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The top Democrats on the House and Senate energy committees have urged the Department of Homeland Security to assess cyber and physical protections for natural gas and oil pipelines following an audit that criticized the department’s approach to the issue. “The results of this assessment will help policymakers evaluate the security of our nation’s energy assets,” Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J. wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Wednesday. Operators of the nation’s 2.7 million miles of pipelines for oil, natural gas, and other hazardous liquids have grappled with cybersecurity risk as their infrastructure becomes more digitized. Those pipelines are a natural target for nation-state hackers, a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission official said in August, according E&E News. Cantwell and Pallone, Jr., said much more needs to be done to counter the threat. They were reacting to a Government Accountability Office audit that found […]
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Officials with responsibility for cybersecurity at government agencies are being pulled in opposite directions by competing priorities, a senior Transportation Security Administration official said Wednesday. “There’s two diametrically opposed opposed ideas every day when I go to work,” Paul Morris, the agency’s chief information security officer, said at the Verizon Future of Government Summit produced by […]
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