Cybersecurity

Pipeline Cybersecurity Gaps Must Be Filled, Regulator Says

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A top U.S. energy regulator said gaps in pipeline cybersecurity must be filled after the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline Co. that led to widespread gasoline shortages across parts of the country.

“This is new to those of us in the energy space, this new reality, that private sector companies are now on the front lines of our national defense and national security,” Neil Chatterjee, a commissioner and former chairman at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said in a Bloomberg Television interview.