Security News > 2021 > February > Misplaced expectations securing water treatment systems

The cyber attack that tried to poison the drinking water system in Oldsmar, Florida is similar to last year's attack on small water systems in Israel.

Both attacks tried to tamper with water treatment facilities to produce drinking water containing dangerous amounts of chemicals.

A high-level comment from one of the investigators of the Israeli attack is telling: "These attacks got as close as they did to succeeding for one reason - the targeted utilities did not apply the [Israeli] government recommended security controls."

These systems cannot wait for the government to protect them - no government is able to protect individual sites against these kinds of attacks.

Small water systems must act now to protect themselves and their consumers.

At Waterfall, we work with both Israel's and the world's most secure industrial sites - everything from small water systems to nuclear generators.

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