Cyber security

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January 09, 2025
Europe’s oil and gas industry is increasingly leveraging AI to optimize operations across its value chain as the region faces growing energy security concerns, according to a new research report published by Information Services Group (ISG).
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September 03, 2024
The Houston-based company continues to evaluate the nature and scope of the breach and has activated its cybersecurity response plan, it said in a statement Tuesday. It initially disclosed the attack last month and has notified law enforcement officials.
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August 23, 2024
Halliburton Co., the world’s biggest provider of fracing services, said it’s alerting customers and other stakeholders after an unauthorized third party gained access to some of its systems.
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August 19, 2024
These platforms will enable SLB to achieve comprehensive security across its network, cloud and edge platforms, enabling thousands of domain and AI users on SLB’s Delfi digital platform to collaborate in a safe and secure environment.
Article
March 2024
As the energy industry undergoes digital transformation, cyber threats are becoming a material, financial and operational risk. Convergence of operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) has opened new pathways and attack surfaces for malicious actors to exploit, posing serious concerns for stability and security of energy infrastructure.
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December 2023
The oil and gas industry is working to build resilience, as the increasingly-targeted sector becomes more mature in its response to cyber threats.
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December 03, 2023
Once the Cyber Resilience Act is in place, manufacturers of hardware and software will have to implement cybersecurity measures across the entire lifecycle of the product, from the design and development, to after the product is placed on the market.
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October 16, 2023
While at SPE Offshore Europe last month in Aberdeen, Scotland, World Oil had a chance to visit with two of DNV’s section heads handling various aspects of the digital side of upstream oil and gas. What follows are some highlights of that visit and specific projects that DNV is undertaking.
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June 20, 2023
Together, DNV and Nixu will safeguard demanding IT and industrial control system environments and build business resilience in energy and other sectors. A combined team of more than 500 cyber security experts will provide a market-leading portfolio of consulting and managed services to manage cyber risks.
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June 07, 2023
A majority (59%) of the 600 energy professionals surveyed by DNV say their organization is investing more in cybersecurity in 2023 compared with last year, acknowledging that cyber-attacks on the industry are a question of ‘when’ not ‘if’.
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May 15, 2023
The CYBER MANAGED Prepared notation provides a road map to build cyber-managed vessels. Concretely, with the BV Cyber Managed Prepared Notation system, it means that Express 101 will be ready to receive the CYBER MANAGED notation to protect its on-board computers against unauthorized access, misuse, modification, destruction or improper disclosure of the information generated.
Article
March 2023
It has become apparent that securing the industry against cyber criminality is a priority, to mitigate the existential threat to business functionality. There are a multitude of actions that operators can take to achieve battle-readiness in this era of unprecedented instability.
Article
March 2023
DNV outlines how energy companies must address the increasingly common, complex and creative cyber threats facing their organizations.
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December 15, 2022
The white paper provides accessible advice for overcoming hurdles in designing, building and operating OT security programs. These recommendations include setting goals and responsibilities to determine vulnerabilities, selecting countermeasures and governance systems, implementing controls, and embedding assurance schemes.
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October 2022
As companies adopt new technologies to make business more effective and efficient, new risks emerge, and old risks evolve. This requires great cybersecurity that has tools and processes built to adapt to change with minimal effort.
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November 20, 2022
Offshore U.S. oil and natural gas installations are “at significant risk” of cyber-attack, according to a federal watchdog that warned of a potential disaster on par with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout.
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September 27, 2022
Uniwise Offshore, Thailand’s leading offshore support vessel (OSV) company, is enhancing cyber-security standards across its OSV fleet by adopting technology from Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications. With reliable connectivity delivered by Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress, Fleet Secure Unified Threat Management (UTM) provides Uniwise with end-to-end functionality to protect its network from cyber-attacks and intrusion via infected devices.
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August 09, 2022
The majority of companies across the U.S. oil and gas industry are at risk of a successful cyber breach according to BreachBits, a cyber risk rating and monitoring company that evaluates and tests organizations from a hacker’s perspective.
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