Industry, policy pros say infrastructure plan must address cybersecurity for transportation and other sectors

Legislative efforts are about to get underway on President Biden’s infrastructure renewal plan and cyber professionals are urging lawmakers to ensure cybersecurity isn’t a missing piece, while hailing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ attention to transportation security in a recent speech.

“Secretary Mayorkas smartly highlighted the need to ‘increase the cyber resilience of other transportation systems -- from rail to pipelines -- that fuel so much of our economy,’” Tenable Security’s vice president of government affairs James Hayes said.

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