Government auditors say federal agencies haven’t met mandated security steps for operational technology, which hackers targeted in water sector attacks this summer.

Here’s what it would take: stronger defenses for large utilities, hands-on help for smaller systems and federal support to make both happen.

Internet-exposed tech, PLCs, outside integrators and inside protections are all factors the water sector’s information sharing and analysis center is watching.

A key House Democrat and his bipartisan sponsors want to see a $100 million DHS pilot to help critical infrastructure owners and operators — separate from another…

SpyCloud’s study found 1,787 of the approximately 10,000 U.S. organizations had it, including one infected device that saved logins for 167 utility metering tenants.

July’s intrusions reached water controllers that sat on a cellular link no city network scan would find. Naming an owner and paying for the fix are decisions…

The six-month program will be overseen by the Office of the National Cyber Director and Texas Cyber Command to “find out what works.”

Agency red-teamers got initial access to both organizations they tested, but one quickly isolated and shut down the attempts from going further.

It’s a follow-up to an indictment the Justice Department unsealed last week against people affiliated with the Mabna Institute.

The agencies said the hackers are taking aim at Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers in what could be a first.