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By Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Philip Reitinger
May 10, 2021
Every time there’s another massive cybersecurity breach, which like SolarWinds finds its roots in a security issue at a third party, policymakers and security experts ask, “Where do we go from here?”
The private sector and the federal government haven’t figured out how agencies can best address risks posed by their vendors. The problem is especially acute for small- and mid-sized organizations. Individually engaging, evaluating and auditing every vendor, from custodial services to cloud providers, is cost prohibitive and unrealistic for the vast majority.
Today, those of us in cybersecurity are just like medieval barbers doing our best not to kill our patients. We struggle to know if an organization was breached due to poor security or if it was doing everything right and was simply overpowered by a nation-state.
By Erica Thomas, managing editor
Fear of fuel shortages and higher gas prices are causing panic in some parts of the southeast after a cybersecurity attack on Colonial Pipeline.
The pipeline, which carries gas from Texas to New Jersey, was shut down after the attack.
On Monday, Colonial Pipeline announced that Line 4, from Greensboro, NC to Woodbine, MD, was operating under manual control.
“As previously announced, while our main lines continue to be offline, some smaller lateral lines between terminals and delivery points are now operational as well,” Colonial released in a statement. “We continue to evaluate product inventory in storage tanks at our facilities and others along our system and are working with our shippers to move this product to terminals for local delivery.”
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