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TSA issues second cybersecurity directive for pipeline companies

July 21, 2021

Via: CSO
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The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) yesterday announced a second security directive that requires owners and operators of TSA-designated critical pipelines to implement cybersecurity measures that help protect against malicious digital incidents. This directive is a more expansive follow-up to an initial pipeline security directive issued on May 27, roughly two weeks after the highly disruptive ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline.

The initial directive required pipeline companies to report cybersecurity incidents to DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

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