U.S. oil and gas companies are ‘still trying to catch up’ on cybersecurity, experts say
Digital systems and internet networks belonging to U.S. oil and gas companies have increasingly come under attack from hackers in recent years, experts tell CyberScoop. The Homeland Security Department received — between 2011 and 2015 — roughly 350 reports from domestic energy companies who were concerned about hackers probing or breaking into their systems, according to the Houston Chronicle, which cited data from the U.S. Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT). In this context, the term “incidents” refers to times people called the agency rather than actual breaches. Nearly 900 “security flaws” were discovered by DHS during that timeframe — a figure which some private sector cybersecurity experts claim appears low. Making sure that industrial control systems, or ICS, are secure has become an especially important mission for Gulf Coast oil, gas and petrochemical companies in addition to the local Coast Guard, the newspaper reported. Industrial equipment often used […]
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