Biden Plans New Security Rules for Hospitals, Water Sector, Medical Devices, Warning Systems
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Anne Neuberger, the president’s deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, said the administration would extend the kind of cybersecurity rules like the ones the Biden administration has written for critical pipeline operators to hospitals, medical devices, the water sector, and public warning systems.
The administration is also looking at other sectors, such as manufacturing or information technology, where it needs congressional help to write mandatory minimum cybersecurity standards. These new rules stem from the paradigm shift of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack last summer.
Neuberger said the administration didn’t like the idea that “you could have a major gas provider serving the entire East Coast, and the Transportation Security Administration does not have in place a standard for what …
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