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Water and Wastewater Incident Guide

Source: CISA
Release Date: January 18, 2024

 

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Environmental Protection Agency has released a joint Incident Response Guide for the Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector in the USA. The guide includes contributions from over 25 WWS Sector organizations spanning private industry, nonprofit, and government entities and might be of interest to Public and Private Water Service providers in the EU.

 


 

Report Summary

A compromise or failure of a Water and Wastewater (WWS) Sector organization could cause cascading impacts throughout the Sector and other critical infrastructure sectors.

 

Cyber threat actors are aware of—and deliberately target—single points of failure. 


There are many aspects of the large and complex WWS Sector that pose challenges to raising cyber resilience sector wide:

 

  • Governance and regulation involve a mix of federal and state, local, tribal, and territorial authorities.
  • Cybersecurity maturity levels across the sector are disparate.
  • Often, WWS Sector utilities must prioritize limited resources toward the functionality of their water systems over cybersecurity.
  • Universal solutions to cyber challenges in a diverse, target-rich, and resource-poor environment are unfeasible.


To provide meaningful cybersecurity support to the WWS Sector that can help with these challenges, CISA—in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as well as the federal government and WWS Sector partners listed in this guide’s acknowledgement section—has created this joint Incident Response Guide (IRG) for the WWS Sector.


This joint IRG provides WWS Sector owners and operators in USA, information about the federal roles, resources, and responsibilities for each stage of the cyber incident response (IR) lifecycle. Sector owners and operators can use this information to augment their respective IR plans and procedures. 

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Incident Response Guide for the Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector.

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