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State audit warns drinking-water systems are vulnerable to cyberattacks; committee refers cybersecurity audit to interim committees
Summary
Auditors told the Legislative Audit Committee that many community water systems lack incident-response plans and governance attention to cybersecurity; the audit cited a 2023 Utah ransomware event and recommended requiring systems to adopt cyber best practices; the legislature referred the matter to interim committees for review.
Auditors presented a performance audit examining cybersecurity for drinking-water systems and said operational-technology (OT) devices that monitor pumps, valves and chemical dosing create exploitable vulnerabilities.
The audit team cited a 2023 Utah municipal ransomware incident that locked operators out of control systems and required weeks of manual operation and equipment replacement, and a Florida breach where attackers changed sodium…
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