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The First 72 Hours After a Ransomware Hit in Your Plant
Second shift comes on at your plant. Operators try to log into the MES and get kicked out. A few minutes later, someone sees an unfamiliar message on a server console. Within an hour, file shares are unreadable and the ERP is unresponsive. By the end of the shift,...
SCADA Network Segmentation for Water Utilities: What It Is and Why Your RRA Cares
In late 2023, federal agencies issued a joint advisory after Iranian-affiliated attackers exploited internet-exposed water utility control systems across multiple states. The CISA advisory on these intrusions noted that attackers reached Programmable Logic Controllers...
Unplanned Downtime: The IT-Side Drivers Most Plant Managers Miss
Your plant lost four hours of production last Tuesday. The equipment was fine. No operator made an error. No material was missing. The MES (Manufacturing Execution System, the software layer that tracks production orders and machine status) stopped talking to the ERP...
Cybersecurity in AWIA Risk and Resilience Assessments: What EPA Actually Expects
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 community...
Business Continuity Planning for Manufacturers: What Happens When Your IT Goes Down
It's 6:14 AM on a Tuesday. Your second shift just ended, and the morning crew is clocking in. Then your ERP system locks up. Nobody can pull work orders. The CNC machines that rely on network-connected job files sit idle. Your shipping team can't print BOLs or confirm...
Your Emergency Response Plan Probably Ignores the Systems You Need Most
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 system...
Your Factory Floor Just Joined Your Business Network. Here’s What That Means for Risk.
A mid-size plastics manufacturer in the Midwest connected their production line PLCs to the corporate network last year. The goal was simple: get real-time production data into their ERP system so operations could make faster decisions. It worked. For about four...
What Managed IT Services Actually Means (And Why Your Business Needs to Care)
Your server goes down at 2 PM on a Tuesday. Production stops. Your team sits idle. You call your IT guy, but he's busy with another client. By the time someone shows up, you've lost half a day of output and a shipment deadline. This is what reactive IT looks like. And...
Ransomware in Manufacturing: What a Production Shutdown Really Costs You
A single encrypted file server brings your production floor to a halt at 6 AM on a Monday. By the time your team figures out what happened, you've already lost a full shift of output. That's ransomware in manufacturing — and it's happening more often than most plant...
Your AWIA Risk and Resilience Assessment Has an IT Gap — Here’s How to Close It
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 Resilience...