The Biden administration announced on Friday a new plan to improve the digital defenses of public water systems. The move comes one day after the announcement of a national cybersecurity strategy by the White House, which seeks to broadly improve industry accountability over the cybersecurity of American
The Biden administration announced on Friday a new plan to improve the digital defenses of public water systems.
The water system plan, which recommends a series of novel rules placing more responsibility for securing water facilities at the state-level, follows several high-profile hacking incidents in recent years. The government is acting now because of the urgency of the threat, according to a senior U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official.
But Montgomery said the administration's approach - attaching cybersecurity audits to existing sanitary surveys - is inadequate.
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