CISA Lacks Key Data On Colonial Pipeline Hack

CISA, the agency charged with heading up federal government cyber defense of domestic networks, is still “waiting for additional technical information on what exactly happened at Colonial,” Acting Director Brandon Wales told Congress this morning.

“We received some information fairly quickly in concert with the FBI,” Wales told the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, but that was days ago.

Four days after the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, which has paralyzed the transport of a significant volume of East Coast fuel supplies, CISA still does not have key information the agency could use to communicate how to detect and mitigate additional cyberattacks using the same ransomware variant that hit Colonial.