Rail Cybersecurity Is a Complex Environment
Rail remains one of the most popular modes of transportation. In a typical year, US freight railroads move around 1.6 billion tons across nearly 140,000 miles of track. US citizens traveled more than 12.5 billion kilometers by rail in 2021. Thousands of railways — from national and regional networks to intra-city light rails — have…
TSA Updates Pipeline Cybersecurity Requirements
The security directive for pipeline owners and operators — released following the disruptive cyberattack that hit Colonial Pipeline in 2021 — requires them to implement measures to improve their defenses against cyberattacks. The TSA updated the requirements in July 2022 to offer more flexibility in achieving the outlined goals. Exactly one year later, the agency…
Pipeline Operators Are Headed in the Right Direction, With or Without TSA’s Updated Security Directives
Following the Colonial Pipeline hack — one of the highest-profile attacks against US critical infrastructure to date — in 2021, the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) released two unprecedented Security Directives, requiring owners and operators of gas and liquid pipelines to implement strict new protections against cyberattacks. On July 21, the TSA…
TSA Requires Rail and Airports to Strengthen Cybersecurity
The Biden administration said the requirements made public Thursday are part of a broader effort at protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure from ongoing cyberespionage and a surge in disruptive ransomware attacks. “These new cybersecurity requirements and recommendations will help keep the traveling public safe,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement. He had…
