As the number of attacks targeting ICS increases, adversaries for oil and gas companies are evolving, according to the latest threat report by Dragos.
As automation continues to evolve, the utilities sector is finding that encryption of their network data is a critical to safeguard against cyber-attacks. And, as organisations across the globe continue to prioritise cybersecurity, the threat landscape continues to expand. Although good progress is being made, it is evident that critical network vulnerabilities are still being left unprotected.
This is particularly the case in the oil and gas sector, which is the latest to enter the cyber security spotlight according to the latest threat report by security firm Dragos that highlighted that the sector is a valuable target for adversaries seeking to exploit industrial control systems (ICS) environments. The report revealed a new activity group targeting the industry, bringing the total number of tracked ICS-targeted activity groups to nine, five of which directly target oil and gas organisations. What’s more, the increased deployment of automation within the oil and gas industry to manage…
