{"id":5354,"date":"2024-03-20T13:51:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T17:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wradrb.org\/?p=5354"},"modified":"2024-03-20T13:51:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T17:51:57","slug":"epa-is-convening-a-task-force-to-address-cyber-security-risk-to-water-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wradrb.org\/epa-is-convening-a-task-force-to-address-cyber-security-risk-to-water-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA is Convening a Task Force to Address Cyber Security Risk to Water Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Christian Vasquez with <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/\">Cyberscoop<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/epa-water-threats-governors\/\">reports<\/a> that the White House and the US Enviropnmemtal Protection Agency (EPA) have issued new warnings about cyber attacks on water systems:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The White House sent a stark warning to U.S. governors on Monday that \u201cdisabling\u201d cyberattacks targeting water systems are occurring throughout the United States, in what is the Biden administration\u2019s latest plea to state authorities to direct more resources and attention to protecting water utilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\u00a0their letter, the White House and the EPA invited state officials to a\u00a0Thursday meeting\u00a0to discuss how to improve digital defenses for the more than 150,000 utilities in the U.S.<strong> The EPA is also setting up a water sector cybersecurity task force that will outline some of the biggest challenges the sector faces and develop strategies to defend against the threat.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Disabling cyberattacks are striking water and wastewater systems throughout the United States. These attacks have the potential to disrupt the critical lifeline of clean and safe drinking water, as well as impose significant costs on affected communities,&#8217; National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan wrote in the\u00a0letter.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/epa-water-threats-governors\/\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Vasquez with Cyberscoop reports that the White House and the US Enviropnmemtal Protection Agency (EPA) have issued new warnings about cyber attacks on water systems: &#8220;The White House sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wradrb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wradrb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wradrb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wradrb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wradrb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wradrb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5358,"href":"https:\/\/www.wradrb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions\/5358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wradrb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wradrb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wradrb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wradrb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}