What Happens When Your SCADA Server Buys The Farm?

By Christopher Little, Sales and Marketing, Trihedral

Uncomfortable questions to help you sleep better.

Scenario 1: It is 3 am and you are fast asleep at home in your bed. At your office across town, the server that monitors and controls your critical water and wastewater infrastructure goes offline. Maybe, the hard drive failed or the power supply died. Perhaps it just lost connection to the network. Regardless, all polling, logging, monitoring and alarming have ceased. What happens next?