[Verse 1 – Male] Draw the fence around the turbine, call the fence a zone, the wire that crosses over is a conduit, not alone. Security levels, zero climbing up to four, how hard the wall must be before the wolf gets through the door. [Verse 2 – Female] NERC CIP watches over the grid from coast to coast, TSA holds the pipeline to a directive like a ghost. Canadian Centre for Cyber tells the utilities plain: patch what you can, watch what you can't, and never trust the chain. [Chorus – Both] Zones and conduits, levels standing guard, IEC sixty-two four four three, the standard's not that hard — NERC, TSA, the Centre keep the score, say it with me: segment, monitor, restore. [Verse 3 – Male] Stuxnet crept through a thumb drive, centrifuge unaware, spun the rotors past their limits, whispered numbers in the air. The fix was air-gapped diligence, and code that's cryptic-signed — a single flash drive toppled what the engineers designed. [Verse 3B – Female] Ukraine, twenty fifteen, phishing opened up the door, breakers tripped by human hands through a hijacked SCADA floor. Industroyer struck twenty-sixteen, protocol as blade — role-based access, logged and locked, could've stopped the raid. [Verse 4 – Male] TRITON reached for safety systems, the last wall in the plant, Colonial's billing servers fell, and fuel became a chant. Segregate the business network from the valves that keep you fed — that's the lesson written after Colonial went to bed. [Verse 4B – Female] Industroyer2, twenty twenty-two, came back for one more round, same old breakers, same old grid, on Ukrainian ground. Detection is the difference between a blackout and a save — watch the wire, know the pattern, that's the standard, that's the stave. [Chorus – Both] Zones and conduits, levels standing guard, IEC sixty-two four four three, the standard's not that hard — NERC, TSA, the Centre keep the score, say it with me: segment, monitor, restore. [Bridge – Spoken/Sung, Female then Male] In the lab tonight, we listen, we don't touch — Zeek is watching Modbus, parsing every clutch. An unauthorized write function, a coil flipped somewhere — write the rule, raise the alarm, catch the ghost in the air. [Bridge – Male] Countdown to Zero Day, Zetter's warning in the wire, Sandworm crawling networks, Greenberg's slow-burn fire. Read them both like scripture, learn the names, remember why — the grid don't fall from thunder, it falls from a phishing lie. [Final Chorus – Both] Zones and conduits, levels standing guard, sixty-two four four three, memorize the card — Stuxnet, Ukraine, TRITON, Colonial's dark day, Industroyer twice — watch the wire, don't look away. [Outro – Spoken, Female] Segment. Monitor. Restore. That's the whole curriculum, walking through the door.
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