Utility Works I
First structured lab in Loginward. Where OT security begins.
Utility Works I is the entry lab for the Loginward zone — the first structured industrial environment new operators encounter in the World of Labshock.
Zone: Loginward.
The lab models a small utility control station with a single PLC managing water flow regulation, a SCADA interface for monitoring, an Engineering Workstation for logic modification, and a network IDS capturing all traffic. No external connections. No IT network. Just the control system.
Users complete guided objectives: read process values from the SCADA interface, identify active assets on the OT network, observe baseline Modbus traffic, and trigger a log event using the Engineering Workstation. Utility Works I establishes the vocabulary and observation skills required for every lab that follows.
Loginward was not built to be explored. It was built to run — water pressure, flow valves, distribution timing. The operators who maintain it have been doing so for decades without incident. Not because the system is secure. Because no one has looked at it closely enough.
Foreman Derek oversees the utility operations of Loginward. His role is not to teach, but to observe who understands the system and who does not.
The PLC is running. The SCADA panel is live. The network is producing traffic that nobody has ever analyzed. Start with what you can see.
"New face in the works, huh? Good. The system always needs another pair of sharp eyes."