If they identify a risk, their job is to contain it immediately. So we have what we call "stop work authority" at Colonial any of our employees has the opportunity to use it. We knew immediately that there was an issue, and we are programmed to only operate the pipeline if we feel that it's in safe operating condition: it won't cause any harm to employees, the communities we serve or to the environment. Let me take you back to the early morning of May 7. On why the company shut down the gas over a computer system attack But we have lots and months and months of work ahead of us. So we got the critical IT structure put back together. In our case, our focus initially was to get the pipeline back up and running safely and as soon as we possibly could. And I think if you talk to anybody who suffered from one of these criminal cyberattacks, they would tell you that it takes months and months and months to restore all your IT infrastructure.
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