What Water Utilities Need to Know About Cybersecurity Compliance
Tenable, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Tenable maps the tightening compliance landscape facing water and wastewater utilities.
As federal enforcement tightens and states introduce their own cybersecurity mandates, water and wastewater utilities face a wave of hard compliance deadlines, compounded by recent attacks on state water systems.
Tenable covers the current regulatory position, including the EPA's national sanitary-survey mandate that stalled in court and the state-level requirements filling the gap. The post sets out what utilities should be doing to prepare regardless of which requirement lands first.
It addresses the resourcing reality of small utility operators. The guidance is aimed at utility operations and compliance staff.