North Georgia Municipal Water Cybersecurity Pilot
Turn a national warning into practical local action.
Water and wastewater utilities are being actively targeted. This focused pilot is designed to help North Georgia municipalities understand their operational technology exposure, identify practical priorities, and leave with a defensible path forward.
Why This Matters Now
The threat is real. The response should be calm, local, and operational.
The FBI and EPA reported malicious cyber activity targeting water and wastewater operational technology, including internet-facing programmable logic controllers. The agencies said utilities in at least seven states reported incidents and that some activity degraded water operations.
The lesson is not that every utility needs a large cybersecurity program overnight. It is that every utility should understand what is exposed, what could affect operations, and which practical safeguards deserve attention first.
This pilot turns current national concern into a focused local improvement effort without forcing a municipality into a technology purchase or an oversized consulting engagement.
Supporting Intelligence
Better decisions begin with better context.
The North Georgia Water Cybersecurity Pilot combines practical industrial cybersecurity assessment experience with curated operational threat intelligence.
Signal Ridge Group, LLC focuses on understanding operational environments, assessing cybersecurity maturity, and building practical improvement roadmaps.
Cited Relevance provides continuously researched industrial cybersecurity intelligence, helping identify emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and operational trends affecting critical infrastructure.
Together, the assessment is informed by both the environment in front of us and the broader threat landscape developing across the industry.
Signal Ridge Group, LLC
Industrial cybersecurity assessments, roadmaps, and operational guidance.
Cited Relevance
Industrial cybersecurity research and operational threat intelligence.
Better informed decisions
Local operational context strengthened by current industrial threat awareness.
Supported by Industrial Threat Intelligence
The pilot incorporates current industrial cybersecurity research and threat intelligence from Cited Relevance, helping ensure recommendations reflect both the local operational environment and the evolving industrial threat landscape.
The Pilot
A focused cybersecurity readiness engagement for North Georgia water utilities.
Operational Discovery
Understand the utility's treatment, distribution, wastewater, remote access, communications, and control-system context before assigning priorities.
Exposure & Safeguard Review
Review internet exposure, remote connectivity, authentication, backups, recovery, asset visibility, and other controls that directly affect operational resilience.
Practical Assessment
Use a right-sized assessment aligned to recognized water-sector guidance, NIST CSF 2.0, IEC 62443 principles, or the municipality's preferred structure. Current industrial threat intelligence is incorporated to add context for emerging risks and operational priorities.
Actionable Roadmap
Convert findings into prioritized initiatives with ownership, sequence, dependencies, and practical next steps rather than leaving a list of disconnected gaps.
What the Utility Receives
Enough structure to act without creating unnecessary overhead.
The pilot is intended to establish a credible starting point and a practical improvement path. It is not a penetration test, a compliance certification, a monitoring service, or a product sale.
Current-State Brief
A concise view of operational context, material exposures, existing strengths, and priority concerns.
Improvement Roadmap
Prioritized actions organized around consequence, feasibility, dependency, ownership, and timing.
Leadership Readout
A practical discussion of what matters now, what can wait, and how to move forward without disrupting operations.
Participation is proactive and does not imply that a utility has experienced a known compromise. The pilot is designed to help municipalities evaluate readiness before an incident forces the issue.
Who the Pilot Fits
Designed for municipalities that need clarity more than another technology pitch.
Drinking Water
Community water systems operating treatment, wells, pumping, storage, and distribution infrastructure.
Wastewater
Municipal wastewater systems operating collection, lift stations, treatment, discharge, and supporting control systems.
Combined Utilities
Municipal departments responsible for both drinking water and wastewater operations across multiple facilities.
Official Water-Sector Resources
Built around practical guidance already available to utilities.
Operational Assessment
Signal Ridge Group, LLC
Industrial Threat Intelligence
Cited Relevance
Operational Assessment + Industrial Threat Intelligence
North Georgia utilities should not have to wait for an incident to understand their exposure.
Signal Ridge Group, LLC is forming a focused municipal pilot for drinking water and wastewater utilities in North Georgia. The first conversation is simply about the environment, current concerns, and whether the pilot is a practical fit.
Discuss the pilot