Secure Data performed a fully onsite data recovery and assessment for Arkansas Nuclear One, adhering to strict cybersecurity protocols to protect the plant's sensitive computer control systems and maintain regulatory compliance.
Arkansas Nuclear One Generating Station, located in Russellville, Arkansas, is part of Entergy Arkansas — a power provider serving the state for over 100 years. The plant supports 728,000 customers across 63 counties and employs 3,500 people.
Nuclear power facilities use computer systems to monitor and control operations at their plants. All computer operations must follow strict cybersecurity regulations to protect them from external cyberattacks. Given the sensitive nature of the information stored at the site and the nature of these regulations, the Nuclear One facility required assessment and data recovery to be performed onsite with the strictest security protocols to ensure the integrity of their cybersecurity management control systems.
Secure Data Recovery Services dispatched one of its expert engineers to the Russellville plant with a certified clean bench to evaluate the failed SPARCstation drives onsite. The clean bench allows a technician to create a portable cleanroom environment using a laminar flow work cabinet. It uses HEPA-filtered air to ensure the work environment is particle-free and won't cause additional damage to internal drive components during diagnostic analysis and data recovery.
Our onsite specialist conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the failed workstation drive. This included a visual inspection for any sign of abnormalities as well as testing of PCB and power function, and an analysis of appropriate S.M.A.R.T attributes.
The recovery engineer was able to meet all the objectives required for Entergy's legacy system. The full contents of the failed drive, about 1 GB of data, was safely extracted to a compatible match.
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