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A satellite view of Oldsmar's water reclamation facility (Photo: Google Maps) As the investigation into the hacking of a water treatment facility in Florida continues, cybersecurity experts say the incident points to the urgent need to enhance operational technology security. "The lesson to be learned here is that public sector organizations that provide critical services - which are largely unregulated for security - need some scrutiny on their IT and OT security," says Mike Hamilton, the CISO of CI Security, who formerly worked at the Department of Homeland Security. The Friday attack again...

The Biden administration also proposes spending $1 billion for several other cybersecurity and IT initiatives, including: $200 million for the rapid hiring of security experts to work for the Office of the U.S. Chief Information Security Officer as well as the Digital Service unit in the White House; $300 million to fund additional IT projects within the GSA; $690 million for a CISA project designed to improve monitoring and incident response across federal agencies. The proposed new spending on security and IT improvements is in direct response to the SolarWinds supply chain hack, which has ...