What If Oil Companies Apply The Same Tactics For Cybersecurity To Safety?

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorensteffy/2014/06/30/what-if-oil-companies-apply-the-same-tactics-for-cybersecurity-to-safety/

By Loren Steffy
Forbes.com
6/30/2014

The American Petroleum Institute is working with several large U.S. oil 
companies to assemble a team of cybersecurity specialists that would help 
identify and prevent malicious software attacks against the computers that 
control the country’s energy infrastructure. Led by an executive for 
Dallas-based Hunt Oil, the group will serve as a clearinghouse of sorts 
for threats to automated systems.

By improving communication among oil companies, the group, known as the 
Oil and Natural Gas Information Sharing and Analysis Center, hopes to get 
companies working together to thwart attacks that could cripple offshore 
rigs, refineries, pipelines and other equipment.

The approach makes a lot of sense. After all, the potential for hackers to 
target energy company computer systems poses a mutual threat that is best 
addressed when companies combine their efforts.

The oil and gas industry has shown remarkable solidarity when it comes to 
addressing what it perceives as a common outside threat, whether it comes 
from hackers or new regulations the industry considers onerous. It’s been 
far less willing, however, to take such a collaborative approach to 
confront threats from within its own ranks.

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