What water utilities need to know about cybersecurity compliance

As federal enforcement tightens and states begin stepping in with their own cybersecurity mandates, water and wastewater utilities face a looming wave of hard compliance deadlines, compounded by recent cyber attacks on state water utilities. Key takeaways While the EPA’s national sanitary-survey mandate stalled in court, the agency is aggressively using existing authority, technical guidance, and enforcement alerts to inspect cyber gaps. Community water systems serving 3,301 to 49,999 people, the vast majority of U.S. …