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UK utility Severn Trent tests the waters with £4.8m for SCADA monitoring and management in the clouds

Terje

What Fing moron think that a SCADA system has anything to do in the cloud. any scada system for critical infrastructure such as water should be standalone and preferably air gapped.

I can just see the scenario play out in front of me, "innocent" worker with his digger cuts fiberoptic cable.

In the control room:

Dave: Hey Steve, did you lose contact with the scada system right now.

Steve: Yes, I lost contact with everything and we can no longer talk directly to the systems because the firewalls reject every connection not directly from the scada system...

What could possibly go wrong

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