This afternoon, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced that its Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials would hold a hearing on Wednesday on “Ensuring the Cybersecurity of America’s Drinking Water Systems’. The witness list includes:
• Scott Dewhirst, Tacoma Water (testimony),
• Kevin Morley, American Water
Works Association (testimony),
and
• Cathy Tucker-Vogel, Kansas Department of Health and Environment (testimony)
It is unusual for witness testimony to be published this far in advance of the scheduled hearing, but I hope that the Subcommittee staff and member’s staffs are taking advantage of the early publication to prepare for some intelligent questions for these three industry representatives.
What is clear from a quick review of the testimony’s is that
these three witnesses are experienced in managing cybersecurity issues. And
that is a valuable point of view for hearings like this. But there is a difference
between ‘managing cybersecurity issues’ and working on the application of
cybersecurity measures to drinking water control systems. It would have been instructive
to add at least one witness with hands-on cybersecurity application experience.
Oh well, this still should be an interesting hearing.
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