U.S. Requires Critical Pipelines To Beef Up Cybersecurity

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued on Tuesday a new security directive requiring owners and operators of critical oil and gas pipelines to implement additional protection against cyberattacks. This is the second Security Directive that DHS’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced since the ransomware attack on a major fuel pipeline two months ago. In early May, a ransomware attack on the computer network of the key fuel pipeline for the U.S. East Coast, Colonial Pipeline, forced the pipeline operator to…