Waterly Insights
Our musings on tech in water
A Technical Response from our CTO on the Recent Cybersecurity Attacks on Water Systems
A technical response from Waterly’s CTO on the recent cybersecurity attacks against water systems.
Is Your Water System’s Control Equipment Safe from the Open Internet?
Recent attacks on U.S. water systems succeeded because control equipment set up at remote sites could be reached directly from the open Internet. These are four questions you should consider sending to your integrator or IT department today.
SCADA Data and Water/Wastewater Compliance – Risks and Rewards
Why dealing with previous day, current day, and aligning operational, SCADA, and compliance lab data correctly can make your head hurt, but it is incredibly important.
How Giving & Receiving Effective Feedback Improves You
Today, we give and receive feedback very differently than we did a generation or two ago. We now use a lot of anonymous or semi-anonymous technology tools to give feedback when it used to be that you told someone to their face when you were disappointed or pleased with their behavior. Many (especially software) businesses fixate on…
My Spreadsheets Are Good Enough (But Are They Really?)
How many of us have lost countless hours meticulously crafting a spreadsheet to manage just one process? I cringe at the memory of endless Google searches and Help articles, desperately seeking the perfect formula, calculation, or formatting trick. When our masterpiece was finally complete, it was like admiring a sculpture by Michelangelo. We shared our creation with the operators, emphasizing how much time we spent on it and hoping they’d recognize their value. Yet, despite our best efforts, spreadsheets, like Excel or Google Sheets, have two glaring limitations…
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