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Joe Biden’s Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo claimed that cyberattacks like the one that hit the Colonial pipeline last week are “here to stay.”
“This is what businesses now have to worry about,” Raimondo said to CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
“Unfortunately, these sorts of attacks are becoming more frequent. They’re here to stay, and we have to work in partnership with business to secure networks to defend ourselves against these attacks.”
“As it relates to Colonial, the President was briefed yesterday, and it’s an all hands on deck effort right now,” she said, adding that the Biden/Harris administration is working with Colonial and state and local officials to get the pipeline back online “as quickly as possible.”
The 5,500-mile Colonial Pipeline, the largest in the U.S. which carries 45% of the fuel used by the East Coast, was shut down on Friday after the company’s operators couldn’t mitigate a ransomware attack against the pipeline’s systems.
Colonial Pipeline released a statement on Monday assuring consumers that segments of the pipeline have been brought back online in an “incremental process.”
Colonial Pipeline continues to dedicate vast resources to restoring pipeline operations quickly and safely. Segments of our pipeline are being brought back online in a stepwise fashion, in compliance with relevant federal regulations and in close consultation with the Department of Energy, which is leading and coordinating the Federal Government’s response.
Restoring our network to normal operations is a process that requires the diligent remediation of our systems, and this takes time. In response to the cybersecurity attack on our system, we proactively took certain systems offline to contain the threat, which temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of our IT systems. To restore service, we must work to ensure that each of these systems can be brought back online safely.
While this situation remains fluid and continues to evolve, the Colonial operations team is executing a plan that involves an incremental process that will facilitate a return to service in a phased approach. This plan is based on a number of factors with safety and compliance driving our operational decisions, and the goal of substantially restoring operational service by the end of the week. The Company will provide updates as restoration efforts progress.
Given Joe Biden’s hostility toward fossil fuels, such as canceling the Keystone XL Pipeline and pausing the leasing of federal lands for oil and gas development, one could imagine that this ransomware attack is exactly the kind of “crisis” the Democrats want to justify implementing their radical Green New Deal proposal, which is why they’re “here to stay.”
It has been a long week for old Joe, who miraculously ended his week with an embarrassing dementia-riddled breakdown of the Administration’s inevitable mishandling of Amtrak.
