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TSA To Add Tabletop Exercises As A Requirement In Cybersecurity Directives

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, June 2nd, 2023

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TSA To Add Tabletop Exercises As A Requirement In Cybersecurity Directives

Transportation Security Administration Administrator David Pekoske. Photo: TSA

As cybersecurity directives expire for covered infrastructures, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) plans to reissue new directives with the added requirement that affected entities perform tabletop exercises to test their cyber incident response plans, David Pekoske, the agency’s chief, said last week. The exercises will go beyond just a specific company to include other stakeholders, he said last Thursday as part of a cybersecurity panel hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. TSA already did a tabletop exercise…

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