TSA Official: Feds Improved Cybersecurity Response Post-Colonial Pipeline
May 15, 2023
In the wake of the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, the US Transportation Security Agency — the agency that regulates pipelines as well as air travel, railways, highways, and mass transit systems — brought together the CEOs of more than two dozen critical pipeline operators for a top-secret briefing in the White House.
The TSA planned to hand down security directives to drive pipeline operators to enhance security, and they knew those companies’ CISOs would have to ask their CEOs for more resources and higher priority, David Pekoske, administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, told attendees at the Hack the Capitol conference in McLean, Va. on May 11.
