar 25, 2026 | AWIA Compliance & Water Infrastructure
Your next AWIA Risk and Resilience Assessment is coming. If your IT systems aren’t part of the conversation, you have a problem. The America’s Water Infrastructure Act requires community water systems serving more than 3,300 people to complete Risk and...
