Monday Brief for 17 May 2021

DarkSide goes dark; Biden issues a cybersecurity Executive Order; & Maybe it's time for cyber letters of marque

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Update: Colonial Pipeline Attack

What’s New: Oil is flowing again. There’s a new Executive Order (EO). And DarkSide is going dark.

Why This Matters: This attack is going to have lasting ramifications. Many of them good. Some of them potentially very, very bad.

Key Points:

  • On Wednesday, Colonial restarted oil distribution along its East Coast pipeline after the company was able to restore its operational technology (OT) — the hardware, software, tools, and technologies used for pipeline operations.

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    Ray Salemi

    I wonder if it’s time for the federal government to provide a secure cloud environment for municipalities. It’s unlikely that each city and town will be able to keep up with the latest in security procedures on its own.

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      Bradley Alpert

      I'm curious why you think cloud services could be provided better by the federal government than existing private cloud services companies.

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        Ray Salemi

        Either way could work. Both are better than the municipality doing it’s own IT.

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