Government-run water systems and other critical infrastructure are still at risk from state-sponsored actors, according to a renewed warning from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
CISA released an advisory last week on the matter of days after a small water treatment facility in Kansas was forced into manual operations after a cyber attack.
I feel like this is just the latest in a string of warnings that we’ve been talking about since the Colonial Pipeline attack in 2021 that forced a gasoline shortage across the Eastern U.S. We’ve been discussing the importance of defending critical infrastructure for years now, so what’s new now?
For starters, it seems like the frequency of these attacks seems to be on the rise. And many efforts to regulate cybersecurity policies and procedures in the industry have thus far fallen flat.
The White House is reportedly working on rolling out a second wave of cybersecurity recommendations for water treatment facilities on the back of the attack in Kansas that affected the public water supply of 11,000 people. Although the cyber attack did not actually affect anyone from getting their water, it does raise the question of how much of an issue this could be if a state-sponsored actor were to target a facility i ..
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