The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) within the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced this week that it is adopting the Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (CSET). The voluntary tool is designed to help transportation authorities identify, detect, protect against, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents.
The CSET provides a systematic, disciplined, and repeatable approach to evaluating an organization’s security posture. CSET is a desktop software tool that guides asset owners and operators through a step-by-step process to evaluate industrial control systems (ICS) and IT network security practices. Users can evaluate their cybersecurity stance using many recognized government and industry standards and recommendations.
In a notice published in the Federal Register, the FHWA noted that according to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), enacted as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, FHWA is required to develop a tool to assist transportation authorities in identifying, detecting, protecting against, responding to, and recovering from cyber incidents. Safety is the top priority of DOT and FHWA. The FHWA routinely works closely and collaboratively…
