Embedding cyber security into the energy ecosystem: An integrated approach to assessing cyber threats and protecting your ASSETS

摘要

Last summer, one of the world's largest oil and natural gas producers discovered that a virus had infiltrated 30,000 of its computer workstations. The company had no choice but to isolate all of its computer systems from outside access. While the infiltration had no impact on the company's production operations, employees were cut off from e-mail and corporate servers for several days. Worse, the virus erased significant data, documents, and e-mail files on roughly 75% of corporate computers. It was a wake-up call to energy companies worldwide: The infrastructure of even the biggest, best-prepared organization is vulnerable to attack.