Stakeholders mull state of collaboration as TSA readies new directives for transportation sectors

Industry sources are hoping to see more flexibility and collaboration built into the Transportation Security Administration’s upcoming revisions to cybersecurity directives for key sectors, which since last year have been regulated by mandatory cyber orders issued by TSA under emergency authorities.

“The TSA directives feel prescriptive and directive, because they are,” commented Megan Brown, a partner at the Wiley Rein law firm. “Companies are being mandated to take certain actions, and they are spending a lot of resources to comply,...