Calgary-based oil sands developer Suncor Energy and cybersecurity provider Check Point Software are among 18 energy and technology-related firms that have vowed to improve their cybersecurity resiliency at the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The announcement that the companies have agreed to the Cyber Resilience Pledge to enhance cybersecurity throughout their systems was made this morning from Davos, Switzerland, where the annual meeting of the discussion group is taking place.
“The action is in response to major security breaches in the past two years that have highlighted the vulnerability of critical infrastructure,” the forum said in a news release.
Separately the federal ministry of Natural Resources announced support for a cybersecurity incident response playbook (see below).
One high-profile energy sector breach was last year’s ransomware attack on the IT systems of Colonial Pipelines in the U.S., which forced the company to temporarily shut operations. That caused huge lineups for gasoline across the U.S. east coast. More recently, the forum notes, there have been cyberattacks on the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) oil refining hub and on…
