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fathermarz
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About fathermarz
Critical Infrastructure advocate, OT evangelist, and software supply chain veteran interested in helping keep the water running, and electricity flowing wherever you are.
marcello @ cabreza dot com
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Comment #49158923
I believe the comment was to say you can not create a join for data that does not exist. Access to financial records is trivial, but there is likely no such comparable record that …
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Comment #49158850
> Top down regulation drives the systematic change, just like it did with the banking sector. Banking is resourced well enough to absorb that regulation and stand up a compliance t…
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Comment #49148793
Yes there are pieces of what you are saying that make sense theoretically. But what I mean by a silver bullet, is it is a systemic change that needs to happen in a bigger swing tha…
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Comment #49144922
Ouch. You just caused a major outage for . Either you costed your company millions of dollars or you killed someone. OT does not equal IT
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Comment #49140274
National Security has always been a federal government responsibility yes. But what does that fundamentally mean for boots on the ground? NSA doesn’t do IT for the DoD/W, DHS doesn…
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Comment #49139899
What’s the penalty you would impose on a rural water system that has under 10 employees that services thousands of people for water and/or wastewater? What does that audit look lik…
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Comment #49139714
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/end-complacency-i-can-hope-an... I much prefer the non-vendor perspective on this. Andy Krapf, co-chair of the Water ISAC, has a great breakdown abou…
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Comment #49139617
Well I think it speaks to the age of the equipment they are speaking of in the industrial sector. How do you lockdown something that may have not been taken offline for decades bec…
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Comment #49139588
I will repeat a comment from below. There are over 150k water utilities alone in the US. Passing the buck to the Federal Government is not understanding the problem.
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Comment #49139584
What industry? Very relevant.
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Comment #49139559
There are over 150k water utilities alone in the US. Passing the buck to the Federal Government is not understanding the problem.
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Comment #49139539
“Run your security patches” is easier said than done in the case of OT and it’s actually an issue that is further upstream than this. Policies, procedures, culture, and resources t…
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Comment #49139502
What policies do y’all have in place for this? Is there a program in place or the beginnings of one at least?
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Comment #49139476
Not IT malpractice and this where the industry diverges. IT folks usually don’t work on or understand these systems. Which is one of MANY problems OT faces. IT best practices don’t…
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Comment #49093784
I really dislike the mention of AI in this article. Does it help expedite things? Maybe. Is it making attacks more sophisticated? The evidence and guidance tell us that these actor…
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Comment #49053057
Recently poked around the job market to see what I qualify for in this day and age. Working as a solo builder in my org I would say that I have done enough in the last 18 months to…
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Comment #49051423
Good to know thanks for the clarification
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Comment #49051375
I know web designers that are getting good ol’ local business requests that are now one shotting the sites they used to spend a considerable amount of time on. So I think that’s so…
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Comment #49047385
And in 5,000 years, they will say. “They must have worshipped this star to create such a monument around it, showing how connected to the stars this ancient civilization was”
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Comment #49016935
The most upsetting part to me, is that these labs are in pure cognitive dissonance mode while virtue signalling. We are the virtuous ones that need to make the safest model for hum…
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Comment #48974323
The website on mobile is constantly jumping around so I literally can’t read the copy before the height changes and goes below the fold. Also, use cases? I’m a little lost after na…
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Comment #48964217
> Service Misuse. You acknowledge that without the written consent of us and/or the relevant rights holders, (i)you have no authority to use Kimi and the content generated by Kimi …
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Comment #48961756
Terms of use are very broad and not friendly for most things. Can’t use for commercial purposes. Can’t opt out of training. Data retained.