The water sector faces a unique set of pressures, such as geographically dispersed assets, legacy Operational Technology that predates the internet, and a regulator (the Drinking Water Inspectorate or DWI) that is increasingly focused on evidence over assertion.

If you spend any amount of time around operational technology environments, you start to hear the same things repeatedly. The problem is that many of these statements aren’t quite true, or they’re only true in very specific circumstances, and over time they’ve been stretched into almost fact, facts that people stop questioning. That’s where a lot of trouble starts. 

Cyber security is awash with new solutions. To meet the changing threats to networked systems, new and innovative technologies are constantly being developed. It’s tempting to want to keep up to date through new kit. But there are challenges to new deployments…