Mayorkas: Pipeline attack shows need for security investment across critical infrastructure sectors

The ongoing need to strengthen cybersecurity throughout critical infrastructure sectors is a key lesson from the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said today at a briefing on the government’s coordinated activities to mitigate supply chain issues, as well as CISA’s work to foster public-private collaboration.

“We are bringing our all-of-government effort, at the president’s direction, to not only address the situation that is upon us today…but to really focus on critical infrastructure and what we can do...