US EPA Nixes Cybersecurity Assessments of Water Systems

Agency Acts in Response to Lawsuit by Missouri, Arkansas and Iowa Attorneys General
The Biden administration is backing down from efforts to make cybersecurity a component of safety assessments of water systems, months after federal judges ordered the EPA to halt those efforts. The agency said it would make the security of operational technology a factor in sanitary surveys.

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