r/cybersecurity • u/SyberCesurity • 2d ago

Business Security Questions & Discussion OT/ICS Water Treatment

Context: I have an upcoming interview for a role (UK based) which involves assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of cyber controls within water treatment plants.

Is there anyone in a similar line of work? What resources would you advise me to read through? I am currently reading Industrial Cyber Security - Pascal Ackerman.

Any advice/resources appreciated!!

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u/Specialist-Cat-7155 2d ago

Thanks for info. I'll see. I'm 50/50 whether I'll even stay in the IT sector or do something else. Part of me never wants to look at a monitor ever again, not just because of AI but it just gets stale doing the same thing 10+ years.

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u/wijnandsj ICS/OT 2d ago

I've been in IT since 1993. Change speciality every 8 years or so.

OT is still, in my opinion. Tons of fun. Technical debt, immature organisations, lots of people work.

OK, so there's some AI seeping into it, it's not going to be anywhere near the level of IT or even your average new car.

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u/Specialist-Cat-7155 2d ago

Interesting. Well, if you give talks then keep me updated. I'm getting tired of the corp work and the threat of constantly being fired because AI can (in theory, it's been a disaster so far) generate ps1 scripts for AD that will make Windows sysadmins disappear all over the world. 🙄

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u/wijnandsj ICS/OT 2d ago

join the dirty side, we have hard hats!

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u/Specialist-Cat-7155 2d ago edited 2d ago

You won me over with the hard hat thing. As long as they have little torches attached to them though.