Special Report: Colonial Pipeline Crisis Winds Down as White House Releases Comprehensive Executive Order
Wide-ranging, ambitious EO proposes creation of NTSB-like Cybersecurity Safety Review Board, highlights zero-trust architecture, mandates 2FA, creates baseline software security standards, more
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The most destructive cyber incident to ever occur in the United States, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, is winding down, with the company starting pipeline operations yesterday at 5 pm. Colonial said that “some markets served by Colonial Pipeline may experience, or continue to experience, intermittent service interruptions during the start-up period.” It will conduct “a comprehensive series of pipeline safety assessments in compliance with all Federal pipeline safety requirements.”
Those assessments can’t come soon enough given that Frank Bajak of the Associated Press discovered an outside audit of the company conducted three years ago by the Institute for Information Governance that found atrocious” information management practices and “a patchwork of poorly connected and secured systems” at the U.S. pipeline giant.
Proving the adage that the time to strike is when the iron is hot, the…
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