@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange
Post #4002991
2026-07-22 02:58 UTC
@Kugg@infosec.exchange cost to upgrade both purely financial and logistical and downtime / safety related. It’s very very expensive to do an upgrade certified safe and authorised by the OEM, if they are even in business anymore. You wait until you have millions of extra dollars.
Controls are architectural defence in depth and monitoring
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@wollman@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 03:23
@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange @Kugg@infosec.exchange I'm not in this field, but I do regularly read presentations by our electric power industry asking for approval to spend millions of dollars on replacing equipment in their substations, and all too often one of the bullet points is "OEM no longer supports this product". I guess that sounds better than "OEM sold the business to their largest competitor twenty years ago".