Water Sector - Cybersecurity Training Session
Thu, Mar 20
|Cooley Law School
Join us for an in-person tabletop training scenario with Michigan's CISA representative to learn how to respond in real time to cybersecurity threats to your local drinking water system.
Time & Location
Mar 20, 2025, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Cooley Law School, 300 S Capital Ave Lansing, MI 48933
About the Event
The Tri-County Regional Planning Commission is hosting a training session with the Groundwater Management Board to help local drinking water systems be prepared for potential future cybersecurity threats and acts.
In 2024, the US Environmental Protection Agency issued a report stating that over 300 drinking water systems serving roughly 110 million people across the country were affected by vulnerabilities that could lead to service disruptions from a cyber-attack. In a digital age, the drinking water industry is learning to identify new risks and ways to further protect public health by supplying safe and reliable drinking water.
Hosted by Environmental Planner Lauren Schnoebelen and partnering with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, drinking water operators will undergo planning exercises on a wide range of threat scenarios. These scenarios will cover cybersecurity topics, such as phishing, insider threats, and ransomware. The goal of these exercises is for attendees to increase their organization’s…