Unfortunately, the Colonial Pipeline attack is part of a growing escalation of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure around the world. An escalation that has grown out of control which criminal organizations creating affiliate networks, such as the group that conducted the attack on the pipeline. These types of attacks have been going on for quite some time, but most never hit the headlines due to the impact on national security. This is a significant escalation both in target and response, as Colonial opted to shut the pipeline down until they feel they have a good handle on the situation. It's a little-known fact that the equipment in most of this particular industry is made to live for 30 or more years. Additionally, they weren't built with defenses for hostile environments, like the attacks we are seeing from the Internet. Furthermore, updates are nearly impossible for computational reasons and approval required…