September 2026

Every SCADA modernisation project involves substantial modifications to a critical infrastructure system. While engineering and delivery teams are mainly focused on the system upgrade, meeting deadlines and managing vendors, cybersecurity can sometimes receive less attention during the transition. This is not a criticism of the teams involved. From our experience supporting SCADA modernisation projects, we…

  At Tier16, we sit across the table from operators who are all wrestling with the same underlying problem: keeping systems running safely, continuously and securely, on technology that was often designed and installed long before today’s threat environment existed. We tend to see both sides of this problem at once: the engineering reality of…