01OT, ICS & SCADA
Industrial control systems, SCADA environments, engineering workstations, HMIs, historians, and supporting networks are central to critical operations.
Weak segmentation, legacy systems, exposed services, insecure protocols, or excessive trust can allow compromise to affect industrial environments.
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02Remote Sites & Access
Field locations, contractor connectivity, VPNs, jump hosts, remote management platforms, and telecom links extend the attack surface beyond the main corporate environment.
Weak access controls or exposed remote services can provide attackers with a route into sensitive operational systems.
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03IT/OT Convergence
Operational and enterprise systems increasingly exchange data and rely on shared services, identity platforms, monitoring, and business applications.
Poor segmentation or unmanaged trust relationships can allow a compromise in enterprise IT to create operational consequences.
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04Cloud & Identity
Cloud workloads, identity services, collaboration platforms, and remote operations introduce risks around permissions, configuration, monitoring, and exposed services.
Compromised identities or cloud misconfiguration can affect both enterprise systems and operational dependencies.
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05Third-Party & Contractor Risk
Oil and gas environments rely heavily on OEMs, contractors, integrators, service providers, and technology vendors with varying levels of access.
A supplier or contractor weakness can become an attack route into sensitive enterprise or operational systems.
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06Ransomware & Cyber Incidents
Cyber incidents can disrupt business operations, engineering workflows, logistics, remote access, and operational support systems.
Organisations need clear response, evidence preservation, containment, root-cause analysis, and secure recovery capabilities.
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07Governance & Resilience
Critical infrastructure environments need clear ownership, documented controls, measurable risk management, and coordination between IT, OT, operations, and leadership.
Governance must connect cybersecurity decisions to operational impact, safety, resilience, and business continuity.
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