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Protecting Oil and Gas Industry Infrastructure: Strategies for Resilience

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With the increasing reliance on digital technologies for operational efficiency, this sector has become a prime target for sophisticated cyber and physical threats. To ensure energy security and economic stability, protecting the infrastructure is essential. It requires continuous verification, even for internal users.

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How Will $1.9 Billion for Cybersecurity Protect American Infrastructure?

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Division D: Energy: Title 1: Subtitle B: Cybersecurity.

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Halliburton Confirms Network Disruption After Suspected Cyber Attack

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The incident has raised concerns within the energy sector, as Halliburton plays a crucial role in global oilfield operations, and any disruption to its networks could have far-reaching implications. The potential cyberattack on Halliburton underscores the growing threat to critical infrastructure and companies within the energy sector.

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2022 Cybersecurity predictions

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While finance, healthcare, energy and utilities companies, along with the private sector will increase their cybersecurity spending, the manufacturing industry will have the most significant impact on disruption. Manufacturing is a prime area for disruption with the increase in the number of IoT devices during the pandemic.

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Trends in connected homes in 2021 – Improved security and connectivity

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Doing so saves energy and improves efficiency, allowing you to remotely control kitchen devices, smart AC, smart speakers and displays, lights and other applications. The ability to control your thermostat remotely can greatly influence the quality of life, control expenses, and keep track of energy usage. Homes capable of learning.

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Preparing for IT/OT convergence: Best practices

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Beyond traditional IT operations that utilize servers, routers, PCs and switches, these organizations also rely on OT, such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs), distributed control systems (DCSs) and human machine interfaces (HMIs) to run their physical plants and factories. whether done through the network or locally.

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ICS cyberthreats in 2023 – what to expect

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Organizations based in countries where the political situation does not require addressing the above issues, should still consider the risk factors which affect everyone : The quality of threat detection decreases as IS developers lose some markets, resulting in the expected loss of some of their qualified IS experts.