Water & Waste

Dutch drinking water companies fall under the Cyberbeveiligingswet (Cbw), the Dutch implementation of NIS2, because drinking water and waste water are listed in NIS2 Annex I. Organisations designated as critical entities also fall under the Critical Entities Resilience Act (Wwke), which also covers physical threats such as sabotage. For securing the OT environment, the ISA/IEC 62443 series is the common benchmark.

A water company mainly needs OT/ICS security specialists who can secure SCADA systems and treatment processes without putting availability at risk. Network security engineers for segmentation, NIS2 implementation coordinators and business continuity and crisis response experts are also important. Because much of the OT is old and cannot be patched, the focus is on segmentation, monitoring and the ability to recover.

MVPeople Group responds to every request within 4 hours and delivers introduction CVs for interim roles within 24 hours, often with a first profile within 4 hours. Candidates come from a network of more than 7,000 pre-screened cybersecurity professionals, including OT/ICS specialists and business continuity experts. MVPeople is NEN-4400-1 certified, WAADI registered and works DBA-proof.

Interim fits defined projects, such as a risk assessment after designation as a critical entity, a segmentation project or setting up an OT security programme. Permanent hiring fits day-to-day operation and monitoring of the process environment. A common approach is an interim specialist who lays the foundation and a permanent employee who embeds it afterwards. Through MVPermanent, permanent hiring typically takes 2 to 4 weeks.