From: E&E News
Blake Sobczak, Sam Mintz and Peter Behr, E&E News reporters
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Shared among all three agencies — and the energy firms lobbying them — is a sense that cyberthreats to the gas pipeline networks are only set to rise as companies digitize operations and hackers backed by foreign intelligence services grow more intrusive.
“We now are dealing with nation states,” said Dave McCurdy, CEO of the American Gas Association (AGA), at a July 31 cybersecurity conference in New York City. “The government isn’t necessarily organized for this 21st-century paradigm … you’ve got some challenges with the federal agencies, if you’re in industry.”
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