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Cyber

TSA Issues Second Cybersecurity Directive For Pipeline Industry

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, July 20th, 2021

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TSA Issues Second Cybersecurity Directive For Pipeline Industry

Colonial Pipeline system map. Image: Colonial Pipeline

Nearly two months after issuing its first directive aimed at shoring up the cybersecurity of the nation’s pipeline industry, the Transportation Security Administration on Tuesday issued another security directive, this time requiring owners and operators of pipelines to take specific measures to protect against cyber threats. The Department of Homeland Security said its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has advised TSA on cyber threats to the pipeline industry and provided technical countermeasures to prevent those threats. The second directive “requires…

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