The Trans Canada Keystone Pipeline. (shannonpatrick17 from Swanton, Nebraska, U.S.A., CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
The Transportation Security Administration, the Department of Homeland Security agency tasked with overseeing the security of oil and natural gas pipelines, put in place new pipeline cybersecurity requirements Wednesday morning.
The TSA order marks the first mandatory cybersecurity practices for pipelines, and what some expect will be the first of more standards that the government puts in place to regulate how critical infrastructure operators protect networks and systems.
“I’ve said for a while: when we started getting into areas where cyber began to manifest more clearly into the physical world, in people’s public health, their safety; when their direct lives were more affected, we would begin to see more push towards greater regulation,” said Michael Daniel, former White House cybersecurity coordinator and current president and CEO of the Cyber Threat Alliance industry threat sharing group.
The order contains three components. First, pipeline operators will be required to alert the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of all cybersecurity incidents. Second, they will need to ..
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