Resilience Through Cyber-Informed Engineering: An Engineering and Operations Approach to Cybersecurity

Water and wastewater systems are increasingly reliant on digital technologies--yet many remain vulnerable to cyber threats that could disrupt essential services. Cyber-Informed Engineering (CIE) empowers utility leaders, engineers, operators, and planners to design and operate infrastructure that anticipates and withstands these risks. By integrating cybersecurity into core engineering practices, CIE strengthens resilience, protects public health, and ensures continuity of service for communities across the "One Water" sector.

This book is organized generally in the way the authors developed an understanding of this area of practice:

Chapter 1--First, we need to understand how we got where we are from a cybersecurity risk to critical infrastructure perspective.

Chapter 2--Why and how is CIE relevant to the water sector, and why is it different from how we have addressed cybersecurity?

Chapter 3--To understand the importance of and be ready for CIE, we need to know what "A Day Without SCADA" would look like and its effect on the sector.

Chapter 4--Many in the water sector have been practicing the concepts of CCE/Critical Function Assurance (CFA) for years. But how do we maintain these practices as technology continues to grow and evolve in the sector?

Chapter 5--CIE is best understood via examples. This chapter provides several real-world case studies to help.

Chapter 6--Now that you understand CCE/CIE/CFA, what do we practically do now? Technology is continuously changing. How can CCE/CIE/CFA help us address emerging technology challenges?