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March 28, 2024

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Water stakeholders look for common position on alternative to EPA’s planned cyber approach

By Charlie Mitchell / April 22, 2022

Water industry groups are hoping to “nudge” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency away from plans to use an existing regulatory tool as a means of applying new cybersecurity controls, but have yet to land on a single alternative for making improvements in the sector’s security posture.

EPA’s efforts -- and the covered industry’s responses -- demonstrate challenges associated with trying to ratchet up cybersecurity practices in sectors where it historically has not been a focus.

“We can’t go from zero...


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