TSA updates cybersecurity directive for pipeline operators with enhanced flexibility

The Transportation Security Administration has revised and renewed an emergency directive for cybersecurity in the pipeline sector, emphasizing a “performance-based” approach over specific control requirements.

“This revised directive will continue the effort to build cybersecurity resiliency for the nation’s critical pipelines,” TSA said in a release issued today.

TSA said: “Developed with extensive input from industry stakeholders and federal partners, including the [DHS] Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the reissued security directive for critical pipeline companies follows the directive...