For IT staff who have been handed the SCADA network. How control systems differ from corporate IT, where the security risk sits, and how to fault-find safely.
IT teams increasingly inherit the SCADA network without ever having been trained on it, and the instincts that serve you on corporate IT can take a treatment plant offline. This covers what is genuinely different about operational technology: the architecture, where the real security exposure sits, and how to troubleshoot without interrupting a live process.
SCADA components and their role in water operations.
Maps the architecture from field devices to control room.
Explains where IT practice meets operational technology needs.
Applies security controls suited to control environments.
Diagnoses communication and system faults methodically.
Frames IT support within the demands of treatment-plant control.
IT staff, network administrators, and system support teams serving water and wastewater utilities.
An IT or networking background. No process control experience assumed.
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