The oil and gas industry and some Republican leaders are resisting new calls for mandated cybersecurity standards for pipelines in the wake of the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline.
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BROUILLETTE VERSUS CYBERSECURITY STANDARDS: Trump administration Energy Secretary
Dan Brouillette says requiring pipelines to follow certain cybersecurity standards is not the answer to preventing future attacks like the one on the Colonial Pipeline.
“I am not sure another layer of regulation is going to fix the issue,” Brouillette told Josh in an interview this morning. “There are easier things we can do.”
Bruce Walker, a senior Energy Department official focused on cybersecurity in the Trump administration, agrees with Brouillette that mandating pipeline operators meet a certain standard won’t prevent nation state actors from evading the protections.
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