Substack Daily Updates – 2-20-25

Today I published the following on Chemical Facility Security News:

• OMB Approves NEPA Regulation Removal IFR – Implementing requirements of EO 14154 – IFR should be published next week – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/02/omb-approves-nepa-regulation-removal-ifr.html

• CSB Updates Incident Reporting Data Page – Cosmetic changes to declutter the page – Previous data behind drop down links – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/02/csb-updates-incident-reporting-data-page.html

• Review - 7 Advisories and an Update Published – 2-20-25 – NCCIC-ICS control system security advisories and a medical device security advisory – Update for advisory for products from Mitsubishi – Short version of article published here (premium content) – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/02/review-7-advisories-and-update.html

• CISA Adds Palo Alto Networks Vulnerability to KEV – 2-20-25 – Vulnerability is part of an exploit chain observed in the wild – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/02/cisa-adds-palo-alto-networks.html

• Short Takes – 2-20-25 – Federal firing recissions (2), Bird flu response, New Horizons crossing solar termination shock – 2024 YR4 less likely to impact – Musk and ISS future – EO 14213 & EO 14214 – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/02/short-takes-2-20-25.html

I posted the following to my social media feeds (X, Mastodon, Substack, and LinkedIn):

• In reply to an NTSB job posting on LinkedIn, I made the following comment: “I have the highest respect for the NTSB and the work that it does, but why would anyone want to hire on with the federal government now? More downsizing is sure to come and last hired will be the first fired as we have seen over the last two weeks. Good luck filling these necessary positions.”