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Colonial Pipeline: A Global Day of Reckoning
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SecurityEditor) • May 11, 2021
Gregory Touhill, director, CMU SEI s CERT Division
Gregory Touhill, the retired Air Force general and former federal CISO under President Obama, minces no words when he describes the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack as a global day of reckoning for critical infrastructure protection. It s a global day of reckoning from the standpoint of seeing critical infrastructure such as this go into a gridlock because of ransomware, says Touhill, who recently was appointed director of the CERT division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Further, it s a wake-up call for governments all around the world.
Source: Colonial Pipeline
The FBI and the White House confirmed Monday that the DarkSide ransomware variant was used in the Friday attack that caused disruptions at Colonial Pipeline Co., which operates a 5,500-mile pipeline that supplies fuel, gasoline and other petroleum products throughout large portions of the eastern U.S.
The cybercriminal group behind DarkSide ransomware, however, appeared to try to shift the blame for the incident to an affiliated organization in a posting on its darknet website.
Speaking at the White House on Monday, President Joe Biden noted: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has determined Colonial’s network was infected by ransomware, and it’s a criminal act, obviously. The FBI released details of the attack so others can take steps to prevent being infected. My administration . takes this very seriously. We have efforts underway with the FBI and [Department of Justice] - to disrupt and - and prosecute ransomware criminals. And my administration
Gregory Touhill, former federal chief information security officer and deputy assistant Homeland Security secretary for cyber security operations, seen here at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in 2015 in Washington, DC. Touhill was named director of Carnegie Mellon University’s CERT in April. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
On April 21, Gregory Touhill was named as the new director of the Computer Emergency Readiness Team at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a non-profit, federally funded research center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania that partners with stakeholders in government, industry and academia to study and improve the cybersecurity ecosystem.
Touhill brings a rich and diverse background to the role, having spent years protecting military computer networks as an Air Force brigadier general and later serving as director of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integrations Center at the Department of Homeland Security. He was the
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