U.S. Regulators Urge Better Oversight for Pipeline Cybersecurity

The federal agency now charged with overseeing cybersecurity for U.S. pipelines is ill-equipped to do the job, say two top regulators who want the role given to the Energy Department.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Neil Chatterjee, a Republican, and Richard Glick, a Democrat, wrote in an online article that the Transportation Security Administration can’t keep the pipeline network secure. The two FERC commissioners noted that the TSA has only six full-time workers overseeing more than 2.7 million miles of pipeline, and depends on voluntary cybersecurity standards, rather than mandatory ones.

Instead, Congress should give the job ...