The Department of Homeland Security implemented cybersecurity requirements for pipelines Thursday following the Colonial Pipeline hack that led to widespread fuel shortages and panic throughout the United States.
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The directive now mandates incident reporting and reviews described in the administration’s voluntary guidelines for the sector.
Working with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration issued a directive requiring immediate and longer term actions by owners and operators of the nation’s pipelines.
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“This Congress, the House Foreign Affairs Committee aims to prioritize efforts to reassert American leadership on a variety of issues,” Meeks said. “I can t think of any issue that is more timely than ensuring American leadership is prepared to confront the growing national security challenge in cyberspace.”
“This feels long overdue,” McCaul said on the House floor. “To me, it is the last piece in terms of our cyber role in the federal government, now taking it to the international stage with our allies around the world.”
Langevin said in a statement released following the Tuesday vote that he hoped the Senate would “act with the same speed” as the House did in passing the legislation.
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