Easterly, Southern Company’s Fanning stress need to ‘normalize cyber risks’ for public in blog marking Colonial Pipeline anniversary

CISA Director Jen Easterly and Southern Company leader Tom Fanning issued a message on the second anniversary of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack hitting the news and causing a significant economic disruption, emphasizing the need to bolster resilience, secure technology products and other steps.

“[W]e need to normalize cyber risks for the general public with the recognition that cyber-attacks are a reality for the foreseeable future,” Easterly and Fanning wrote in a May 7 blog post. Fanning, president and...