Running Out Of Cyber Gas The Colonial Pipeline cyber “hostage” fiasco is the latest in an ever-escalating set of cyberspace problems for the new Biden Administration. With a still forming team trying to navigate the complex Federal cyber bureaucracy - and a business sector not able to fulfill its claim of taking care of itself - this kind of event only increases the urgency of what is now becoming the definition of a managerial “wicked problem” - the people causing the problem are trying to solve the problem. The players and vulnerabilities are all too familiar – even pointed out in the U.S.’s recent Annual Intelligence Threat Assessment. First, the attacks appear to be coming from Eastern Europe and/or Russia. So far, publicly, it seems like a very well organized, nearly corporate group of hackers who claim to be Robin Hoods hit Colonial – robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, they say. Nice public relations effort, but hardly comforting to the companies who are victims.