10/01/2026
The Systems That Run the City Were Not Built for the Internet
Water treatment controls. Building management systems. Traffic signals. Standby generators. Most of this equipment was designed decades ago to run in isolation, and most of it now sits on a network somebody connected later.
That gap between how the equipment was designed and how it is actually wired is where operational technology risk lives. It rarely shows up in a standard IT assessment, because the standard assessment does not speak to the controller.
Level Nine Group works specifically in that space. ICS and OT security for critical infrastructure, including pe*******on testing that accounts for equipment you cannot simply take offline, architecture and design review, and regulatory work for organizations answering to sector rules rather than general IT guidance. Utilities and water, transportation, healthcare and medical devices, communications.
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. A reasonable place for an agency to start is one question: who owns the security of the systems that are not computers?
As a Level Nine Group partner, Compulink Technologies helps agencies across the Tri-State area assess and secure operational technology, with procurement streamlined through established contract vehicles.
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