Forget poisoned water, a cyberattack’s real threat to Gauteng is empty reservoirs
Worst-case scenario if Rand Water had a deeper cyberattack Anna Collard, SVP, content strategist, and CISO advisor at KnowBe4, said the scenario most people imagine when they think of a water utility being hacked is actually the hardest for attackers to pull off.
Cybersecurity experts said this week that the greatest danger posed by a cyberattack on a utility like Rand Water is not contaminated drinking water, but the loss of pressure and control across a gravity-fed network serving millions of people.
The utility said its treatment processes and quality control systems had continued to operate normally throughout the disruption, and that regular monitoring remained in place to ensure compliance with SANS 241 drinking water standards.
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