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Biden Adds Water Sector To Cybersecurity Initiative

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, January 27th, 2022

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Biden Adds Water Sector To Cybersecurity Initiative

The White House on Thursday expanded an existing initiative to strengthen the cybersecurity of key critical infrastructure sectors, adding the water sector to the list to better secure against attacks on technologies that control the operational processes at water utilities nationwide. The Biden administration last year kicked-off the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Initiative with the electric and natural gas subsectors, working with owners and operators in these spaces to improve situational awareness of cyber threats in real-time and to…

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