As the latest technological trends compete to revolutionize the market, industrialists are tuning and fine-tuning their offshore and onshore facilities, and higher planes of their organization to interconnectivity, transparency and what not latest digital trends, the importance of cyber security flips a non-negligible priority of concern.

A cyber threat in the Oil and Gas control systems network can impact severity levels in terms of human safety, tangible assets, and the environment in the form of spills, releases, and explosions. Thereby, we see that to build successful Industry 4.0 initiatives in Oil and Gas, security can no means take a back seat.

Many studies show that cyber breaches in today’s downstream industry of connected OT and IT often occur through passive OT systems. Various models of cyber-attacks are seen including spyware, malware attacks on safety systems, service denial blocking the flow of control action, ransomware attacks blocking organizations out of their core systems etc.

As more and more IT, ICS, OT and IoT devices are connected, the larger the network and the greater stands the risks of unlocked doors. To enable a successful adaptation of a secure and robust Industry 4.0 in O&G, an integrated security strategy can follow the 3 steps below: