Book: “Water Supply Systems Security”

“Water Supply Systems Security” by Larry Mays (editor) is actually a collection of articles covering a wide area of the security issue. This book deals with vulnerability assessment, cyber threats, early warning systems, security hardware, reliability, remote monitoring and more. About half of the 18 chapters in the book were written by people from the academia while the other by engineers and private consultants. This makes the book a nice blend between theory and practice.

Two chapters were of special interest. The first, ג€œCyber Threats and IT/SCADA Systems Vulnerabilityג€, gives an overview of water utilities computer systems and their vulnerability, typical attack scenarios and methods for mitigating such attacks. The second, ג€œReconstruction Historical Contamination Eventsג€, describes historical events and the way these events were modeled.

For more information see this book’s listing at Amazon.com