FDD’s Montgomery sees EPA resource constraints as potential barrier to stepping up water sector enforcement efforts

The Environmental Protection Agency needs to be better resourced to raise the bar for cybersecurity in the water sector, according to Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who called the agency’s new effort to step up drinking water system enforcement efforts a positive step for sector risk management.

EPA released an enforcement alert on Monday detailing cyber compliance issues in drinking water systems across the United States and announcing commitments to increase the number of planned...