Colonial Pipeline posted cybersecurity job opening before attack

The job posting for Colonial Pipeline’s ‘manager of cybersecurity’ role was still live on its website on Wednesday, five days into the company’s response to a cyberattack.

Colonial Pipeline, the United States firm at the centre of a major ransomware attack that has led to worsening petrol shortages and fuel hikes across the country, posted a job opening for a cybersecurity manager weeks before the hack forced the pipeline offline. The job posting for Colonial’s “manager of cybersecurity” was still live on its website on Wednesday, five days into the company’s response to the cyberattack. In the posting, Colonial described the Alpharetta, Georgia-based position as being “accountable for managing a team of cyber security certified subject matter experts and specialists including but not limited to network security engineers, SCADA & field controls network engineers and a cyber security architect”.