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Supply Chain Attacks: When Your Supplier’s Breach Becomes Your Production Shutdown
A mid-sized injection molding manufacturer had a strange week last spring. Orders from their largest customer were suddenly erratic. Delivery schedules kept changing. Communications from the customer's buyer went silent for two days. Then the customer called and asked...
Access Control Maturity: From Passwords to Zero Trust for Mid-Market Businesses
A firm principal at a civil engineering practice asked a direct question at the end of a client meeting last year: "Zero trust keeps coming up. What does it actually mean, and do I need it, or is it something only Fortune 500 companies should care about?" Fair...
Moving Engineering Data to the Cloud: AWIA Compliance Considerations for Civil Firms
A civil engineering firm we work with made the decision last year to move their project collaboration platform from an aging on-premises SharePoint deployment to Microsoft 365. The business case was straightforward: better mobile access for field engineers, better...
EDR on the Factory Floor: Endpoint Protection Without Breaking Production
A packaging manufacturer we know rolled out EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response, the modern replacement for traditional antivirus) across their corporate environment without incident. Encouraged by the result, their IT team deployed the same agent, with the same...
Managing Contractors With Access to Utility SCADA Systems
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 integrator's...
CMMC 2.0 Level 2 for Defense Manufacturers: What Level 2 Actually Requires
If your manufacturing firm supplies the Department of Defense and you handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI, the category of sensitive but unclassified data that the federal government needs to protect), you are on the path to CMMC 2.0 Level 2 certification...
Tabletop Exercises for Water Utility Incident Response: What Actually Works
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...
Cyber Insurance Underwriting: What Insurers Want Before They’ll Quote You
A manufacturing client of ours tried to renew their cyber insurance policy last spring. They had held coverage with the same carrier for six years, never filed a claim, and expected renewal to be routine. Instead, the carrier sent back a 14-page questionnaire,...
When Your MES Integrator Is the Attack Vector: Getting Control of Vendor Remote Access
A mid-size food processor we know of had a ransomware event last year that took three days of production offline. The root cause analysis identified the initial access vector pretty quickly. An engineer at their MES (Manufacturing Execution System) integrator had a...
Protecting Your Engineering As-Builts and Project Records: Document Management for Civil Firms
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 documents,...