Officials and water sector professionals warned of ongoing cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the nation’s water and wastewater utility infrastructure at a Senate hearing on escalating cyber attacks against U.S. utilities and water-management organizations.
“I believe that the next Pearl Harbor, the next 9/11 will be cyber, and we are facing a vulnerability in all of our systems, but water is one of the most critical and I think one of the most vulnerable,” said Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), co-chairman of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, on July 21.