A survey of U.S. oil and gas cybersecurity risk managers indicates that the deployment of cybersecurity measures in the industry isn’t keeping pace with the growth of digitalization in oil and gas operations. In a study from the Ponemon Institute, just 35 percent of respondents rated their organization’s operational technology (OT) cyber readiness as high.
The study surveyed 377 individuals in the United States who are responsible for securing or overseeing cyber risk in the OT environment. With most respondents describing their organization as being in the early to middle stage of maturity with respect to their cyber readiness, 68 percent of respondents said their operations have had at least one security compromise in the past year, resulting in the loss of confidential information or OT disruption.