The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently announced that it has updated and reissued cybersecurity requirements for oil and natural gas pipeline owners and operators.
According to TSA.gov, the update is meant to boost cybersecurity resilience for the country's vital pipelines against evolving cybersecurity threats and increase national security.
“TSA is committed to keeping the nation’s transportation systems safe from cyberattacks," TSA Administrator David Pekoske said, according to TSA.gov. "This revised security directive follows significant collaboration between TSA and the oil and natural gas pipeline industry. The directive establishes a new model that accommodates variance in systems and operations to meet our security requirements. We recognize that every company is different, and we have developed an approach that accommodates that fact, supported by continuous monitoring and auditing to assess achievement of the needed cybersecurity outcomes. We will continue working with our partners in the transportation sector to increase cybersecurity resilience throughout the system and acknowledge the significant work over the past year to protect this critical infrastructure.”
TSA had issued security directives ordering pipeline owners and operators to implement urgently needed cybersecurity measures following a serious ransomware attack on a major pipeline in May 2021.
This action will extend cybersecurity requirements for another year.
